The following is an image of Christian’s and Kelly’s last chemistry experiment from RealScience-4-Kids. They set the experiment up on Saturday, the day before the picture was taken. In this picture, they are sitting waiting for breakfast on Sunday morning (note the bible in front of Kelly she is reading to get ready for Sunday morning meeting. After meeting, the kids took down the chromatography stripes for analysis and recording in their experiment log.


RealScience-4-Kids chromatography experiment

Lorena’s Aunt Mina came over for dinner on Sunday after meeting along with Tony and Martha. Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah came along, too. After we ate a wonderful dinner, Kelly and Christian both played the piano for us and quoted their verses. Kelly has memorized Psalm 91 in both English and Spanish while Christian has done the same with Psalm 8. I am going to have to record their verses and their music on the camcorder while they are still well practiced.


I finally got Heather’s computer up on the internet and running like it should after quite a battle on Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile, Lorena has been studying for the College Algebra test she will take on Tuesday or Wednesday. She has been working very hard and had most of the load with the lunch for the wonderful lunch she made for everyone yesterday (chicken, mashed potatoes, salad, asparagus, yum!). We took some pictures of the whole affair and will put them up in the next day or so as I have time.

I have been thinking about the home school plan for next year. I have pretty much identified all the subjects we will cover and have specific curricula for all of them except Spanish. I will try to buy something for the Spanish program while I am in Mexico. As for the other stuff, here are the items I have identified:

  • Grammar: Easy Grammar
  • History: Sonlight
  • Literature: Sonlight
  • Math: Singapore
  • Science: RealScience-4-Kids and Sonlight
  • Music: Piano lessons with Jill Hickenlooper
  • PE: Swimming/Tennis lessons
  • Writing: Igniting Your Writing
  • Spanish: To be determined