Bathbombs, Bouncy Balls, and Beads!

Math:

This week, I (Kaylee) started my 7th grade assessments (to see how much I knew for 7th grade math). I (Landen) continued my 4th grade assessments. I (Emberly) did more Mathseeds and learned about the numbers 11 and 12.

Language Arts:

This week we read more of our book, Becoming Muhammad Ali. We did our copywork. I (Landen) wrote a story from a prompt from one of Kaylee book, Writing Magic by Gail Carson Levine. I (Kaylee) continued working on some of my stories. I also wrote a story on Scratch called Trust and Hope. I entered my story into a Scratch Writing competition. I am now waiting for the results to come out. I hope I win! I (Emberly) read Green Eggs and Ham to Grandma when she came and visited us.

Science:

Spa Chemistry (Kaylee):

This week I made some more bathbombs!

One of my bath bombs was too soft and crumbled. I turned it into bath salts.

I colored them blue and scented them with grapefruit essential oil. Grandma came and visited us the day that I made them, so I gave her one!

Elementary Science (Landen):

This week I got out one of my old science kits and made some bouncy balls!

I put the crystals into the mold and held it in a cup of water for a few minutes. Then I pulled it out and let it dry. It was so much fun!

Technology:

Digital Photography (Kaylee):

This week I went outside and took some pictures. Since it is still cold outside and the leaves haven't grown back yet, it was hard to find something beautiful to take a picture of. Still, I found some interesting things to take pictures of!

This is a cool weed growing against one of our garden boxes.

There's a scary monster in our backyard! Nope, just a tree. ;)

Upon closer inspection of what looked like the empty bush that used to be beautiful... I found (most likely poisonous) berries growing there!

This was taken by me lying on the grass looking up.

A pretty sun glare!

    

This is another picture that was taken by me lying down on the grass.

Digital Art (Landen):

I started to make a platformer on Scratch. It isn't finished yet, but I will continue to work on it in the coming weeks. In case you don't know, a platformer is a game where you use the arrow keys to move through the levels and jump over obstacles. You can check out some really cool platformers here (these aren't made by me): https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/133942259  https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/305468636

Elective:

Culinary Arts (Kaylee):

This week mom, dad, and I had a competition to see who could make the best cake mug. We chose 3 different recipes and made them. Then, we topped them with ice cream and tried them. We rated them 1-10 stars. I rated 8, dad rated 7, and mom rated 9.

P.E. (Landen):

This week we used our Christmas money to buy some new scooters!

Mine is blue, Kaylee's is purple.

We also bought new helmets, then went outside and took them for a spin!

Arts and Crafts (Emberly):

This week I rolled some strips of paper into little beads and make bracelets out of them!

I made some pink rolls. I made two bracelets out of it. Kaylee made some purple rolls. She let me use her extra purple roll, so I decided to put it on the end of my 2nd bracelet.

Kaylee made some pink beads and purple ones, so she made a necklace. We used this website's tutorial. Scroll down and you will see the video tutorial!