Thursday, January 14:Discoveries and Practical Play

Today's activities started with finding rainbows in prisms... and getting them out on paper.

We found it a bit harder than we did with the glass of water and mirror.

Wonder why? Made some interesting discoveries while thinking about Euler's Polyhedron Formula.

Then we made fire-starters with melted wax and pine cones.

Katie helped Quentin draw...

T is for...

Table...

Tomahawk and Tepee.

Meanwhile Sam determined area of irregular shapes and added dates to his timeline. Then he played a phonics bingo with James. James also wrote some about a race car and illustrated it. Alex worked on his usual language arts, math and wrote some more about the Rosetta Stone.

Then Quentin and I played store.

By this time it was chores time, which then led to my making dinner.

Dinner can be tricky at our house. Not only are there the usual keeping a budget constraints that most of us have, but we also have two who can't have milk products or wheat products, one who doesn't eat meat, and two who are incredibly picky. So, we end up having to make two dinners usually. Tonight I made a cream of turnip soup (the non-milk eaters don't eat turnips anyway), one ham, cheese and potato casserole and one mushroom, onion and potato casserole. I basically take a scalloped potato recipe and add whatever suits us to it and it works out just fine.

I just love soups and casseroles in the winter because they

warm the soul as well as the stomach.