tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post7233380474432143528..comments2008-05-14T10:06:59.409-04:00Amynoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-9054087955019938242008-05-14T10:06:00.000-04:002008-05-14T10:06:00.000-04:002008-05-14T10:06:00.000-04:00Great post! Thanks for the ideas! <BR/><BR/>We really enjoyed our study of electricity this year. My dd enjoyed making an alarm that sounded everytime someone opened her bedroom door! We made it using foil, wire and a battery, among other things. It was fun, but the alarm got a little annoying after a while. :-)Debbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09294697183610033724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-68816095700228522002008-05-12T07:56:00.000-04:002008-05-12T07:56:00.000-04:002008-05-12T07:56:00.000-04:00Okay... so I feel a *little* better about the critters around here. Our current science project, and thus our favorite for the moment, is our garden. We're learning all about different plants and trying to help them grow. And now we're learning about the bugs that like to eat the plants we're trying to grow. Hmmm... I'm NOT happy with those critters.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the great post!mommyofmanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15721817441780986975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-6119962327348123092008-05-11T10:46:00.000-04:002008-05-11T10:46:00.000-04:002008-05-11T10:46:00.000-04:00Loved this article! My 3 love bugs. Please enter us in the giveaway. <BR/><BR/>Our favorite science activity this week has been growing bean plants in an empty peanutbutter jar and seeing which ones grow fastest. We used black bean, kidney bean , and pinto bean and the black bean won hands down. Next we'll be transplanting it to our garden once the weather is a bit warmer. Yippee!Tristanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055304813400323669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-4521125525078522392008-05-10T23:41:00.000-04:002008-05-10T23:41:00.000-04:002008-05-10T23:41:00.000-04:00Are we disqualified cuz we are members of HOTM? :) If not, we enjoyed blowing up a real volcano with green ash in our garage and on our kitchen table. Hindsight proved that the kitchen table was a really bad idea, but it was neat to see the ash crater even though it was toxic. ;) LOL<BR/><BR/>- SprittibeeHeatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973406635920080972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-57910979291840965042008-05-10T16:24:00.000-04:002008-05-10T16:24:00.000-04:002008-05-10T16:24:00.000-04:00Our son (9) loves science and inventions. Just this past week we have had fun making a radio our of toilet paper rolls, aluminum foil, batteries, wires, and a few other things. We don't hear a radio station yet, but we do hear something. Hopefully we will be able to tweak it and jam out to some music...our daughter is ready to dance away!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your article,<BR/>Christin H.charrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10850183605554625376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-54727140519244669722008-05-10T08:23:00.000-04:002008-05-10T08:23:00.000-04:002008-05-10T08:23:00.000-04:00Cannot get enough of insects in our house. We are working our way through a life cycle study and so far we've done butterflies and praying mantids. I have to say that the praying mantids were probably the most facinating and enjoyable for the children and the most stressful for mom! In trying to feed our little carnivores we ended up adding another study on the life cycle of the fruit fly! The chain of learning never ends does it?<BR/>;0 )Karin Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14516662405528660516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-37939688143545706362008-05-10T01:09:00.000-04:002008-05-10T01:09:00.000-04:002008-05-10T01:09:00.000-04:00Sounds great!<BR/><BR/>One project we did this week (kindergarten) was putting food colouring into the water in a vase & putting a white tulip in it. The whole flower sucked up water, sending blue food colouring throughout the flower...right to the tips of the petals. My 5 year old thought it was too cool!Queen to my 3 Boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15835325901326490949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-74716835757687711042008-05-09T15:21:00.000-04:002008-05-09T15:21:00.000-04:002008-05-09T15:21:00.000-04:00Cool! So many details. So the magazine is on-line and free? Am I getting this right? I would love to have an ant farm or any other thing. We totally enjoyed our Butterfly Farm -- that's a science related activity right? Actually, my all time favorite recent Science event was the Bluebell Hike. We went for a 1.5 mile hike at a local park with the largest Bluebell stand in Virginia. The whole forest is full of wild bluebells. It was truly beautiful. I even posted pictures on my blog! Amy B http://homeschoolblogger.com/bowofbronzetikvah73http://www.blogger.com/profile/00952198097668424498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-37052007285013013282008-05-09T10:06:00.000-04:002008-05-09T10:06:00.000-04:002008-05-09T10:06:00.000-04:00We haven't done too much 'science' with our little ones yet (5 and 2), but we do enjoy reading 'sciencey' books together, about butterflies, volcanoes, the human body etc. I think they'd have so much fun with these, they are very fascinated with insects on our nature walks (or when they are in the house!).Jennifer Bogarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01726820574902039342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-45314094586188861752008-05-09T05:37:00.000-04:002008-05-09T05:37:00.000-04:002008-05-09T05:37:00.000-04:00What a great article! We will be trying out some of the insect traps this weekend, as both my 4-year-old & 2-year-old are very into bugs right now! The older one has been pleading for an ant farm and a butterfly habitat for weeks! (We would love the giveaway!)<BR/><BR/>Last week we checked out several books from the library and completed the butterfly lapbook at Homeschool Share. It also helped that my husband just happened to catch a painted lady butterfly at lunch the day we started the study!Celly Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06607978138662352563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-23707702395825582132008-05-08T20:04:00.000-04:002008-05-08T20:04:00.000-04:002008-05-08T20:04:00.000-04:00What a fun article. My oldest is our resident insect and scorpion expert. One of my favorite science activities is to take our microscope out onto the back porch and check out all the tiny flowers that we find on nondescript plants and weeds in the lawn.Sebastianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009107720601931341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-18374920491334814502008-05-08T13:40:00.000-04:002008-05-08T13:40:00.000-04:002008-05-08T13:40:00.000-04:00I would love to win the insect kits!! :)<BR/><BR/>Most of our science happens right in our back yard. We go on a lot of nature walks. We also have learned alot about birds by putting bird feeders up right by our windows and charting which birds come to our house. We then check out books from the library on those specific birds to learn more. :)Candace Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452782364488963501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-75312141129761479862008-05-08T11:58:00.000-04:002008-05-08T11:58:00.000-04:002008-05-08T11:58:00.000-04:00Wow, makes me what to stop doing SPace and do insects!!<BR/>Our Science experiment was about craters and the moon. We made a large cookie sheet of plaster of paris. We choose different sized rocks to represent meteors and ds threw them at our moon. Then we measured how large or small the craters were.<BR/>We love hands on activities.sunshineperrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05320176392705922943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-85155042868864327392008-05-08T09:12:00.000-04:002008-05-08T09:12:00.000-04:002008-05-08T09:12:00.000-04:00Good info. I'll definitely have to incorporate some of your ideas into our insect study when we get to it. Also, please enter me in your giveaway! <BR/><BR/>We really enjoyed our study of light earlier this year. We made a sundial, placed it outside and marked the shadow every hour. We also demonstrated how light is made up of many colors by coloring a color wheel and sticking it to a table-top fan and spinning the colors until they blended into white.Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18408507367501196222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-78927518086487548992008-05-08T08:29:00.000-04:002008-05-08T08:29:00.000-04:002008-05-08T08:29:00.000-04:00Great post & giveaway!!! We will definitely be trying out some of these traps over the summer!Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13300138525442271956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646552345065536552.post-81187173012904847332008-05-08T07:56:00.000-04:002008-05-08T07:56:00.000-04:002008-05-08T07:56:00.000-04:00I love this article - thanks for the insect catching info! We are studying insects right now, so this comes just in time.<BR/><BR/>We are really enjoying our Green Hour Challenges right now. We recently finished studying worms and performed an earthworm dissection. We learned so much about these wiggly creatures; they are amazing creations.<BR/><BR/>~Andrea<BR/>http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/andijeane/<BR/>andijeane (at) yahoo (dot) comandijeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07661583602799129279noreply@blogger.com