Electricity

We have been studying Ben Franklin and electricity/magnetism in our unit study at home. Ironically, Haley is also studying electricity and magnetism at school. So. . .she had twice the fun making a circuit board, parallel circuit, and many more experiments! She is in the middle of Ben and Me. The one problem I am finding with our unit studies is fitting the book studies in. It seems like we get finished with a unit, but are no where close to being finished with the literature. There are just too many activities they give to go along with each novel. I guess I'll just have to start picking out just a few activities for the books so that we can complete them on time.

This weekend, all four of our scheduled soccer games were canceled due to wet conditions. The girls spent a lot of time reading. Haley got started on Little House in the Big Woods and Little House on the Prairie. We have a mother/daughter book chat in November on the sixth book in the series and she thinks she has to read them in order! Madeleine's been reading Magic Treehouse books.

Brian's working on finishing out the garage and Hunter's been stuck to his side like glue! He is soooo happy just watching his daddy work :)

I have been putting the finishing touches on the plans for Bubblegum day! The kids are so excited! Of course, I have to "test" the gum out beforehand to make sure it will work for our experiments. :) LOL