Showing posts with label thomas edison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thomas edison. Show all posts

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Whine, and Bug's Thomas Edison movies

Whine and vent- My tooth has been killing me for a few days- finally I went into the dentist- and I have an absessed tooth. UGGG! my face is all swollen up huge. He put me on antibiotics and said I need to go to a specialist for a root canal. The soonest the specialist can get me in is the day after memorial day!

For Micah's beyond FIAR assignment he was told to "reenact a historical event" (In the story of Thomas Edison- Thomas pretends he is Columbus and Commodore Perry, so Micah was supposed to pretend to be someone in history- This is what he came up with instead!) So here's his reenactment- lol- a Battle in World War II.

Another Assignment he had last week was to formulate a business plan. Micah's had this plan for a "walking stick business" for a while now, and even sold a walking stick...(thanks Dad!) So he wrote up his business plan, then had to come up with advertising for his business. He made a flyer, business cards, and a commercial. Though I think he's revised his plans, and has all his neighborhood friends coming over to make wands instead- it's easier to find wand wood than walking stick wood ;)

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Hatching Day!

For school each spring hatch some chicks. This year it's Pheasant chicks. Come on over if you are close, and you can watch some hatch. So far we have 19 and counting, there's at least 20 more eggs that will hatch today or tomorrow.

Bug has been studying Thomas Edison and one of the lessons is about hatching, so it was perfect timing. Doodle is reading Just Plain Fancy by Patricia Polocao- one of our favorite authors. In his story some Amish girls find an egg and put it under their chicken- it ends up being a Peacock egg, and they are worried he is too "fancy" to be Amish. A cute story!



Roo LOVES his "chickies" and likes to watch him hatch.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Thomas Edison chapters 3-5

Bug is continuing his studies with Thomas Edison. On Tuesday he was given the assignment of designing a landing pod for an egg that would be dropped off the playhouse. He had to draw 5 ideas, and build 2 of them. Today was the drop day. He designed 1 that was wrapped in big bubble wrap and taped shut. The other one he used a hot chocolate box, and put some cardboard pieces in to contain the egg to the middle with a little bit of bubble wrap padding. Maybe bubble wrap was cheating ;)












But his eggs both survived the drop, and even survived a toss across the yard as hard as he could.