Crunch Labs Project: The Coanda Effect

 We did the project Air Ball/Coanda Effect from Crunch Labs today.

https://www.crunchlabs.com/products/air-ball

The Bernoulli Principle was also discussed in the video.  

This project worked great, just like all the Crunch Labs projects.  Always excellent instructions and excellent quality kits.

Here's the video of our project:

Homeschool Day: 12/30 Back to the Grind

 The fourth grader started back up again, but the 12th grader is on her own schedule, since she takes college classes.

4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• Explore Native American Cultures!
• Sign of the Beaver
• 100 Bible Stories

Sonlight Readers 3 + LA

• Third Grade Detectives and the Clue of the Left-Handed Envelope
• All About Spelling 2
• Handwriting without Tears

Math

• We reviewed multiplication by 4s and 5s
• The Best of Times
• We played the board game Prime Climb

Abeka 4th Grade Science

• What Makes a Habitat

Piano Practice

• He's now learning chords

Sand Art Project and Driver's License Test

 4th Grader

We read his Sonlight books and we did the Sand Art Kit.

It's called Create Your Own Sand Art and we bought it on Amazon for about 12 bucks.  You take different colors of sand and fill containers to create patterns.  He really enjoyed the project.  We turned on relaxation music while we filled the containers with different colors of sand and he really enjoyed it.

12th Grader

She took and passed her driver's license test.  She also got her final grades back from her college courses.  All As.

Homeschool Day 12/11

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• Sign of the Beaver
• 100 Bible Stories

Sonlight Readers 3 + LA

• Third Grade Detectives and the Clue of the Left-Handed Envelope
• All About Spelling 2
• Handwriting without Tears Cursive

Math

• Schoolhouse Rock Three is a Magic Number
• Multiplication by 2s and 3s
• Math dice

Science 

• We finished the Ocean Animal Atlas
• We looked up different sea animals that looked interesting and watched videos of them on YouTube

Extras

• Alfred's Piano - he has now officially started playing chords

12th Grader

• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• Shakespeare's MacBeth
• Getting ready for her driver's license test
• Recovering from finals from her college courses

Crunch Labs: Duck Game

https://www.crunchlabs.com/products/duck-game

This is not the best picture in the world, but today, we built the Crunch Labs Project "Duck Game."

Crunch Labs is an excellent subscription box for ages 8-13 that comes once a month and features a different engineering project each month.  It was created by NASA engineer Mark Rober. https://www.crunchlabs.com/  The quality of these projects is excellent.  The instructions are easy to understand and everything always works.  

He has a Build Box subscription for high schoolers/adults also with more complicated projects (called Hack Pack).  We definitely plan to get that when the 4th grader is doing high school physics.

Here's a video of the Duck Game that my 4th grader built today.  In the video, my son is using a different Crunch Labs projects (a disc shooter) to knock down the ducks.

There's Crunch Labs projects all over our dinner table today.  I need to move them if we're going to eat dinner.  

Homeschool Day 12/9

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• 100 Bible Stories
• We finished Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims

Sonlight Readers 3 + LA

• All About Spelling 2
• Handwriting without Tears Cursive
• Third Grade Detectives and the Clue of the Left-Handed Envelope

Math

• Review of multiplication tables 0, 1, 2 and 3
• We put together multiplication problems x3 with cuisinaire rods
• Schoolhouse Rock's Three is a Magic Number
• Beast Academy

Science

• Ocean Animal Atlas

12th Grader

• She has finals at the college for her dual enrollment classes
• Update: she ended the semester with a 4.0 (both classes 100%)

Homeschool Day 12/5

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• 100 Bible Stories
• Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims

Sonlight Readers 3 + LA

• Third Grade Detectives: The Clue of the Left-Handed Envelope
• All About Spelling 2
• Handwriting without Tears Cursive

Math

• Beast Academy
• Multiplication by 2s
• We played the card game Sleeping Queens

Science

• We finished National Geographic's Animal Encylopedia

Extras

• Artistic Pursuits
• We are reading one Christmas picture book a night from the library

12th Grader

• Shakespeare's MacBeth
• ASL Basics
• Mathusee Stewardship
• Dual enrollment classes at the college

Homeschool Day 12/4

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims
• 100 Bible Stories

Sonlight Readers 3 + LA

• We finished Prairie School
• All About Spelling 2
• Handwriting without Tears Cursive

Math

• Beast Academy
• We reviewed multiplication by 0, 1 and 2

Science

• Ocean Animal Atlas
• National Geographic's Animal Encyclopedia

Extras

• Piano practice

12th Grader

• Shakespeare's MacBeth
• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• Dual enrollment classes at the college

Homeschool Day 12/2

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• 100 Bible Stories
• My First Catechism
• Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims

Sonlight Readers 3 + LA

• Prairie School
• Handwriting without Tears
• All About Spelling 2

Math

• Multiplication with cuisinaire rods - x 0, 1 and 2

Science

• Ocean Animal Atlas
• National Geographic Animal Encyclopedia

Extras

• Piano

12th Grader

• Shakespeare's MacBeth
• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• Dual enrollment courses at the college