Science

This is Kerry's scale model of the ocean floor. Notice the basket sponge and tube coral. I love it!! Check out more projects on http://www.lapazfarm.wordpress.com/

Science Experiment

A guest post by : Kerry

There are no pics this week because the camera is not working. Today I did an experiment on whale blubber and how it keeps them warm. I figured out that it keeps them approximately 29 degrees warmer. (Fahrenheit of course) The experiment I used is as follows.

First since I only had one thermometer I put it in an empty cup for 30 minutes in the freezer. During which I put cotton balls at the bottom of the second cup. After the 30 minutes were over the thermometer read 0 degrees Fahrenheit. After placing the thermometer in the second cup I filled it up with cotton balls and poured 3/4s oz. of cooking oil in the cup. After being in the freezer for the 30 minutes the thermometer read 29 degrees.

Whale Blubber is like the cotton balls and oil it keeps the whale or in this case thermometer considerably warmer. I also did a reserach paper about whale blubber finding that it also stores food and energy. Blubber is a multi-purpose fat it gives added metabolism as well.
When Mom's camera is fixed I will take a pic of my lab report.

1. I finally found a coffee table. I have been looking for a year. It gets even better, I found it at a Thrift store!
2. We have been trying to get our house enthroned to The Sacred Heart of Jesus and The Immaculate Heart of Mary with other homeschooling families. Our schedules never would cooperate...finally we did it on Monday. It was a long day but well worth the wait. Fr. Jose is a very holy priest and we were all blessed to have him enthrone our families and homes to Our Lady and Our Lord.






3. Since we were having Father come to enthrone our home we cleaned top to bottom even the closets were cleaned out. So, not only is my home Blessed it is CLEAN!!

Science class

We gathered our seaweed ...

Took a few pieces and put it on our slides...
This is what it looked like under the microscope at 600x.... we were fascinated!!

Here is some plankton under the scope as well. Go over to www.lapazfarm.wordpress.com to check out some more field work.

A Thrifting Weekend

Kerry and I set out for a coffee table...now the one I had was way too big for the area. It was also too dark being that our couch is a brown leather and the side chair is brown and gold, the floors are a darker wood as well. So we wanted to brighten up the area with a lighter table. We came up with this quaint little red painted table with a removable tray on top. Our shopping appetite was satisfied. Then Kerry spied this old Breyer horse to add to her collection...I was in need of a new glass water pitcher and saw this lovely cobalt blue, glass one.

Low a behold this milk glass candy dish caught our eyes and we found that our rosaries which were overflowing in their old glass dish could all fit nicely with room to spare.

Kerry was in Heaven when she found all this yummy fabric!!!

We had a wonderful lunch in town as we discussed our treasure finds and our thrifting adventures. It was a lovely day!

Science Homework,,gotta love it!!!

We had to make sushi for Science today...I know, I know what a great Science class and it is! Kerry prepared her fillings...

Then came the rolling...this was so difficult. We had several attempts until we came up with....

This...but we ended up doing much better then this ....my memory card on my camera was full so no pics..honest. You'll have to trust me..ha But I must say they were delicious!!

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