Homeschool With Tracey

Tristin’s first week with Apologia General Science went very well.  However, she did only get a B- on her first lab report (doh!) because she had some misspellings and/or incorrect wording.  I told her to proofread those labs before turning them into me.  Since this is her first year of receiving “grade” for something (a lot of homeshool pros recommend you don’t start actually grading things until around middle-high school years), I am hoping she will be motivated to remember.

Anyway, I absolutely LOVED the experiments that she did!  I will try to remember to take pictures from now on to post them here in my blog.  Her first experiment involved a jar filled with equal amounts of maple syrup, water, and vegetable oil.  She was to gather together a small rock, a grape, an ice cube, and a piece or cork.  She then put them into the jar with the liquids (which were all separated, by the way—the maple syrup stayed at the bottom, the water stayed in the middle, and the oil stayed at the top).  So, the rock sunk to the bottom, the grape floated on top of the maple syrup, the ice cube floated on top of the water, and the cork floated on the top of the oil!  It was so cool!