Jen has just finished her Physics block and now we have moved on to Chemistry, this is what she has been busy with over the last week.
This was an amazing experiment. We filled a round glass bottle with water, stuck a cork onto the bottle and inverted it into a large and sturdy glass. We placed a lit candle behind the bottle filled with water and it emitted the most radiant light through the water filled bottle. This experiment was done at night in the kitchen with the lights off. This method of lighting came about, many years ago before there was electricity. People would like to sit and sew and as night approached, it became too dark to sew and then some clever soul came up with this idea:)
If anyone is blogging their school year for grade 8, grade 6 or grade 4. Please would you leave your link in the comments, I would love to see what you are busy with:)
xo
Linda
Liz has just begun her 6th grade physics block. She was very annoyed because they began by sitting out in the snow in silence :)
ReplyDeleteYour daughter's lesson book pages are beautiful! My own daughter is asking to go back to Waldorf homeschooling. Do you use a particular curriculum?
ReplyDeleteHello Dear Dawn,
ReplyDeleteIt is wonderful to hear from you:) Thank you so much about Jen's lesson book. We are using Live Education for Physics and Chemistry. There are so many wonderful resources avaliable. How lovely that your daughter wants to homeschool again:)
xo xo xo Linda
Is there a Waldorf homeschooling corric?
ReplyDeleteThis is so fun! Much funner than what we are doing...... Poor Mr. C is borred to tears and was happy for something different when we did the geometry pages you'd showed us a few posts back.
Thank you Linda. I will look into Live Education.
ReplyDeleteDid you see Rachel's blog about her son's geometry - discovered through you. That makes you a bit of a light disseminator, yourself. And I will pass this along to my biologist daughter, who is teaching physics and chem right now in a private school. Watch makers used to use the globe as a way of lighting and magnifying their work - working with tiny gears in dim shops. Lovely piece of work here.
ReplyDeleteJen's lessons are beautiful and fascinating. I'd like to try the candle experiment myself!
ReplyDeleteDear Rachel,
ReplyDeleteThere are a few Waldorf homeschooling curriculums: Live Education, Christopherus, A Little Garden Flower. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions:)
xo
Linda
I love to see the beautiful grade 7 work! We are doing grade 5 (and 3) now. Thank you for sharing!
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