Science

It's no secret that science is one of my weakest subjects so I was happy to find a pretty easy curriculum last year that worked for all 3 girls, despite a few drawbacks. We studied the planets and space all year, at different levels, and really seemed to retain the info and enjoy it along the way. So this year we dove into the same curriculum with a new subject for Belle and Lucy Clare, while Connie moved on to bigger and better (harder) 7th grade Biology.

I'd love to report that we're having as much luck as last year but sadly, that is definitely not the case. Poor Connie has HATED her new stuff and we've had to invite Aunt Karen in for back-up and will most likely need to again soon. Science has consisted of whining, crying, bad grades, confusion and general misery.


Belle and Lucy Clare aren't doing much better, albeit with less tears. They're studying animals, and while that sounded like it would be relatively interesting, the details are mind-numbingly boring after awhile. And the religious draw backs of the curriculum that I was able to work around fairly easily last year, are much more (glaringly) apparent in this text.

The high-point of the year has been 2 experiments. In the first one we used m&m's to show how easy it is for animals to hide in certain environments. For the 2nd one we tested how people's sense of smell and taste is affected by color using jello with food coloring.

Diving for m&m's in a colored construction paper habitat.

Sorting and counting the rescued m&m's.

So today, about to dive into another tedious lesson on primates (and the accompanying lecture on how evolution couldn't possibly be scientific fact) we just quit. I told the girls I just couldn't face one more animal and we found a wonderful book about the human body that we are going to work on instead while I research curriculums again.

Poor Connie has to stick with Biology, though, and we'll be calling Aunt Karen to rescue us again soon.