HP: As the target of your abuse today, I feel it necessary to share with you the following link (safe for work), of what Mr. HP considers "hot." Click at thine own risk.
You guys are all loony today Here I am trying to be serious for a change while posting on my thread and all you goofballs are busy telling jokes! Carry on.
I have a whole book of experiments and yesterday we learned about surface tension on water. We zoomed a little boat made out of card stock across a bowl of water, using a drop of dish soap. D6 loved it, of course. Don't all kids love science--seems like magic to them.
Update: Things continue to go well. Lots of flirting and tons of affection. I am proud of my husband.
"Don't all kids love science--seems like magic to them."
One of the things I love about my job. Even though many students are constantly "bored" and try to convince me to cancel class. Those "wow that's cool" moments happen often enough to keep me going strong.
Keep it up with the experiments. As I alluded to before, the majority of elem teachers are afraid of science, so many students adopt those feelings by the time they reach middle school. If you can keep your children's interest/enjoyment of math/science high, they will have a definite advantage scholastically over most kids. And that means college scholarships and rewarding careers in the future.
"Recollect me darlin, raise me to your lips, two undernourished egos, four rotating hips"
We spend the majority of our time on math as it is. She's already reading so I don't push that too much. If she ends up going to regular school in the future, she'll be way ahead of her peers if I taught reading and phonics as aggressively as I do math/science.
When I started 1st grade, I could read and so the kindly old nun got me out of my desk, put me in a corner with a stack of Reader's Digests, and that's where I spent the entire day until about 3/4 way thru the year, when the other students could also read. I learned a *lot* in those Reader's Digests, things I shouldn't have been privy to! I'm still surprised my mother allowed this to happen, but she was busy with my younger sibs at home and my irresponsible father. So perhaps I am projecting my experience onto her and wanting to make sure that she is not light years ahead of her peers. I suppose I should just let her go at her own pace and forget what others are doing. After all, that IS the reason I'm schooling her at home, now isn't it!
