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like showers on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants."

Deuteronomy 32:2

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Saturday, February 2

Second Grade, Science, Set One

Our first week we completed the book, Adventures with a Straw. It was a good book to start with. The experiments had a game quality to them. We rolled and slid straws down inclines. We put books on straws to make the book move easier. We blew through the straws, making paper and balls moves (actually we had races to see who's paper or ball would get to the finish line first). We blew across the top of the straw, making music. We held paper to the straw by sucking on one end of the straw. It was a lot of fun.

Our second and third week we worked on Magnify and Find Out Why. K. isn't as interested in these experiments as she was in the ones last week where were where doing things and not just looking at things. This has made our science times quite short. Some of the things we have looked at are soil, roots, and air bubbles in water. Some of the things we looked at in the third week were quite interesting to K. We looked at spices and herbs, our eyes, fingerprints, sponges, and seeds.

The fourth week we finished Magnify. We looked at our fingerprints and at the hidden letters on coins that tell where the coin was minted and who the artist was. Then we started The Real Magnet Book.  Besides finding things that attracted our magent, we made a little boat with a cork and some tacks and sailed it in a pie plate of water by moving a magnet under the plate.

In our fifth week The Real Magnet Book had us use the magnet to make a compass.

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