Archive for November, 2007

Grand Illumination

Friday, November 30th, 2007

We had the best time tonight!
We went to the Grand Illumination in Richmond, Virginia. It was SO beautiful. And there were so many things to do that we couldn’t possibly do them all. We went with our good friends and their children, and for an entire night we had sweet, enchanted, well-behaved kids. Ok, pick […]

Black is black?

Friday, November 30th, 2007

What if molecules cannot be separated by filtration OR evaporation?
Another technique you can use to separate mixtures is CHROMATOGRAPHY. It is based on the fact that different molecules stick to each other in different ways. In Greek, the word chromatography means to write with color. This technique was so named because it was originally used […]

Separating Mixtures

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Thursday = Science Day
Today we learned ( ** note - I say we, because frankly, I learn right along with GB) how to separate mixtures in our Chemistry course.
There are three ways to separate mixtures according to the Real Science 4 Kids text book. First, through FILTRATION. Filtration can be used to separate two or […]

Wednesday happenings

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

GB and I had a really full day today.
We started with our Language Arts. GB has gotten pretty good at it. I really think it’s because he discovered reading over the Summer. Now he can plow through a thick book with hundreds of pages in less than a week. So today we worked on sentence […]