Over the past month we put the planning into action. Our garden is finally completed! For those that dont know HSV host an Annual Garden Hop, so everyone can show off their great accomplishments.
The Supplies
The Work
The Finished Product
and Heavens cucumbers were ready to go into the big garden..
Already Growing!!
I cant wait till next month, to show you guys the end outcome! For more info make sure to visit HSV
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The day has come when my little girl has completed her preschool years. As sad as I am, I’m also excited about the fun we will have in K-4.
Now that school is finished up (till Aug) we have started some of our summer activities. If you’re looking for ideas, visit my Pinterest Summer Fun Board. Lots of great ideas! This week we have spent so much time outside enjoying all the things our backyard (and Grandmas) has to offer.
Finding snails at Grandmas
Toads are back
and Heaven finally caught her butterfly
We also started checking things off the summer fun list like “blowing bubbles”
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Our 2011/12 school year is coming to an end. We spent this past week visiting a Theme Park, playing outside and cleaning out the school room. Next week will be Heavens last day of preschool and then we will begin our summer fun so be sure to check back =)
Enjoying nice weather
Spring Clean Out
Finished 
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We are nearing the end of the 2011/12 school year, only 3 weeks left! This week we took it easy and just enjoyed the nice weather, doing Science experiments and planting in the garden (will update soon)..
Place an egg in white vinegar
We then compared the eggs
Celery Sticks In Colored Water
Made Snow For Fun (since we didn’t get any in MI this year)
Worked on Time4Learning (my most fav site for kids ever!) Heaven LOVES doing school work with her big brother
For the little ones birthdays Grandma helped out our PE class (GREAT gift!!!)
Chasing Butterflies
and a sneak peak of what’s to come in our garden post
Are you close to finishing up the school year?
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Since JJ lives with us now, we are the ones responsible for his HW (so is he). A few months back, a letter came home, that we had to sign. It stated that as a family we would make sure JJ has a Science Fair Project turned in on a certain day. Being as competitive as I am, I told him I would only help, if it was something really cool (who wants to spend all their time doing something that’s been done?). After looking at tons of ideas, I came across one that involved Lego’s. I know how much JJ loves building things so we went with
Purpose- To see if we could design a city layout that could withstand an Earthquake. We wanted to see what works, what didn’t and why.
Hypothesis- JJ’s guess was as the building height increased, building stability would decrease.
Materials-
Building Structures
Shake Table
4X8 sheet of 1/2in. MDF or any other wood available this was leftover from a previous project
1X2 stock
wood glue
wood screws
circular saw
cordless drill
measuring tape
4ft straight edge
1 coffee can plastic lid
marbles “enough to fill the area of your lids”
green, brown, grey paint
Directions
Structures
1 Layout cutting board and take the long thin pieces of balsa wood.
2 Be sure you have enough to make four equal sides for a four sided building.
3 Measure and cut pieces to size needed.
4 Using hot glue or wood glue “Hot glue dries faster” begin gluing and pressing the sides together to form a box with a hollow middle.
5 Allow glue to dry
6 Measure and cut a piece to become to top of the box “building” and glue in place
7 After all buildings have been built begin painting the buildings
8. Once all skyscrapers are complete build different size/shape Lego buildings
9. Measure ALL of the buildings and document them
Shake table directions
1 Measure and cut out your base of the table using the MDF, we came up with 36in. X 26in.
2 Measure and cut the 1X2 stock to make 4 – 36in. side rails and 4 – 22in. End rails
3 glue the longer side of one side rail and stack another side rail ontop.
4 glue the edge of you base table where the glued side rails will set and screw together the side rail to the base table
5 repeat steps 3 and 4 for the other side and then again for the end rails
6 measure and cut a 30in. X 20in piece of MDF “this will be piece where your buildings will sit and act as the top layer of the Earth’s crust
7 clean off all wood and prepare surface for paint
8 layout all of the buildings to get an idea of how you want to layout the city
9 paint the shake table use grey for streets green for grass brown for your side rails
10 glue the plastic lid to center on the top of the MDF base table
11 fill the lid with marbles
12 lay the smaller piece of MDF on top of the marbles, test and make sure that it will move back and forth
13 layout your city with the buildings
Experiment
Trial 1 Back & Fourth Shaking (20 seconds) “P” Waves
Record your data, set back up and set your stop watch for another 20 seconds
Trial 2 Side to Side Shaking (20 seconds) “S” waves
Record, Set Up, Timer
Trial 3 Gentle Rolling (20 seconds) Surface waves
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Tagged Earthquake, Science Project Idea
