Jun. 24, 2007
Our Rock collecting adventures!
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Creation Study
As we are learning about day 3 of creation, we took a little detour and delved into the world of rocks. The girls have become very fascinated with collecting rocks now! I found this kit awhile back and we have been working on it for over a week now. I wasn't expecting it to take this long...but it was HARD WORK being a geologist! And in the end, daddy ended up doing most of the "digging." We left the dirt out on the table for days, a few times a day we would each stop by and dig and scrape a little bit. But, it wasn't until today that we hit our first rock crystal! And daddy was digging and digging...and we found 12 in all!
Here is the description on the kit: Crystal Mining Kit - Excavate your very own crystals. Add them to your rock collection. The kit contains various color natural crystals. It's a cool mineral rock digging kit.
We found clear quartz crystals, agate, amethyst, and dolomite. It was quite exciting each time we "hit" a new rock. The slide show pictures show all the steps we took. We dug and dug with the tools provided in the kit, after we found the crystals, we soaked them in warm water, then we dried them off, put them on the classifying board and now they are added to our rock collection! Fun!
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Jun. 24, 2007 - Untitled Comment
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by Anonymous
Very fun! Geology was my favorite class in college. Glad your girls loved it too!!
Melissa
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Jun. 25, 2007 - Hello
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by nancysnook
I love the look of your blog!!! Did you make the template yourself or buy it somewhere? I found you on the Random Blogger at the top of the screen. I just posted a really great host of links and lots of them are for younger kids. You might want to come by and check it out. Oh, and this site (westward) is a great one for resources as well, she is a good friend of mine and we go to co-op together. We're in KY...howdy neighbor!
Nancy
Edited by nancysnook on Jun. 24, 2007 at 11:06 PM
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Jun. 25, 2007 - Untitled Comment
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by Anonymous
Candace,
This is really neat! I am going to have to do this with Justin! There are so many fun things to do aren't there!
Michele
Koreamom.blogspot.com
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Jun. 25, 2007 - Untitled Comment
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by jones9387
Candace, I love your blog page!! My favorite color is brown. I would like to have that same blog layout. The rock mining sounds and looks cool. Where did you buy it? My kids are rock collectors and they would just love this. How did you get music on you blog page? Where did you find the music.
Talk to you later.
Tiffany
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Jun. 26, 2007 - Untitled Comment
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by CandaceC
Hi ladies! Thanks for the compliments on my blog! I actually had a friend that put it together and designed it for me. I love pink and brown too. :) The music comes from finetune.com -- anyone can put in their favorite songs, then copy and paste the link and put it in your blog! It's pretty simple to do! Thanks for stopping by!
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