I was trying to think of a cute, catchy title for this entry but am just not feeling creative enough for that at the moment.  We have had the stomach virus visit our house this week and it hasn't been fun!  JM came down with it Monday night and was sick all day Tuesday.  The Wed afternoon the other 3 boys all got sick.  I thought I was coming down with it Wed AM because I was feeling quesy so I asked dh to take JM to the cardiologist.  He did but I never did feel more than just tired and quesy all day.  So we did school and I caught up on the laundry.

We are finishing up our Exploring Creation with Astronomy studies and having a blast in the meantime.  We didn't to the rocket experiment from the Saturn chapter so we are doing that as well as the cloud one this week.  (Neptune, like Jupiter and Saturn, has storms raging.  W simulate a storm cloud to see what a storm may look like on the planet.  Of course a storm cloud on a gas planet would not be made of water vapor but it was a fun experiment anyway!  

We used very hot water, ziploc bag full of ice, and a lit match.  (The smoke from the match supplies some particles in the air above the water.)  We learned that the inner core of each planet is very hot (represented by the hot water), while the gases that make up its atmosphere are extremely cold (represented by the ice).  Gases rise from the hot core but turn into liquids adn then solids when they get cooled off in the ice cold atmosphere.

The boys also made rockets.  Next on our agenda is to launch our rockets.  We just need the Alka-Seltzer and film canister so that we can finish our experiment.  

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