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1850MOD, year in review part 3

Part 3 – Science

You know. It’s funny about the science in year 5.  I skipped stuff (y’all still let me post, right?)  I *felt* like we didn’t do much.  I felt like it was a lot of reading.  Then the year of the came and my perspective changed.  My kids loved the experiments in the 100 Science Experiments book.   They displayed 5 of their favorite projects from the year in the local End of Year Academic Fair.   Oh my goodness --- we did all of that and more?????   They had a lot of fun in science this year probably because I stayed out of it!!!! And there was no way to display everything we did.  As is the case with other years in MFW, you can take apart your science stuff and clean up.   About 2-3 days before the Academic Fair my girls went through the 100 Science Experiments book and re did their 4 most favorite lessons.  They also displayed their Quiz Board from the Wired! Kit.

While I was busy dealing with the autistic preschooler and everything else I do and ignoring and “forgetting” to do the science, my 6^th grader picked up the teachers’ manual and was setting it up and doing all of it.   They had fun with it and they were learning stuff too. 

Science is an elementary stage overview of basic chemistry and physics.   Still leaves lot of room for when they are older and studying it later.