Cookies & Clouds

One of the main reasons why we love homeschooling is the flexibility and how learning never starts and stops at a certain time each day. As I was going over today's science lesson I discovered I had forgotten to save an empty peanut butter jar for our science experiment. We decided to have our home economics class before science so we could use up the rest of the peanut butter to have the empty jar!

Once a week we choose a recipe and the kids get to do all the cooking. I try to just give directions and let them take the wheel and do everything themselves. It is my goal to turn children out into this world that know how to make healthy eating choices and know their way around a kitchen. Today they made "no-bake cookies" and used up the rest of the peanut butter!
We love to throw a little math into the cooking lesson as well, Emily just happens to be working on fractions this week and it's great practice for her to figure out how many 1/4 cups it will take to make 1 3/4 cups of sugar or 3 cups of oatmeal.

After the cookies it was time for the experiment. We have been studying weather, humidity, and clouds and created a water vapor "cloud" in the jar. It was seen best in a dark room with a flashlight.

Disclaimer: If you are a homeschooling Mom you will know exactly what I mean when I say this...not every day is like this, some are "easy" and you feel like they are getting it and you are loving every minute of it. Today was one of those days for us. But along the journey there comes plenty of "hard" days when you just want to bang your head against the wall and cry! In those days just remember that the God who called you to do this for your children will give you the strength to make it through each day!