Tuesday

Our bathroom renovation is moving along.  The plumbing, electrical, and building inspectors all gave their okays and our contractor has started putting up the sheet rock.  Exciting stuff.

This past Sunday the kids participated in the JCC RJ All Star Memorial Swim Meet.  This meet was held in honor of their coach who passed away suddenly by stroke over the summer.  It was an exciting meet.  Both kids did really well, shaving seconds off of their previous times.  Mister B even managed to place and earned our team 2 points.  Our team also won the meet.  All the kids swam their best to make RJ proud.

This week our studies continue. Mister B is learning basic geometry terms and Little Miss M is solving for the unknown.  For History they are learning about British Imperialism in Africa.  In science Little Miss made a cell out of Jello and fruit.  She started to eat it before I could get a good picture but here are a couple.

A bit hard to see in the pic but here it is after we removed it from the glass jar to see how a cell wall adds structure to plants.

Inside the bag.  The plum is the nucleus, there are grapes for cytoplasm and raisins for mitochondria.

She really liked this project.  Mostly because she got to eat jello, but I believe she has a better understanding of cell structure and how plant and animal cells differ due to the cell wall.

Mister B is continuing to learn about energy and how all energy emits heat.  Yesterday he was going around the house and looking at various appliances and how they vent heat.

Grammar, vocabulary, and critical thinking round out the day.