Fun Science!

At the CHN Family Expo this year we heard the writer of Real Science 4 Kids series talk all about her new books. We fell in love with the idea and ordered "Chemistry Pre-Level 1" when we got home. It is for kids in the age range of K thru 3rd grade. By the way, that is one thing I love about the Expo each year. There are always homeschooling families that are using their expertise to help other homeschoolers and that is what this woman is. She and her husband are scientists raising kids and didn't like the way they teach science in schools. They did it their own way since they were homeschooling and decided to share it with others.

Today we read the chapter about molecules and their rules and then we did the experiment. The idea was to show that the rules limit the atoms to create only certain kinds of molecules, otherwise there would be chaos.

Below is my step-daughter, Nikki, jumping in to make molecules, too. She goes to public school and has one more week of summer vacation, but she loves to learn right along with the boys and help out.

Jake has a "flat friend" in town visiting from Canada. He sat in on our science lesson!

This is Tom's creation. The rule was that the candies could only have three toothpicks in them. Leave it to all three of my little "out of the box" types to come up with some ways to use more and still follow the rules of the experiment.