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Apple Browning Experiment

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

We love our apples here. They are always in the fridge, unless its grocery day and they have all been eaten. The one healthy snack that my kids never turn down, and I never have a problem with them having for an afternoon snack.

Apple Browning Experiment

Apple Browning Experiment

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Now with what I just said in mind, for this science experiment, I didn’t go to the apples in my fridge, we count on them for snacking. Instead I went to the apple tree just a few houses down from us.

I used a couple old cookie sheets that I had painted with chalk paint for our tray. (I knew these would come in handy at some point when I painted them a few months ago!) The cookies sheets were perfect for keeping the bowls separated and labeled, plus they would contain the mess in case they were knocked over.

We used four small apples, in four small bowls with four different coatings.

  • water
  • baking soda
  • vinegar
  • lemon juice

Apple Browning Experiment
It worked out really well, nice and even, both Austin and Brookland were able to cover two apples each, no fighting involved.

We covered them and left them, almost, alone. They were peeked in on every few hours that day, just to make sure they weren’t going any where and to see what was happening… by the girls of course.

Apple Browning Experiment
After 24 hours we checked to see what had happened. The girls weren’t sure what to expect, apples get eaten right away around here, they don’t get put in the fridge half eaten, so they didn’t know that apples turn brown when exposed to air before this experiment.

Apple Browning Experiment

The picture of the apple (fractions) below will lead you to my resource library sign up form. Once you sign up, and confirm it, you’ll have access to all the printable there including this one.

 Apple Fractions

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Filed Under: Homeschool Tagged With: apple science, Homeschool, homeschooling, science experiment, science for kids

Q-Tip Skeletons for Halloween

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

Halloween is the time of year when the crazy skeletons come out. Their hanging from trees, doors, windows, and in our case on our fridge. This is the perfect craft for young toddlers and older. It doesn’t have to look like a skeleton to you, but its what they see that matters.

This is a classic craft, if you have young children in daycare, or even in school, you just might find this in with their things.

Q-Tip Skeletons for Halloween

Q-Tip Skeletons

Q-Tip Skeletons

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All you need is:
• Q-tips
• glue
• paper

This is Austin’s skeleton, minus the head. She wanted a white head to go with the white body.

Q-tip skeletons
Because she knew what she wanted, she made it on her own.

Q-tip skeletons
I love the look of concentration on her face.

Her finished product:

Q-tip skeletons
I think she did a great job!

She got to make a body with “bones” and I got a Halloween decoration.

Bones Fascination

Austin has been interested in the human body and bones for almost two years now. Ever since she watched a good portion of Bones with me. The interest has been on and off but she’ll see a new book at the library that sparks her interest all over opportunity to explore her interests and incorporate “school” into it.

We have checked many books out from the library over the last two years on the human body and on bones in general.

I have also bought a few too,
Little Explorers My Amazing Body – a flap book.
My Silly Body and Book – a body shape fold out – with flaps. The book includes break down of different body parts, ie/ brain and lungs. Includes experiments you can try.

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Filed Under: Halloween, Holiday, Kids Activities Tagged With: Bones, Crafts, Halloween, Homeschool, homeschooling, Human Body, human skeletons, Kids Activities, skeletons

Is Homeschooling for Us?

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

We are going to be a homeschooling family this year. It is new, it is scary, its a lot for us to take on, but we’re gonna do it. It’s still so weird to think that we’re going to do this, let alone say it out loud, to anyone.

Deciding to homeschool
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Filed Under: Family, Homeschool Tagged With: curriculum, Family, Homeschool, homeschooling, Saskatchewan, unschooling

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I'm Ashley, a Canadian secular homeschool mom of 3, living in Nova Scotia.

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