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My son’s history class took a field trip to Orlando to see the Medieval Times.  Since Sir Husband will never take me, I decided I needed to tag along.  After all I am  royalty and I will feel right at home.  Let’s start with a photo to help you put things into perspective.
Here is the [...]

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For the FPEA Convention.
I refuse to go to venor workshops at the convention, just because they sound good.  When I go into a venor workshop (lecture), I’ll come out with the fact that  I HAVE TO BUY THAT and buy it.  Then after a few days, I come back to earth and realize that I didn’t [...]

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and read

and read

and read

and read

and read.

I missed the opportunity to take a picture of her reading while loading the dishwasher and coming out of the bathroom. LOL

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Apologia Physical Science
All things must come to an end. :(  This is my last post for the topic of Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Physical Science by Dr. Wile.  We have had a wonderful year with this subject, the students were great, the book was great, and I just can’t believe it went by so quickly.  [...]

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Apologia Physica Science - Module 15
It is hard to believe we only have one more module left.  It has been an exciting year.
This week and next week we are covering Light.  Light waves are referred to as electromagnetic waves.  It travels very fast in a vacuum. Light does not need air because it [...]

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While we visited the farm on Tuesday, my friend let the girls collect eggs.

These are chickens.  They lay one egg a day. 

The girls collected three chicken eggs.  You do know what part of the chicken the egg comes from, right?
Two eggs went into brownies.  One had to be thrown out, because it was cracked.

This is the [...]

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Waves and Sound
 We are coming fast to the end of our exciting journey with Exploring Creation with Physical Science.  We have learned a lot about God’s creation through this. 
 Module 14 is about Waves and Sound.  We learned there are two types of waves.
The Transverse Wave.  I demonstrated this wave, in the classroom, using a [...]

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Here is another experiment that was done by one of my Physical Science students.  This was done when we did not have any experiments to do for module 13. 
This young man decided to do Experiment with Fluids.
He brought an 8oz bottle of cold medicine, a can to fill with water, and a large bowl to catch [...]

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Yesterday, the family visited a place called The Princess Place in Flagler County.  I will be posting more about that trip later, but wanted to share some interesting creatures I saw there. 
 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Bumble Bee

Black Racer

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All of this happens after the Great Backyard Bird Count, of course.     The pictures are not good.  I just can’t seem to get a good clear shot of birdies.  Oh well.  They were all taken through a window or screen.
Mourning Dove

Chipping Sparrow

Northern Cardinal

 I haven’t been able to identify this last bird (below).  I have [...]

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