My Father's World...

We have "officially" begun our school curriculum, Turbo and I. Although we have been working throughout the summer on things, I decided that "school" is officially in.

It took us FOREVER to learn about the 7 days of Creation, although...in reality, it should have taken us 7 days...it was more like 7 weeks. But today, we started on the first week of My Father's World: The Sun.

It is a really easy curriculum to follow, but man, it is hard the first go around. Then throw in a highly distractable 5 1/2 year old, and you have yourself a recipe for a good show.

We got through the first day, but as I sit here in my quiet living room, at my new table that my hubby finished, drinking ice cold water, I am reviewing the next 5 days of lessons, and BOY! do I need to get my teaching hat out of the closet, dust it off, and get goin'! My days of lounging in the green grass with other mom's are over! I gotta get my poop in a group and figure this stuff out so that Turbo is not the only one distracted during the lessons!

Sun Prints

As we get started on our space unit for the summer, we began with the sun.

We read a book about the sun


And then we did an experiment with solar paper, which I ordered off of Amazon for super cheap.




We gathered leaves to put on the paper and inserted it into the frame.



After putting it in the sunlight for about 1-3 minutes, the blue began to fade to white.


Quickly, we took it out of the frame and put it into a tray of water for 1 minute.


As the afternoon went on, the blue came back and deepened as time passed.