Back to Work

We've had a week of very little school due to illness, but finally this morning everyone is ready to go. The kids will complete a very full work load this week as I'm giving them report cards for the first quarter on school on Friday.

Until today, the Artist's seventh grade chemistry class has involved only reading, note taking, & making diagrams. Finally today she got to crack open the chemistry kit -- that big, enticing box that has been sitting on the shelf for a couple of months.

She was assigned to conduct the first four experiments in the book this week. Her excitement, and mine, waned a little when she read (and I recalled) that today's work was just preparing a solution that needs to rest for 24 hours before we use it.

Nonetheless, she had fun trying on the goggles, wearing her gloves and playing with the test tubes. She carefully measured the prescribed amount of water into a test tube and then added some litmus powder. She sealed the tube and shook it. Now it rests on a shelf in my kitchen window, "out of reach of small children." Tomorrow's science experiment time should be more fun.

In other subjects I'm humbled by my son. The Rosetta Stone German lesson we are working on he just passed with 98%. On Saturday I got an 88%, thus failing the lesson. So I need to do it again! I have my work cut out for me.