as you know, we only school 4 days a week. typically it's monday thru thursday. but there are occasions where we switch it up if there's a holiday or we're on vacation or the doc is home during the week, etc., etc. i tried leaving the hands-on stuff to saturdays and treating it like non-school stuff so i didn't have to be involved. but it just didn't work. to have doc M do science experiments with such an unpredictable schedule turned out not to be such a great idea. experiments sort of went out the window, along with any type of hands-on history or art project. i hate cleaning up messes.
this year we're trying something different. luigi is in charge of the science experiment every friday. Z is in charge of a craft project every friday. they teach the littles and help them along. we sat down and worked out a bunch of project ideas. science experiments are easy since they're built in to the curriculum. Z picks what she wants to do each week and at the beginning of the week they each email me to let me know what supplies they need.
luigi built a solar system with balloons today. and Z supervised custom clip boards. here is the result of the art project:
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