Week 8 Review Crossword

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Notebooking and Lapbooking Pages

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I just found this site today that has notebooking pages to correspond to each chapter of Story of the World! And, best of all, it's free! I've printed a couple of notebooking pages already but one caveat, there is a header and footer so check your print preview. I'm still going to have to trim the page since there is a header that I can't remove but I'm o.k. with that. These can be mounted on cardstock and will look very nice.
Keep calm and homeschool on.
Amy

Lapbook

Until today I was a lapbook virgin.  This was my first time.

I was scared just thinking about how much work it would be.  But really it was quite fun.  I am not qualified to tell you how to make a lapbook.

I can show you how we made ours.  By the way, he really got into this and even asked if we could do this for next week's history fact.  Woah.

 We started by asking the 5W's and a H.

Then we printed a bunch of pictures from the Internet.

 The hand drawn picture on the blue page represents the financial decline of France when the Huguenots fled.  If you click on the images (from the blog) they will become larger.

 My reluctant writer wrote a lot today.  It made me very happy.

We both learned much about King Louis XIV, Versailles, and the Edict of Nantes.

Sister just sat at the table and drew.  Isn't she cute?  Well, I wish she just sat at the table and drew...this picture was too cute not to post for your viewing pleasure.

HT: Living and Learning does lapbooks.  Check out her blog for more great ideas.

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Acids and bases for kids

NeoK12 has a number of videos on acids and bases, and here's a video presentation for kids by kidsknowit.com. Here's an entire page of links for kids, flash player/interactive links, and links for teachers (scroll down here) including video clips, powerpoint presentations, and science games.

Louis XIV for kids

Biography.com has some helpful videos on Louis XIV to add to our history this week. Here's a photo of Versailles, his home.

You can try putting this week's memory work to the tune of the Hokey Pokey:
In sixteen eight-y five
The Sun King of France
Loui-is the four-teenth
revoked the e-edict of Nantes
causing the-e Fre-ench Huguenots
to flee the co-untry
beginning the finan-cial decline
(shout) of France!

"Give me Liberty" fill-in-the-blank

Here's a fill-in-the-blank with a few phrases from our Patrick Henry memory work.

Week 7 "Midnight Ride" Fill-in-the-Blank

Here's a fill-in-the-blank worksheet for our Midnight Ride memory work this week.

Week 7 review crossword

Here's a week 7 review crossword.

Diet Coke & Mentos

This week's science fact caused my mind to jump to Diet Coke & Mentos.



The key is to get all the Mentos in the Diet Coke - quickly.


Because the eruption is quite spontaneous.


He wanted it to keep going, so when he found a Mentos on the ground he shoved it back in.


Over half the 2-liter spilled onto the concrete.  That's what I call bubbles!!

More fun: check out all the YouTube Mentos/Diet Coke experiments.