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The kids at Stephanie's chemistry had to do a taste test on several foods to say if it were sweet, salty, or neither. Megan , after tasting, thought Salty Potato chips Sweet Ripe banana Green banana Marshmallow Neither sweet nor salty Raw potato Cooked potato She initially took a guess before tasting , but did not label the items.

Today I fed the worms 0.68 g  of rotten seedless Sam's club cucumbers.  I am curious how long it takes them to eat it. Their are about 2 lbs of worms so they should be able to eat 1 lb.  of food, which is about 463 grams. I have yet to feed them this as its a new bin. When they finish what they have, I will feed them more.  

At 9:12 p.m on April 12th 2014 , Megan put a egg in vinegar. We are wanting to see for ourselves what happens. 

Megan was doing her daily writing on dinosaurs, so I took out Leslie's list of Prefixes and Suffixes and got Megan started using these index cards to come up with names of dinosaur.  Then, I found a sheet where she picked a name and described it, such as why it was given this name, what did it like to do, what was its habitat, etc. 

Megan and I are studying Inertia by putting a index card over a glass and then a penny, nickel or dime over it. Then you snap the card with your fingers in a straight manner and the index card slips out from under the coin and gravity causes it to fall into the cup. Megan got this to work with more than one coin (2 coins).

Tonight I read a book called plant cells to Megan. We talked about what is considered a plant. We read that trees, plants, grass and moss are all considered plants.  We read about the plant cell and what is the difference between a plant cell and an animal cell. We discovered that plant cells have a cell wall in addition to a flexible membrane and this helps the lant keep its shape.

We did a meetup yesterday that incorporated terms like diffusion, emulsion, and  absorption. Megan did most of them.  However, she spent a lot of her time on the diffusion one.  This one you wet your paper and then you add watered down tempura paint to the pictures.  In time, the paint should move across the wet paper.  That night, we did two more. One where you                                                                     

We are trying out activities in the Home Art for Kindergarden (I bought the first grade one as well).

Megan had a sheet of characters from a another planet.    They were all numbered and , without a classification key, she just looked at the creatures and made up pairs based on what they looked like and their body features, feet, , antennae, body coloration, wings, antennae, etc.   then her friend, who has vp been studying the creatures, comes up with a dichotomous key to sort the animals.  Megan paired most of them right originally, except 4,   I think this was because she paired them based on coloration ,  overlooking the fact that the ones of the same pattern of marks did not have the same feature when it came to legs. We discussed that this is an important feature as you would not pair a fish with a lion .   I thought this was a cute activity.   Megan would rather build or mix things.