Lighting the Fire: Science Curriculum K-4th

Our life in books

This is our eigth year of homeschooling and I finally got around to blogging about our adventures a few years ago.

I love the path that God has us on.

We get to enjoy the lightbulb moments in educating our children and have quite a few of them ourselves.

We are starting Exploration to 1850's this school year, 2012-2013 using My Father's World curriculum.

In the past, we have enjoyed the 'MFW Adventures' and 'Exploring Countries and Cultures', and 'Creation to the Greeks',

Rome to the Reformation,

Exploration to the 1850's and NOW.........

1850's to MODERN TIMES !!

Below is the week by week of lessons for this year if you'd like to start at the beginning.

There is also a handy LABELS area that you can peek through to find a specific lesson.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

This year at the CHEA convention, I was mesmerized by the folks at

Exploration Education. Their experiments were all set up and

running with videos and hands-on kits. My backgound is in science,

(confessions of a former chemist) and we LOVE experiments

around the Pam house. My kids beg to do science- all the better

if it's wet, sticky, colorful, magnetic, glowing, alive or generally

messy! I bought two of the levels so that I can cover all the bases

between K and 4th grade. We are going to build some machines,

a circuit, and make some crystals!

What's the most important thing to learn in Chemistry?

::Never lick the spoon!::

Lighting the Fire