Our flexibility is great!

Well, this week started off with our regular Monday morning doing our reading, math, language, phonics, handwriting, cursive, blah.... blah.... blah. Then I had planned our science and that was to set up our hatchery for our Triops. I have the eggs, tank, salt and everything ready to go and then I read that the water needs to be at a consistent 72 - 80 degrees and that isn't the temp right now up here in high country.

Here is when the flexibility comes in. So, we by pass that and we will do that in May. We have this HUGE chapter by chapter science book and we read today about the astronauts and gravity instead of doing the Triops. And in doing this the girls had a million of questions regarding gravity and the astronauts and Kayla asked if anyone can go into space or do you have to be an astronaut to go into space. From there we got into a in depth discussion of the training of an astronaut and the simulators and the first teacher Sharon Christa McAuliffe to be able to go into space and the Challenger in 1986. I had told them that the "teacher" didn't make it to space and that in fact all 7 of the astronauts didn't make it. They had those bent eye brows of concern and asked what happened.

Thank goodness for the internet and youtube! I found CNN and ABC live footage of it and we sat and watched several video clips of it. One even showed kids in at school with the TV's in the classroom watching it live. I then told them that .............. dad and I did the same thing as them in class that day.

So, wow! What a great learning day we had starting out with science and ended with history and all that was unplanned. I just love the flexibility we have have and the time we have together.

Now with that lead it makes sense to move on to study what is in our sky, the moon, planets, sun and more

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