Winter Birthday Season is Over, etc.
Birthdays are wonderful, a chance for stopping to rejoice in the beautiful people that God has given us. Elsie on the 6th, and Moriah yesterday. Happy Birthday, my sweet daughters! (Raquel and Noah kicked off the birthday season at the end of January). I am glad to have a chance to get back to a more normal schedule, however!
We continue to work on the Heroscape reports. Everyone has a rough draft done, but the polishing work always takes longer than I think it will! Maybe next week…
I ordered a math book for Peter this week. Hurrah! I had decided not to get him a workbook until his reading was better and he wouldn’t need someone constantly by him to read the directions. When I announced at lunchtime one day this week that I thought he was doing well enough to get his own workbook, everyone cheered, including him. Samuel then started throwing out math problems for him to solve. I thought Peter did amazingly well, and realized that I would need to give him a placement test. He tested out of 1A, so will be starting his math career in Singapore Math 1B. The reason he didn’t test out further was because of his lack of time and money skills, not math skills. Elsie is heading into workbook 3A when the shipment comes.
If you have artsy and/or sciency tendencies, you will be sure to love this page I just stumbled upon this week. It is a Periodic Table of the Elements, put together by 96 printmakers. Does the fact that I think this is uber cool qualify me as some type of uber geek? I don’t know, and I don’t care. I do care to share it with you, in hopes that some of y’all will enjoy it, too.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Cool periodic table! I should think it would be fun for a youngster to use it to explore some of the properties and uses of the elements.
I did notice, though, that the table mentions only boron’s use as a coloring agent in pyrotechnics. It has a much more common and economically important use in the form of the naturally occurring mineral, borax(Na2B4O7ยท10H2O). It is still used by some folks in the washer to soften water and reduce the amount of detergent needed.
Thanks for sharing this.