Kerr Christian Homeschool Academy

The aquarium is doing great! The plants are thriving and all the toxins appear to be gone.  We still have one fish and plan to add two more next time we visit PetsMart. To continue our dog saga....... (You can read the first part here http://kerrchristianacademy.blogspot.com/2013/03/skippy.html) Skippy spent 3 weeks at our house.  He loved the girls, liked to give Max a hard time, loved to bark at anything and everything and thought Tux, the cat, was great fun to torture.  Unfortunately, he also to a decidedly dislike to Craig.  This dislike started out with growling every time Craig walked into the room.  By the end of the 1st weekend, Skippy was running at Craig and trying to attack his feet.  It ended up with Skippy biting Craig on the hand and hanging on.  Craig lifted his hand up and Skippy stayed attached.  We called the vet, whom we had visited the week before, and were told that there shouldn't be any problems with rabies and to just w...

Lesson 6 of our Botany book has an experiment where you have a control plant and then your test plant.  The instructions said to test sun/no sun and water/no water.  Instead of buying 12 plants and killing 6 of them, we modified the experiment a little bit and only bought 6 plants. We have a control plant which gets water and sun in our sunniest inside window.    Then we have our "test"plants: #1: sun with no water #2: sun and water and extra carbon dioxide in the form of talking by the girls.  For this one, the girls take turns talking, reading, singing, or reciting to the plant.  In this test, we are trying to determine if talking to a plant will make it grow better.  #3: water and a grow bulb during the daylight hours (we turn it off at night) #4: water and no sun #5: we planted #5 outside - nothing really to test except maybe inside care versus outside care - we really just needed a 6th plant ...

Did you know that it's been 6 years since Easter was this early?  It's one of those rare facts that I will recall forever because 6 years ago Z was born. Easter weekend also means LTC - Leadership Training for Christ.  This year the theme was "Going the Extra Mile" and the Bible bowl book was Matthew.   Because Z's birthday was on Friday, we elected to have our family party after LTC.  He did however get a birthday lunch at McDonald's.  He also got to spend his birthday evening watching movies and eating lots of not good for you snacks (you know all that sugar stuff that I try to avoid normally) and sleeping in a nice hotel with lots of soft pillows. We have 2 LTC participants and one "tag-a-long".  The tag-a-long is the child who is in either 1st or 2nd grade.  They are too young to officially participate but Mama requires that they unofficially take the Bible bowl tests.  So they sit in the audience with me while the younger ones are upst...

We have spent the last 3 months trying to get an aquarium setup and running correctly.  We cleaned up our tank and got all new gravel and decor and a new filter, but not a new pump.  We even added a bubble bar for dramatic effects.  We let it run for a month and thought it was good.  We went over to PetsMart to get our fish because our local WM was caught doing their weekly inventory of fish - it involved taking each fish out of the tank and putting them in a small container and the putting them back again.  No wonder there are so many dead fish in their tanks! Aquarium with 1 Mollie Anyway, we talked with the PetsMart fish lady and told her about our tank and how long it had been up and she said yes, we could get 6 small fish - no problem.  Well, we had a problem.  One fish died and so we drove back over to PetsMart (a 30 mile trip) and replaced the fish.  However, they refused to check our water because it had the dead fish in it.  2 ...

For the last Astronomy club meeting, the kids talked about the Mars rovers and how Curiosity was drilling it's 1st soil sample.  The activity was the build their own rovers out of legos. Z's creation: H's  Creation:   C's Creation: S's Creation: A's Creation: