some science and natue study

So we are doing astronomy this year for science and lately we have been learning about the sun. Our experiment today was to use a magnified glass to concentrate the suns heat so that we could melt some chocolate ( yes we sacrificed some perfectly good chocolate in the name of science)

the kids thought it was very interesting an after the chocolate was all melted they moved on to sticks and leaves they could not believe how awesome it was when it began to smoke and then a small flame ...awesome!

we have learned some interasting facts about the sun like did you know 1 MILLION earths can fit in the sun !!wow! and how the sun is perfectly distanced from the earth if it was the tiniest bit closer everything would burn up. and if it was slightly farther away everything would freeze just another example of an amazing GOD and his creation!                                                 

an in-promptitude Nature study! gavynn spotted a web and thought it might be neat to see what happens if he dropped a ant into the web. Well the ant got stuck and all of a sudden this big spider comes out of hiding and start wrapping the ant up we could see the web coming out as it quickly worked. they dropped in another ant and it working it right in with the other and when it was finished wrapping it it drug its lunch off to a hiding spot inside the cinder block after it finished wrapping up 3 or 4 ants and carried them all to its hiding spot then we got to see the spider dig in an eat (or suck out the blood and stuff) of one of the ants. it must have wanted to save the rest for later!my pictures are not very good by the kids thought it was quite interesting to watch. maybe ill have them draw what they saw in their journals alittle later!