It's Always Good to Hear Some Affirmation

Today I was on the telephone with a friend of mine - our children are the same ages and are very good friends. She has known me when my children were in public school and she supported me in my decision to homeschool. Her children both attend public school.

As she was chatting with me (from her quiet, peaceful home with no children whining about schoolwork in the background!) she told me how much she admired my decision to homeschool and how she envied the close relationship I had with my children. Wow. I told her how much it meant to hear those words, but I don't know if she really GETS how much it meant to me.

We homeschool for the sake of our children and for the sake of our families. We don't do it to gain approval from others. When we get that approval, however, it sure feels good.
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Oreo Moon Phases

We're all about space this week and next.... today was one of those activites that just "stuck" with my children - Oreo Moon Phases.

Here is what we did:

I found this cute activity at: Paper Plate Education (I chose to put the project on black paper instead of a paper plate, though.)

We read Does The Moon Change Shape? and talked about why the moon appears to be different shapes at different times during the month. It has a very simple experiment with two children, a flashlight and a basketball - it was the perfect way to illustrate the way the moon reflects the sun's light.

By scraping different sections of the Oreo away we came up with phases of the moon. Here is GMan hard at work:

The project just calls for Oreos and something to scrape them with! We mounted ours on black paper so we can show daddy when he gets home from work!

(I think someone snuck a little bit off of the last Waning Crescent moon, don't you?)