Last week in review

Recently we started learning about Ancient Egypt for history.
For a hands on activity, we made Abbie into a mummy!
This took 2 full rolls of toilet paper, and she felt quite hot by the time we were finished!

And we studied caves and caverns for science. This is a photo of a stalactite we made using 2 jars, some yarn, and an epsom salt solution. Bethany gets credit for the photo! She took it without any input from me.

Another fun thing we did last week was go to the Telus World of Science. We even took the skytrain to get there, which was half the fun! They were under construction, so almost half the museum was closed off, but we took in 3 science labs and enjoyed the dinosaurs exhibit. Here, Abbie is helping to demonstrate a bottle rocket on stage.

Melissa is being chased by a dinosaur...aaaaahhhh! :)

All in all, the exhibit was quite impressive, with life-like dinosaur models that moved, "breathed", roared, etc. They had all the sound effects as well as dim lights, to make it as exciting as possible. We spent more time here than any other exhibit.

The T-Rex was absolutely enormous. Melissa was probably 1/40th of its size!

At one of the science labs, a girl was helping demonstrate what free ions can do. I forgot the name of the machine she was touching. It made her hair stand on end. This was during the electricity lab. They thought this was pretty funny!

Well, in spite of 3 doctor appointments, a dentist appointment, hosting a prayer meeting at our home, and going to the science museum, it has been the most profitable week yet! We are working harder on Bethany's reading and spelling difficulties. I'm praying that my tiredness and headaches will gradually disappear soon too!