Week 4 for science CELLS!!!

The kids seemed to get into this one way more than microscopes or the Hands of a Child Lapbooks on conception and birth. We did experiments though so that could be it. I also learned that as far as they are concerned they could care less how a microscope works or why or the names of the parts they just want it to work! We studied the basic building blocks for life this week CELLS! Brainpop was awesome as usual for this subject except for the younger version for Skyler, but she still enjoyed watching the older kids movies. They all seem to like brainpop I just cannot say enough about it!

We found out that while cells are microscopic there is actually a cell you can see, an egg! We also learned that the yellow stuff (yolk) is not the baby chicken but what the baby chicked uses to nuture itself. My kids were pretty happy about that one! We also learned about the cells regulating our temperature as well as cold blooded vs. warm blooded! For our grand finale of the Cell Week we made a cell cake that I will say turned out pretty darned good. Even better when you realize I am so not the cook!

All in all for science it was a great week! For science anyway LOL. If you would like to see more pictures you can here.