Hi everyone!
Bean and I are SO excited!! We finally have managed to get started on a major science project!! WOOHOO!!
We recently finished up our Christian Kids Explore Earth & Space curriculum and were at loose ends about what to do for the rest of the year. As we were driving around and noticing all the spring flowers peeking out, Bean said, "It's too bad there isn't a science curriculum that just focuses on plants." I told her that I know of one. We went right home and ordered Apologia's Exploring Creation with Botany and all the supplies from Home Science Tools. The kit they sent us was lovely, BUT our electricity here is not 110v. I had to come up with a 220v way to do the light source for the light hut. Off we went to Praktiker (kind of like a Home Depot) where I was told that having a light bulb socket on a cord was not how things are done here. Luckily, another homeschool friend had hit another home improvement store and received much more useful advice. I bought what she said to (the light bulb was almost 13€! Yikes!) and actually had to assemble the connection between the cord and the socket myself (yay me!). Now that I knew we were going to get this thing built, I started looking for pots and saucers. With that accomplished, Bean and I built our Light Hut today and she planted Dill, Peppermint and Basil.
Bean and I are SO excited!! We finally have managed to get started on a major science project!! WOOHOO!!
We recently finished up our Christian Kids Explore Earth & Space curriculum and were at loose ends about what to do for the rest of the year. As we were driving around and noticing all the spring flowers peeking out, Bean said, "It's too bad there isn't a science curriculum that just focuses on plants." I told her that I know of one. We went right home and ordered Apologia's Exploring Creation with Botany and all the supplies from Home Science Tools. The kit they sent us was lovely, BUT our electricity here is not 110v. I had to come up with a 220v way to do the light source for the light hut. Off we went to Praktiker (kind of like a Home Depot) where I was told that having a light bulb socket on a cord was not how things are done here. Luckily, another homeschool friend had hit another home improvement store and received much more useful advice. I bought what she said to (the light bulb was almost 13€! Yikes!) and actually had to assemble the connection between the cord and the socket myself (yay me!). Now that I knew we were going to get this thing built, I started looking for pots and saucers. With that accomplished, Bean and I built our Light Hut today and she planted Dill, Peppermint and Basil.
Now comes the really hard part: keeping my black thumbs out of the project!!
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