Pep Talk Video

Here's a video that will make you laugh and make you think! :)

Abraham Lincoln

Tuesday, February 12th is Abraham Lincoln's birthday.  He was a President with an incredible amount of courage and integrity.  He didn't care about pleasing men, but about pleasing God.  He fought against slavery and helped lead the North to victory in the Civil War.  Students, I encourage you to check out this interactive website about him. Click here to learn more about President Lincoln!

Natural Selection

Here is some great writing and artwork about Natural Selection from Cheyenne and Sophia.  Great job, students!

The Scientific Notation Song

For those of you who couldn't get enough of this song in class... it's the Scientific Notation song!

Punnett Squares

Here is some fantastic work from two of my students.  We are learning all about genetics in Life Science.  The assignment was to make a Punnett Square to determine the probability that the offspring of two parents would inherit a certain trait.

Mikala crossed a black pegasus with a white pegasus.  The white fur trait is dominant here. The white pegasus (mother) is heterozygous and the black pegasus (father) is homozygous recessive.  The probability of having a white pegasus offspring is 50%, and a black pegasus offspring is 50%.  Great job, Mikala!

Joey decided to crossbreed Joeys!  He crossed a homozygous long-tailed Joey with a heterozygous long-tailed Joey and determined that 100% of the offspring would be long-tailed, but 50% of the offspring would be homozygous and 50% would be heterozygous! Great job, Joey!

Today we saw our own DNA in an experiment using salt water, dish soap, rubbing alcohol, and food coloring.

That strand below the straw is Joey's DNA!

The girls & Sophia's DNA

DNA models! Twizzlers = Dioxyribose & phosphate.  Gumdrops: Nitrogen Bases. Adenine - red, Thymine - green, Cytosine - clear, Guanine - purple.

Cell Division

Here is a picture from something we did in science this week.  Cell division is awesome!

The Getty

Our trip to the Getty was a memorable one.  My favorite part was when most of you students crowded around Monet's The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light.  I loved that because you all knew what the painting was without me reminding you!  You remembered what we had learned in class and were fascinated by seeing the painting face to face.  I love that painting because it is so applicable to our lives.  When you are two feet from the painting, you can't really see what the painting is or what is going on.  But when you step back and look at it from a further distance, you can clearly see what the artist painted. Sometimes it is so hard to understand what God is doing in the moment that it happens.  But as we grow older and look back, or in Heaven when we see all things clearly, then it will all make sense.  Here are a few memories from the trip.

Claude Monet's The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light.

Did you know he painted 30 different views of this Cathedral?

Pierre-Auguste Renoir -  La Promenade

Vincent Van Gogh - Irises

Franz Xaver Winterhalter - Portrait of Princess Leonilla of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn

A Latin manuscript about Esther before King Ahasuerus, written in Bologna around 1280 A.D.

Thank You, Parents!

Thank you to all the parents to helped with our booth at the Harvest Carnival! Our class very much appreciated it. Also, a big thank you to Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Mellor for designing and obtaining all the supplies for our booth! It was a huge success.