Clara is Done with Elementary School

 Our Clara finished Elementary school. It's the strangest thing when your baby hits these milestones.

2018 School Dance Festival

Amelia's 6th grade dance

Clara's 1st grade dance

Amelia's 6th Grade Graduation

On May 24, 2018 (20 years to the day after my high school graduation - yikes!) my Amelia graduated from 6th grade.

Such a beauty!

Amelia and her teacher, Mrs. Kanenwisher

Amelia and the school principal, Mr. Becker

Clara Kindergarten Graduation

Clara graduated Kindergarten today.  She really enjoyed school this year and liked her teacher, Mr Walton.

Clara Preschool Graduation

Clara had her Preschool program on May 16th.  She was so excited to sing us all the songs she learned this year.

Clara with her teacher Mrs Heap.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off to School We Go

Sent 3 of my 4 kids back to school this morning.  Well, technically Isaac went back yesterday.

Jared is in 8th, Isaac in 7th and Amelia is in 4th.  Clara starts her second year of preschool after Labor Day.

Take a trip down memory lane with our other back to school pictures.

Isaac's 6th Grade Graduation

On Wednesday, May 27, I attended Isaac's 6th grade graduation.

Here comes the graduate

Isaac receiving his certificate

 A blurry picture of Isaac with his certificate :)

Isaac's year book page he created.

What a handsome kid!

Isaac and I.  Nathan was attending an Activity Days Recognition Night with Amelia.

School Dance Festival 2015

I only had two children participating in the dance festival this year.  Next year it will only be one.... and then we'll go back to two kids for a couple of years.

Isaac waiting for the dance to start.

Isaac's dance

Unfortunately my phone was too full and I couldn't video Amelia's dance... but I did manage to snap a couple of pictures.

Clara's Preschool Program

Yesterday, Nathan and I attended Clara's preschool graduation program.  It was a really cute program of them singing songs they had learned.

Clara and her teacher, Mrs Heap after the program

Nathan, Clara and I

Clara singing I'm a VIP in my family.

Isaac's Science Experiment - Melting Ice Race

Last week, Isaac had to conduct a science experiment for school.  He decided to see what makes ice melt the fastest.  We got the basic idea for this experiment from here.

He started out by filling plastic cups with water.  Each cup had the same amount of water.

Then he put them in the freezer overnight.

The next day, we labeled a muffin tin with tape #1-6.  He used a muffin tin so that they ice blocks wouldn't touch or affect each other.

Then he got the cups out of the freezer and cut the plastic cup away from the ice block.  Then he measured each ice block to get a starting point.  Each block was 2 3/4 inches tall.

Then on to the experiment.  He added the following to each ice block:

#1 CONTROL - he didn't do anything 

#2 HOT WATER - poured 1 Tbsp hot water over the ice block
#3 SUGAR - poured 1 Tbsp sugar on top of the ice block
#4 SALT - 1 Tbsp salt on the ice block
#5 VINEGAR - 1 Tbsp room temperature vinegar poured on ice block
#6 BAKING SODA - 1 Tbsp baking soda on the ice block

After 20 minutes, he measured the ice blocks.  #2, the hot water block was noticeable smaller than the others.

Another 20 minutes went by and he measured again.

Every 20 minutes he measured the ice blocks until one of them had disappeared.  It took 160 minutes.

Here is the graph that combined the results:

Then he combined his research, his graph and some pictures onto his poster board.  The Mom in me wanted to step in at this point and make the poster a little more organized, but I actually refrained. He was quite pleased with his project and his board.

If you do this experiment, did you get the same results?