Microscope Fun
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008So tonight we did like most families in the USA do (I’m sure) and gathered around the microscope for clean, family fun! I won’t tell you what all was donated to put under the lens, but some of the donations, once magnified, did cause mouths to fall open…

and eyes to pop…

Someone (it might have been me) suggested we go out with the flashlight and get a plastic spoonful of dirt from the compost. We put it on the glass slide and WHOA, there were little white creatures that could crawl and jump. Really jump. They looked to the naked eye like pieces of dandruff, but under the microscope, they looked like this:

Needless to say, we all panicked and rushed the compost dirt back outside, but I think tomorrow we’ll have to get brave and bring the dirt in again and take another look.
Lynn
PS - Thanks to Steve Hopkin for the awesome collembola picture.




The Hundred Dresses
The Family Under the Bridge
Caddie Woodlawn. With the Wisconsin big woods theme, goes along great with a FIAR study of The Raft.
A Year Down Yonder
A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning
Pocketful of Pinecones: Nature Study With the Gentle Art of Learning: A Story for Mother Culture. Sweet fictional story about a newly homeschooling mother who incorporates nature study.
Nature Crafts for Kids: 50 Fantastic Things to Make With Mother Nature's Help
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
At Hanka's Table
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Awakening Beauty the Dr. Hauschka Way
A Redbird Christmas: A Novel
The Usborne Internet-Linked Book of Knowledge
What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know
for you to leave a comment, but you can also e-mail me at lynn AT thehealthyhomeschool.com


