Saturday, December 15, 2007

Christmas Gymnastics Display


First Night.


Our gymnastics teacher (who you can see upfront) is World Champion, Natalia Ilienko.

Mom apologizes for poor camera work - was trying to feed baby Ciara at the same time...

We will upload better video footage once the professional dvd of the night is released.



Second Night - Mom and Dad did not get such good seats on the second night, so the footage is taken from under a beam to the left of the floor, and Dad was interrupted by one of the officials during filming.


Science Experiment - Making rainbow sugar using evaporation

Mix sugar and water. Pour the water into plates, covered with foil. Add different colors to each plate. We used red and blue food colouring to make purple.
On the second day, some of the water had gone into the air. The water on the plate was less, and was quite syrupy.
On the fourth day, only a little bit of water was left and there was sugar left on the plate. The sugar cannot evaporate, only the water can evaporate.


When all the water had evaporated, the sugar was dry and we put it on a plate and we made coloured sugar. - Niamh

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Books I'm reading

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Homeschool Christmas Concert

Science Experiment - Finding out how much air is in our lungs

First we filled a bottle with water, and put some water in a bowl. Then we turned the bottle upside down, and put a piece of pipe into the bottle.
Here I blew through the pipe until all the air was out of my lungs.

The air pushed all the water out into the bowl. The air in the bottle is all my air from my lungs.


Tuesday, December 11, 2007

My Wedding

This drawing is a picture of my wedding. The girls dancing are Niamh, Bethy and Simone. The people in the background are all the guests.

Monday, December 10, 2007

Cursive Handwriting

I have been asking mommy to teach me cursive writing, and we have finally got there in our handwriting book.