New T-shirts

 Kassidy and Keira asked for a trailblazer shirt. Kassdiy asked for a Ruth Bader Ginsburg shirt and Keira wanted one to commemorate the women's vote 100 years ago. Her shirt features 5 trailblazing women in the fight for the vote: Amelia Jenkins Bloomer, Marie Luise Bottineau Baldwin, Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul and Frances Harper

Fall Garden

 

The monarchs kept me company while gardening last weekend.

Our fall garden looks lovely. The roses are still in bloom. The mums are in their second year now. We have white, bronze, purple and yellow.

Baby Bunting Doll Making

Keira learned how make a Waldorf baby bunting doll the last two weeks. She made one for herself and one for Kassidy. She cut, traced, embroidered, hand sewed, etc with just a little help from me. She asked for supplies to make a doll with limbs and hair next. These are soft dolls stuffed with sheets wool.

 

Science Class

Keira had to find iron in her cereal. Smashing cereal with a meat tenderizer is fun!

 

The boys also had to do a fun experiment for their biology class: extracting DNA from split peas.

Setting things up: water, salt, lemon juice, rubbing alcohol, spelt peas and clear hand soap.

We mashed the split peas in a blender with water and salt, strained them so we would only have the split pea "soup."

Next we added rubbing alcohol and liquid hand soap, stirred and waited for a few moments.

The streaks you see you see are strings of DNA. The longer we waited the longer they got. We were able to twist them around a toothpick. A cool experiment with things you have at home. 

Sun and Sophie

 Sophie is a sunshine girl, in rest and play.

Bunhead

 Keira has her ballet RAD (Royal Academy of Dance) exams today, which were delayed in the Spring due to Covid. 

The bun had to be perfect, and I am sure she will do pretty well with the dancing part as well :)