Star shirt

My daughter seems to be growing so fast. My mom passed on some of my little sisters old clothes for A, and I passed on A's old clothes to my other little sister :). It works well that A is sandwiched between two of my little sisters in age. Clothes keep moving around, and it keeps my apartment clutter free which is good since I have no room for storage.

So among the clothes, we got this faded tshirt and decided it needed a new paint job. :)

 Tada! A put it on as soon as it dried :)

Pomegranates

Discovering the diversity and beauty in God's creation...

SubhanAllah.

Glow Rocks

This morning my daughter woke up with an idea for an experiment...

A's hypothesis: If you colour a tissue with markers and wrap it around a rock, and place it in the fridge, then after some time, when you take the rock out of the fridge it will glow in the dark.

A's conclusion: It didn't work, but maybe we had to leave it in the fridge a little longer.

My little scientist then remembered how her nails glowed in the dark with her glow in the dark nailpolish.

So we painted some rocks with the nailpolish, and got the desired effect she was looking for :).... Glow Rocks.

I wasn't able to take a good picture of them glowing in the dark with my camera, but I think you get the idea :).

Winter Ice Lantern

We made an ice lantern today. We froze a layer of water in the bottom of a pyrex bowl and once it was frozen we added a paper cup in the middle, and used pennies to keep it down. Then we added water around the cup, and put it back in the freezer. Once it was all set, we tore out the paper cup, and put a candle in it's spot. We tried to bring our ice lantern outside but the cold winds kept blowing the flame out. So we brought our ice lantern indoors and placed it on a plate and watched it glow :). This idea came from Almost Unschoolers here.

Vietnam Lapbook

I recently attended a lapbooking workshop put together by a homeschooling mum. I have heard about lapbooking before on the internet but I never actually put one together with my daughter. After the workshop was over I went home and we got started right away on a Vietnam Lapbook. I chose to do our first lapbook on Vietnam since we recently visited there and got to meet our family there for the very first time :) Alhumdulillah.

I loved attending the lapbooking workshop, the sister had a lot of examples mashAllah and I got to see how information could be so compactly and creativity stored in simple file folders. It's such an interactive learning experience and my daughter took ownership over her work and loves reading her lapbook to others. We still have a lot of empty areas but I like that this can be a long term project that we can come back to even as she ages, and add new information.

So far we have info about clothing, food, transportation, maps/location, and also some basic Vietnamese language (numbers, alphabet, colours).