It really doesn't matter what order "school" happens in !

Backpeddling. Sometimes that is what I do best. I really try to be organized and on top of life -but in reality it rarely happens.

About a month before our Hawaii trip, I thought to myself.... "Hmmmm, we haven't really done any science to speak of this year, better do something !" If there is one subject I could put off it would be science !

So, I went to the shelves of science materials that I have "acquired from various sources" and pulled out Great Science Adventures: Discovering Earth's Landforms and Surface Features by Dinah Zike. Landforms, surface features... hey I am golden with the Hawaii trip coming up. This totally works.

We began the unit by Dinah Zike. It took me almost three days to figure out how to fold all these little "books" that is the "reading part of the unit". But, I got it and we were off. We tried to do science daily but it ended up being more like "when the mood hit us". We had about 1/3 of the lessons done before Hawaii, however we hadn't gotten to volcanoes. Now, if I only looked ahead, but I was juggling WAY TOO MUCH in my life that week. We were only 2 lessons away !

Fast forward to yesterday, I decide we should do some science. I pull out the curriculum and WALLA I see the lesson on volcanoes. We do it immediately ! I go downstairs remembering I bought a SMITHSONIAN GIANT VOLCANO model at a used curriculum sale that was never opened. We open that baby up and start building ! What fun we had ! It was messy (Shayna's favorite thing) and fun ! Shayna decided to paint it green to represent the trees and grass that we saw all over the Mauna Loa Volcano on the "Big Island of Hawaii". It is now ready to EXPLODE however, we decided to wait and perform the "magic" in front of dad !

Even the best laid plans don't always work out ! We didn't do the volcano before Hawaii - but it really didn't matter ! Shayna had a great deal of "prior knowledge" for this lesson and we had tremendous fun anyway !