{"id":24679,"date":"2018-05-10T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T11:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/?p=24679"},"modified":"2018-06-07T21:57:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T20:57:46","slug":"home-education-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/2018\/05\/10\/home-education-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Education Sound and English"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am writing regular updates on our Home Education journey because I think it will be interesting to look back on, makes me feel like I have some sort of record and to be honest seems to be the only chance I have to blog! I refer to it as Home Education rather than Home Schooling due to reasons I have heard about the history of the term and the way in which I am helping my children access an education right for them that is not in a \u201cschool.\u201d I do admit it is taking up a lot of my time\/energy and I am not getting as much time to blog – but hey my children are more important. Besides things may change once I find the right rhythm for us. In the meantime I am behind on updating about what we have been up to AND there seems to be so much to tell you about that actually I may have to break it up into parts smaller than a week!<\/p>\n

Week Three of Home Education<\/u><\/h3>\n

Monday Home Education Sound (Science)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As we ended the week with science we were pumped up for more. We had already decided that we were going to cover sound and we couldn\u2019t wait to get stuck into the topic (that and my husband getting fed up of the millions of empty milk bottles in our kitchen, wanting to know if I was ever going to do anything with them!!).\"sound<\/p>\n

The morning began by giving the boys some of the equipment that Dave from Cheltenham Science Group had lent us that helped to think about sound (a tuning fork, a thunder tube, a slinky with string, and a sound hose). Then I told the boys to collect as many different things as they could think of that would make noise!<\/p>\n

I got them to write down some things which they could think about as they experimented with the sounds – such as what different ways could they make sound? What did they think was causing the sounds? How could they make the sounds louder or quieter? I think they really enjoyed just generally being noisy for about 2 hours. I didn\u2019t set a time on it at all I just wanted them to let me know when they were done! They then read about sound in our new science book before moving on to the milk bottle xylophone. They correctly predicted how they sounds would change depending on how much water was in the glass milk bottles. If you haven\u2019t done this before simply put the bottles in order with high to low amounts of water in them – blow across the top of the bottles or tap with a wooden spoon to hear the different notes. The 10 year old also observed that if you hit the very top of the bottle from above they all sounded the same!<\/p>\n

\n
\n
<\/p>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/path><\/g><\/g><\/g><\/svg><\/div>\n
\n
View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n
\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

A post shared by Joy Gloucestershire UK (@pinkoddy)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n