Electronics Learning Lab

So we're in the middle of moving things around and somehow this thing shows up. I had been thinking I wanted to do some electronics and was looking at the Snap electronics but this was here and free. Nothing else came with it, so after a little googling I find a manual and list of parts.  I went to Radioshack several times, priced out the parts and decided it was crazy expensive there to buy all the parts, and on top of that, they didn't have everything. My husband said his dad had a bunch of resistors and capacitors so I decide to wait  and go raid his dads stash. I figure he probably wouldn't have any transistors so I buy one from RS. Then soon after that a box of parts comes over from my moving neighbor. How awesome is that?! It even had the one thing I already bought from RS. Anyway, we were able to put together this flashing LED circuit.

Pointing to the LED

Finished Year 1 Writing with Ease

We started this year slowly, and really just did the bare minimum of Math and Vietnamese. She reads a lot on her own anyway, tons of books from the library. So I had this writing curriculum(Writing with Ease) that we didn't resume working on until Feb( we had started it last year). We did it double time and 5 days and have just now finished level 1. I expect that we'll continue on the double pace until we finish Level 3. It's not really so bad, I think it really is only about 15 minutes for both copywork and narration, not including the actual reading time. I'm using the instructor guide and not the workbooks. I like the flexibility of the instructor guide a lot. Plus it appeals to my frugal nature since 4 years worth of material are covered in the one book.