{"id":1959,"date":"2010-01-15T16:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T23:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2010-01-15T16:48:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T23:48:03","slug":"sometimes-its-best-not-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/sometimes-its-best-not-to-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes it&#8217;s best not to ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/homeschool-activities-28.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/homeschool-activities-28-e1263597492849.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/homeschool-activities-28-e1263597492849.jpg 303w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/homeschool-activities-28-e1263597492849-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;ve had some big adventures with the homeschool club this year. During the first semester, we made ice cream, did a leaf chromatography experiment, performed many light experiments, built a hovercraft, taught many robotics classes, and today we made flashlights, batteries, and built circuits. Richard and I (and the other parents who help out) are really exercising our science-teaching muscles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do you want to know the favorite activity, according to one of the students?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bubbles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(We did this just for fun while the kids waited for turns to ride the hovercraft.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s a good recipe for homemade bubble solution. Ask your pharmacist for the glycerine.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">2\/3 c Dawn dish soap<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">3 tsp. glycerine<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">1 gal. distilled water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mix all ingredients and allow to sit uncovered for four days. It just gets better with time. While you&#8217;re at it, you should try making your own bubble wand out of a hanger. Bend it into a circle and wrap cotton yarn around it so it will soak up bubble solution. You can make huge bubbles with this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s another solution we tried, but it didn&#8217;t work as well as the first:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">2 c Dawn dish soap<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">6 c water<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">3\/4 c Karo syrup (corn syrup)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Photo by my friend, Monica.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had some big adventures with the homeschool club this year. During the first semester, we made ice cream, did a leaf chromatography experiment, performed many light experiments, built a hovercraft, taught many robotics classes, and today we made flashlights, batteries, and built circuits. Richard and I (and the other parents who help out) are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/sometimes-its-best-not-to-ask\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sometimes it&#8217;s best not to ask<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-finds","category-homeschooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}