We sliced them open, scraped out the goop...
dried and roasted the seeds (yum!)
and cooked those pretty babies! The outer shell peeled off kinda like wallpaper....it was almost fun to peel. Ok that's wierd, I know!
Then we puree'd the pumpkin. This photo was the flesh of just one of those pumpkins, so imagine this bowl times 3. Lots of pumpkin!!
Then we put the pumpkin in these jelly strainer bags and squeezed (and squeezed and squeezed) to get as much of the liquid out as we could. I haven't done this step before, but it really helped the pumpkin to have more of the texture of canned pumpkin.
There was an amazing amount of liquid. Most of it we threw out, some of it we put on Jackson's food (after finding out that he REALLY likes pumpkin! Such a healthy puppy! :-) )and some I froze in jars to cook pasta in or something. All in all, I ended up with the equivalent of 7 cans of pumpkin. Not bad for $3!! And I used some for some gluten-free pumpkin muffins with a mix that Michael brought home from work and they were AWESOME!!!Now to everyone elses projects.
A couple of weeks before Christmas break, Josiah's assignment for the weekly presentation at Classical Conversations was to make a painting with oil paints and tell about it and which of the five elements of drawing were used in the painting. Now, really folks WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND gives an assignment to use OIL PAINTS to a bunch of kiddos. But who am I to not follow the rules?? And Hobby Lobby had them on sale that week, so we got Josiah the combo pack and set him to work.
We used only cheapola brushes so we could throw them away when he wanted to change colors because WHO keeps turpentine and paint thinner on hand?!?!
The paint set even came with that cute little palate with a place to put your thumb. He felt like a real artist! I think his painting was something like a schoolroom or something like that. It was a little...um....abstract! And hey THAT'S OK! It was fun and we did it!
Well, when it was Jeffrey's turn to do the project, we went the acrylic paint route since we were going to be heading over to mom and dad's and dad had many color options. And because they clean up with WATER!! Jeffrey chose to do a painting of the Crusades and talk about the timeline card that went with the Crusades. Here's Jeffrey's painting. 
Like Josiah, he had a fun time drawing and painting his picture.
A couple of weeks before Christmas break, Josiah's assignment for the weekly presentation at Classical Conversations was to make a painting with oil paints and tell about it and which of the five elements of drawing were used in the painting. Now, really folks WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND gives an assignment to use OIL PAINTS to a bunch of kiddos. But who am I to not follow the rules?? And Hobby Lobby had them on sale that week, so we got Josiah the combo pack and set him to work.
We used only cheapola brushes so we could throw them away when he wanted to change colors because WHO keeps turpentine and paint thinner on hand?!?!
The paint set even came with that cute little palate with a place to put your thumb. He felt like a real artist! I think his painting was something like a schoolroom or something like that. It was a little...um....abstract! And hey THAT'S OK! It was fun and we did it!
Well, when it was Jeffrey's turn to do the project, we went the acrylic paint route since we were going to be heading over to mom and dad's and dad had many color options. And because they clean up with WATER!! Jeffrey chose to do a painting of the Crusades and talk about the timeline card that went with the Crusades. Here's Jeffrey's painting. 
Like Josiah, he had a fun time drawing and painting his picture.Then Jonathan and Jeremy each had projects to submit for their drama class. Jonathan built a model of the Globe Theatre and did an oral report on its history.
I don't know if you can tell, but he put those stage people on cardboard so they could stand up like they were acting on the stage.
And Jeremy did a report on falconry (training birds of prey). He also made 3-D birds to stand up in front of his project...they looked really cool. Like Jonathan, Jeremy also prepared an oral report to give to his class to explain his project.
Jeremy and Jonathan also finished up an economics stock market game project (that I didn't give pictures of...sorry). They were given $10,000 of "money" to invest in the stock market in 5 different companies at the beginning of September. They tracked their stocks all semester and then turned in a final report. J&J's report was complete with stock charts of each of their companies. It looked sharp! Jeremy made almost $1200 over the course of the game with Wells Fargo, Starbucks, Walgreens, Home Depot and Amazon. Jonathan just about broke even with CVS, NuStar Energy, Costco, SunMicro, and Target. They really enjoyed watching the market and seeing how things went over the course of the semester. Their economic project also included an budget for themselves imagining that they had $300/week to spend. Not only did they do a great job with Michael in setting up their budget, J&J spiced the graphics up with a pie chart. It looked really great.
I don't know if you can tell, but he put those stage people on cardboard so they could stand up like they were acting on the stage.
And Jeremy did a report on falconry (training birds of prey). He also made 3-D birds to stand up in front of his project...they looked really cool. Like Jonathan, Jeremy also prepared an oral report to give to his class to explain his project.
Jeremy and Jonathan also finished up an economics stock market game project (that I didn't give pictures of...sorry). They were given $10,000 of "money" to invest in the stock market in 5 different companies at the beginning of September. They tracked their stocks all semester and then turned in a final report. J&J's report was complete with stock charts of each of their companies. It looked sharp! Jeremy made almost $1200 over the course of the game with Wells Fargo, Starbucks, Walgreens, Home Depot and Amazon. Jonathan just about broke even with CVS, NuStar Energy, Costco, SunMicro, and Target. They really enjoyed watching the market and seeing how things went over the course of the semester. Their economic project also included an budget for themselves imagining that they had $300/week to spend. Not only did they do a great job with Michael in setting up their budget, J&J spiced the graphics up with a pie chart. It looked really great.
Way to go guys...all of you! Great job on all your projects this semester.
5 comments:
Impressive projects!!
Those projects look absolutely great! Way to go guys!! We didn't have anything like that to do-kinda glad!! :-)
WOW!
What will be their next projects??!!
Also impressed with the pumpkin
products...You Moores could compete with HEB...
Michael, check 6!!!
P.S.
I remember teaching the Globe Theatre in my 11th grade English classes...
You guys are soooooo far ahead...
Great job, Jennie.
Wow- so impressed guys!! Way to go!
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