Light & Pumpkins

My daughters did a cool science experiment today.  They are studying light and color.  We have a prism that breaks light apart, but this is a neat way of putting it back together.  They stuck this spectrum on a pencil and give it a hardy spin.

The color almost completely vanished and turned white!  What a cool way to put light back together.

Our pumpkins in the cellar are starting to look sorry.  It is late February, so they've held up pretty well, but it's time to get them cooked and in the freezer.  There were probably a dozen left.  We got one big batch in the oven today but it will take another day to get them finished.

Today we are attending a tour of the Statehouse with about fifty other homeschoolers.  Some homeschoolers do lots of field trips and activities, but we don't.  We emphasize "home" in homeschooling, but it's fun to do trips like this once in a while.