08:41 – After almost 24 hours without Barbara, Colin and I are surviving. I like to exercise my culinary skills while Barbara’s away, so for dinner I had egg-salad sandwiches with egg salad that I made myself. And Barbara thinks I can’t cook. I made it through only five episodes of Heartland last night, S4E12 through S4E16. That leaves 21 episodes through S6E1 remaining, which I don’t think I’ll get through before Barbara returns on Saturday.
I also did some more work on the Life Science kit. I always order the lab manuals for any curricula I intend to correlate our kits with, and among those are religious “science” curricula from the likes of A Beka, Apologia, Bob Jones University Press, and so on. I always order the current versions, and the BJUP Life Science lab manual showed up Tuesday.
Much of the religious curriculum stuff simply can’t be correlated. For example, one of the “investigations” in the BJUP Life Science curriculum has the students drawing a cross section of Noah’s Ark and then cutting out little human and animal figures to scale and pasting them on the ark drawing. I am not making this up. And then there’s the “investigation” on evolution, which has students filling in a table that lists various phenotypic and behavioral characteristics of dinosaurs and checking the appropriate column for evidence-based versus guess. As we all know, scientists do a lot of guessing, right? Then there’s the “investigation” where students are tasked with reading specific bible verses and describing the animals that are the subjects of those verses. Geez. I can’t wait to get to Earth Science.