Today Emily made a model of an animal cell.

Putting the cytoplasm (jello) into the cell membrane (ziploc bag).

Putting in the nucleus (grape)

and the mitochondria (raisins).

The Animal Cell Model. It is missing vacuoles. I thought that air soft pellets or beebees would be perfect, but we couldn't find any laying around today. I'm always griping about them being in the floor all over the house. Now when I needed them, I couldn't find any. Oh well. We'll find something tiny and round around here somewhere. We will probably use beads and pretend that they don't have the hole in them.

Nolan squishing the cell almost to the point of bursting. We're hiding it in the fridge to show Daddy when he gets home.
Today was our 180th day of school so we are ready to take a break. I'm planning on doing a 6-week-on and 2-week-off schedule once we start up again in August. We both need a break to look forward to after a few weeks.