We had my best friend's family come for "Candy School". I got the idea from here. We used several of her printables. I'll try to post some pictures later. My friend took many and is going to get them to me.
http://www.walkingbytheway.com/blog/
We did many of the same activities, but I did tweak a few for our kids that were older.
Here's what we did:
Scripture Copywork (Psalm 34:8)
Poetry (read some and wrote our own)
M&M color count (predicting, number patterns, etc.)
Acid Test http://www.candyexperiments.com/
Graphing with survey results (we used this for pie charts: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createAgraph/ )
History of Chocolate http://www.librarything.com/work/855015
Fractions with Hershey bars http://www.amazon.com/Hersheys-Milk-Chocolate-Fractions-Book/dp/0439135192
Chromotography (experiment site above)
Floating M's & S's (experiment site above)
Candy math including word problems and weight measurement activities
(addition, subtraction, equation word problems for older; balance scale to arrange several candies in order of weight, figuring average weight of 1 nerd)
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So glad you like the experiments, and your math activities sound fun. My kids love weighing things, too. And average weight of 1 nerd sounds like a great activity, we'll have to try it.
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