It's Pi-Day!

Today we took a short break from the normal school routine to celebrate Pi-day.


Pi is the mathematical equation used to figure out the area and circumference of circles. In fraction form it is 22/7---in decimal it has endless digits. However, the first three digits are 3.14. I found a website that claimed that 22 years ago, someone took the numerical date of March 14 and crowned it to be PI day--and thus, we celebrated the day having fun with fractions, circles and of course making pie....lots of pie!

Delaney and Liam experimenting with paper plates cut into various sizes of fractions.

Creating with different sizes of circles.....I may not be scrap booking much, but the papers and supplies sure are useful for crafting.
Showing off her
circle bear.

Later in the morning, I pulled out the ingredients and utensils needed to make pie crust. Although I'm not a great crust baker, I attempted to teach the kids how to make tender and flaky crust
They each measured and mixed, blended and rolled out a crust for their own pie.

Cailin and Connor chose to make an apple pie. Delaney made a chocolate pudding pie. I tried my darnedest to get Ryan to join us, but he just didn't want to make his own crust. He gladly joined us in the eating of them though....hummmm this sounds a little like the Little Red Hen story.

After getting the pies all made, Connor spent some time telling us about Archimedes. He's the Greek mathematician that is credited to have formulated pi. He also memorized the first 15 digits in the decimal form--- 3.14159265358979

Brianne enjoyed joining in the fun....sadly for her, we squelched her joyous moments to preserve our hearing.

Barry and Cailin made a quick trip to the grocery store to procure the most important ingredient in apple pie eating.......vanilla ice cream! While there, an older gentleman asked Barry why Cailin wasn't in school. He said "She is! We home school." He then told him about our pi day celebration. He said "Wow, I never had such a delicious day in school". Too bad for him, because I know that public school kids have fun like this too--some of the activity ideas got for today were from a teachers idea website.