Of their own accord, Ryan and Connor decided to sit and watch the birds at our backyard feeder this afternoon. Connor first, and then Ryan, pulled up a chair, and the two of them sat for longer than I ever believed possible, first simply watching the birds and then identifying and recording the birds they saw. Writing, math, science – check, all accounted for without opening a school book this afternoon!What an exciting, informative, fun-filled, LOUD night! Connor’s Tiger Cub Den went on a Go-See-It to a local nature center, Hidden Pond Nature Center, in Springfield. Hidden Pond is known for its, well… pond… and the tadpoles, frogs, turtle, snakes, and birds that live there. The boys received a naturalist-led tour of the nature center…
Tin foil dinners cooked in the open fire, s’mores, skits and songs, sleeping under the stars… well, in tents, but after saying goodnight to a sky filled with stars…. I have such fond memories of camping with the Girl Scouts… and my Mom, who was my Girl Scout leader all the way through Scouts. And…
Today we explored the ancient Egyptian art of mummifying. We started our study with a reading of Aliki’s Mummies Made in Egypt, a thorough introduction to the process of embalming a body and the Ancient Egyptian beliefs on the afterlife, and then, we made our own mummies. **WARNING** The following images may be disturbing to…
Reading, Math, Art, AWANA… all in a homeschool day… but it’s Science that’s always the favorite… … even for the cat!
We woke this morning to a light dusting of snow on the ground and rain pattering on the roof. The radio reported a mixture of snow, ice, and rain for the remainder of the day and a host of school closings. Upon hearing this, Connor, our 7-year-old, looks at me and sleepily asks, “Are you…
As a homeschooling Mom, it’s easy to take ownership of every little setback in the day to day education of your child. It’s easy to question your abilities as a teacher on those days when he adds 7 + 8 and gets 18 or sees c-a-p and reads caboose … or cabbage… or casserole. (And…