We are planning to do a full summer of science. As part of this, I want to include at least 3 trips. One of those will be taken care of by the Y Summer Camp, but the other 2 will be on us. I was looking at DaVinci Center. It’s cheap, close, and has exactly [...]
Yesterday my son got an impromptu lesson from his father on how to fix a DVD player and a VCR. He got a good look at the inner workings, and was allowed to help screw bolts into place. They played the historic Samurai game again, too. Today we talked about the Vascular system. He wanted [...]
Today we started a unit study called Birds. We did the general anatomy of birds. I had him draw a bird, then we labeled the parts. He had to figure out from sounding out the words how they were spelled. Then, he told me some parts that we didn’t write out *stuck to four letter [...]
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He asked me what rabbits eat, and why animals eat rabbits. We got to talk about the circle of life. I couldn’t find that nifty chart that shows the animals eating the grass, the animals eating the animals, and man eating the animals … but he got the picture. I tried to make it as [...]
My son and I were reading books today, when all of a sudden he pops out with the question: How do they make paper? Off to trusty YouTube for the answer. Which then lead us to how toilet paper is made: How I adore these teachable moments
Today we are talking about S words and the science of the Sun. There are some good pages on EnchantedLearning.com for easy explanations of how the sun works, where it is in our solar system, and whatnot. We are also talking about the Son of God and how He is a lamp to our feet [...]
Well, at least that’s what we saw on a post from the National Geographic photo a day. He insisted on trying to replicate it with his crafty skills: The head was on there, but he didn’t glue it back on yet. It is a proper 3 part spider when it is all done. Gotta love [...]
Being that it is spring and all that, I thought it would be a timely gesture to buy my son a subscription to Your Big Backyard magazine. We got our first one last week and read the entire thing in one sitting. He was fascinated to find out about how birds live, eat, have babies [...]
We had some cooking lessons going on at the house for Thanksgiving. You can see that great adventure here. My friend Sam showed me this about how others are homeschooling in a child-led fashion successfully. It’s in the New York Times. It’s so satisfying to read about things like this. They just help to spurn [...]
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