Week 18: Twas the Week Before Christmas…

…and we were rapidly losing our focus on lessons. Thankfully, we had a field trip to the Imaginarium planned for this week, otherwise, I don’t know that the boys would have hung in there before our Christmas break.  As it was, they were bouncing off the walls with excitement. So on Tuesday, we headed over [...]

Week 11: Costumes, Pumpkins & Candy, Oh My!

The boys have been really ramped up this week.  They’ve been counting the days until Halloween.  We went to Party City to pick out costumes on Wednesday.  What was supposed to only take an house at most, ended up taking us ALL morning and part of the afternoon.  We drove over THE BRIDGE to Party [...]

Week 10: The Study of Life

One of the activities that inspired our “Animal Unit Study” was the Turtle bread.  I ran across this recipe online, and when I saw how cute it was, I immediately started planning for the animal unit study.  We took a bit of a shortcut with the recipe, in that, we bought bread dough from the [...]

Cam: Future NASA Scientist!

Last Sunday evening, The Discovery Channel aired two back-to-back episodes of ‘Raging Planet’.  The first show was about tornadoes.  The second was about lightning.  We recorded these shows because I was interested in seeing them, and I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss them.  You can read about the episodes here. While they were [...]

The Imaginarium

Aunt Jo Jo and I took the boys the the Imaginarium last week.  None of us had been there before, and since the price is pretty reasonable, we decided to load everyone up and take a look at what they had. One of the things Cam had been hounding me about for months, was being [...]