Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2009 3 Comments »
Phew! Life has been busy these days! Right this minute, Victoria is stirring my mushrooms for the best mushroom soup in the world (courtesy Tiffany, courtesy Moosewood Cookbook), Daryl is prepping the salad, the popovers are in the oven, Anna is watching Alex in the basement and Jack is… doing something clever and destructive I’ll [...]
Posted in Field trips & tours, Fun, pictures, science on Nov 29th, 2009 8 Comments »
We’re back from our Thanksgiving trip to see the in-laws and I’m back to catch up on what we’ve been doing lately. Here’s some pics of our trip to the Science Museum in Sioux Falls with our fabulous HS friend Jeanne and her 3 fabulous kiddos. We don’t get to see them nearly enough and [...]
Posted in Book Recommendations on Nov 25th, 2009 5 Comments »
I am so excited about the new “Wright on Time” book series about the adventures of a homeschool family! Not only does it sound like neat characters but the author focuses on showing how families can be close and they learn about geography and more with every adventure, since each book is in a different [...]
Posted in Daily log on Nov 24th, 2009 6 Comments »
… is full of grace? Hmm. Nevermind. I should never compose blog entries at 1 a.m. when I’m sleepy, particularly when I’ve had to write serious things all day. Anyway, here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to. No pictures. I’m too sleepy for Flickr! We read “Thank You, Sarah Hale” (or something very [...]
Posted in crafts, holidays, lesson plans, science on Nov 22nd, 2009 1 Comment »
I thought some of you might be interested in the Thanksgiving themed articles I wrote for the Examiner this week… Thanksgiving Science Fun is full of T-day facts, easy science experiments and cool info (know how turkey pop-up timers work? it’s really cool and you can reuse them). How Should We Teach Kids About Thanksgiving? [...]
Posted in um... not much! on Nov 22nd, 2009 1 Comment »
We made a thankful tree yesterday and listed things we were thankful for on the leaves. I’ve been paying extra attention to counting my blessings lately and thought it would be fun to do a grateful list for homeschool stuff. Here’s a few of the HS related things I’m grateful for… The library Netflix Homeschool [...]
Posted in Daily log, Full Disclosure on Nov 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
I don’t know if we’ve had a typical homeschool day in our lives and I don’t know if anything could be typical for us since it’s always different. Today may not have been typical but it was an “us” kind of day… We did a hydrogen peroxide experiment on damaged cells to test a hypothesis, [...]
Posted in In the news on Nov 19th, 2009 3 Comments »
Okay, mark this as yet another reason a family can give to homeschool. This mom decided to pull her son out of public school after he got sent home for violating the dress code by wearing skinny jeans. Also banned? Checked shirts. Seriously? Yeah, I might give up on that system too.
Posted in Daily log, personal, pictures, um... not much! on Nov 19th, 2009 2 Comments »
After our busy day at the Petroglyphs on Monday we stopped at the Shady Drive-Inn in Storden (population over 200, thank you very much) on the way home so I wouldn’t have to cook supper. The Shady Drive-Inn burned down a couple of years ago and the new digs are fabulous. We loved it before [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2009 4 Comments »
I wrote up a news bit about our HS day at the petroglyphs and included a slide show of lots of the fun stuff we did here. We had a relatively small turnout (13 kids) but I think everybody had fun and I got good feedback. In the slide show you’ll see the kids even [...]
