Posted in Daily log, Fun, Victoria, art, cool sites, math, pictures, reading on Mar 19th, 2010 5 Comments »
Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to…
1. We celebrated Pi Day with crafts, activities and foods. I know it’s been a few days but I never shared the pictures so I wanted to put some up.
2. We started logging our books for the 100 books a month challenge. Here’s page [...]
Posted in Fun, games, math on Mar 14th, 2010 No Comments »
I know, I put this up so late, but there’s still time to do a bit of Pi Day fun with the kids. Click here for some fun ideas I found and dreamed up.
Happy Birthday to Einstein too!
Posted in Alex, Anna, Book Recommendations, Daily log, Fun, Jack, Victoria, art, math, pictures on Mar 6th, 2010 9 Comments »
We’ve done some fun things the past few days. Here’s a bit of it!
1. We celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday with Seuss lesson plans, a silly indoor dress-up parade, a reader’s theater Seuss script, books, funny clothes and more. I even made a chocolate cake (this time made better despite the absence of dairy or wheat [...]
Posted in Daily log, Fun, pictures on Feb 27th, 2010 2 Comments »
I know, it’s usually 10, but Daryl is waiting with a back rub so I must be quick! Priorities ya know!
Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to…
1. The kids (especially Victoria) have been making handmade beads from magazine pages and nail polish.
I’ll post more about these soon!
2. We’ve been doing tons [...]
Posted in Daily log, Fun, art, crafts, science on Feb 19th, 2010 7 Comments »
We had some fun today despite my feeling profoundly sluglike.
Highlights:
Watercolor snowballs
A pile of new library books
Computer fun
Worksheets for ice cream
Tape on mustaches, beards and eye patches
The elephant toothpaste experiment (in 3 colors!)
Some of which were captured on film. Beyold, the lazy collage version.
Word of the day: exothermic
Now I have a “Cooking Light” magazine, [...]
Posted in Book Recommendations, Daily log, Fun, cool sites, games, math, pictures, science on Feb 16th, 2010 8 Comments »
Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to the past few days!
1. We had a family Valentine’s Day party…
2. The kids and I have been trying out the free Zeus’ Petals multiplication game you can play online. It’s simple fun and recommended. (Note to authors: look up “despair” though.)
3. Jack has been reading this [...]
Posted in Fun, holidays, math on Feb 15th, 2010 1 Comment »
We had fun with candy hearts and math yesterday. I shared the link to Beth’s Valentine’s Day math activities yesterday and we used some of those as a jumping off point.
Some of the stuff we did….
Estimated how many candies would be in each child’s box
Guessed which color would have the most candies in each [...]
Posted in Fun, cool sites on Feb 9th, 2010 5 Comments »
We’re in a bit of a sheepish mood here lately, with all this Shaun the Sheep business. I posted a link to a fun Shaun site the other day and Daryl has found even more. I’ve been putting Shaun stuff up over at the Magical Childhood blog too, and now Daryl sent me this fun [...]
Posted in Fun, science, video on Jan 28th, 2010 3 Comments »
All I can say is wow. Check out this Rube Goldberg contraption that spans multiple levels of a house. Careful — who knows what the kids will dream up after seeing it.
Posted in Daily log, Fun, pictures on Jan 12th, 2010 2 Comments »
Here’s 15 pics of our mini-vacation in Mankato last week…
I’m too tired to tell the stories that went with them, so you’ll have to make up your own. Trust me, they were good ones.
