Posted in Field trips & tours, history on Oct 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
We went on a field trip Wednesday to see “Challenger” No. 3985, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive.
It’s on a publicity tour from Cheyenne, Wyoming, to St. Paul, Minnesota, and back. Along the way it’s stopping at tiny cities all along the route, including a couple near us.
There was already a crowd when we got […]
Posted in Anna, history on Oct 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
We have a big hardcover book of facts about the 20th century that I got on sale somewhere. Yesterday I grabbed it off the front porch bookshelf and left it out in the living room. I heard once that there’s an unschooling term for that, strewing– leaving educational things out for kids to happen upon. […]
Posted in nature, plans for the day, Daily log, Fun, art, history on Sep 29th, 2008 No Comments »
It’s nice to be home for a bit.
Today is shaping up to be a nice lazy day. It’s beautiful weather and Anna has set up a family pedicure stand outside. For 5 cents she’ll paint your toenails! I had her do it outside to keep freshly painted toes from marking up carpets and such, and […]
Posted in Field trips & tours, plays, pictures, Daily log, art, Fun, history on Sep 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
We’re back from our overnight trip to Mankato and packed in lots of wonderful stuff.
We started out attending a homeschool potluck picnic, where we all ate great food and played/yapped with friends until well after dark….
We got to Grandma and Grandpa’s house pretty late, with just enough time to play a little and listen to […]
Posted in freebies, geography, Curriculum, history on Aug 22nd, 2008 3 Comments »
Bringing Up Learners is offering a comprehensive world history curriculum free to download. I checked it out and it looks thorough, diverse, interesting and fun. There are fun read-aloud books, poems to memorize, maps, activities, world religions, myths and several history books that are used as spines.
You can even choose whether to download the one […]
Posted in Behavior, PE, Full Disclosure, Olympics, challenges, Anna, pictures, Victoria, Jack, history on Aug 13th, 2008 3 Comments »
We held our own Olympics yesterday!
The kids started by picking a country to represent and finding its flag on the “flags of the world” poster to copy. They carefully made flags and we taped them to the front of their shirts.
I helped them make 15 medals (gold, silver and bronze for 5 sports). We cut […]
Posted in Field trips & tours, pictures, nature, Fun, history on Aug 10th, 2008 No Comments »
We just got back from a short family vacation to a nearby city to take part in an annual free campout that combines flint-knapping, a historic rendesvous and other cool stuff.
Fifteen fun things we did and cool things we learned…
We bought handfuls of beautiful polished agates, fossils, crystals and other gorgeous rocks.
We listened […]
Posted in cool sites, history on Jul 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Wow! What a great resource. This site has a list of historical movies in chronological order, from early man to Hotel Rwanda and beyond. We always like to learn in ways that are outside the box and this sounds like a list I’ll have to keep handy. I stumbled upon it while reading Shez’s blog, […]
Posted in history, science, reading on Jun 18th, 2008 No Comments »
I was browsing another HS mom’s Library Thing list a few weeks ago and discovered these 3 books. They were on her 5 star list– books her family owned that she’d buy more copies of if the house burned down. I like that rating! We have some books like that!
I ordered them and […]
Posted in plans for the day, Field trips & tours, history, reading on Jun 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
We’re attending a Victorian lawn party at Tacy’s house from the Betsy-Tacy book series today.
Daryl is a volunteer for the Betsy-Tacy society and he has created reader theater plays, scanned books, made coloring pages and more for them. We have visited Tacy’s house several times before for various events and it is always fun.
The Betsy-Tacy […]
I'm a frazzled AP mom to 4 fabulous kids in rural Minnesota. Homeschooling here tends to be child-led and focused on fun. We do lots of crafts, reading and exploring. I'm madly in love with my brilliant, goofy lug of a husband and I don't get nearly enough sleep.