Posted in nature, science on Mar 12th, 2010 1 Comment »
Quick — Which bird attacks by thrusting its large claws forward with the aim of disemboweling its target? What mammal popular in the illegal pet trade has poisonous elbows????
Head here and find out!
photo credit: matrianklw/Flickr
Posted in In the news, nature, science on Jan 31st, 2010 2 Comments »
Something about this series of science experiments tickles me. From New Scientist….
Crows not only can recognize individual human faces, but they can hold a grudge against you for years, a new study shows. Field biologists have long noticed that wild crows seem to remember them from past experiences of being captured for ID tagging – [...]
Posted in Daily log, Lapbooks, Toddlers, games, history, math, nature, reading, science on Jan 27th, 2010 3 Comments »
Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to the past couple of days…
1. We’re reading the Felicity books to go along with our unit study on the Revolutionary War.
2. Victoria and I researched opossums for her opossum lapbook. Did you know they’re North America’s only marsupial and they help homeowners?
Opossums help maintain a clean [...]
Posted in art, geography, nature, science on Dec 30th, 2009 1 Comment »
…Before they disappear.
This list from the Mother Nature Network has spectacular photographs and heartbreaking places on the list. Venice? The Great Barrier Reef? The Alps? Yikes. This is beautiful, depressing, educational and just plain important. And did I mention the photography? Considering the pictures all seem to be via Flickr, they’re pretty amazing. Flickr rocks. [...]
Posted in PE, nature, pictures on Dec 28th, 2009 3 Comments »
I took the boys for a walk today and pulled Alex in the sled. It was bitterly cold but bright and sparkling white everywhere. Jack had quite an adventure even navigating our front yard!
Here’s Jack giving Alex a hand to pull him into our yard.
I got quite a workout pulling Alex and sometimes [...]
Posted in Toddlers, cool sites, history, holidays, lesson plans, nature, recipes, science, social studies on Nov 11th, 2009 1 Comment »
I’m so behind in housework and homeschooling and laundry and writing (and getting out of pajamas, if we’re going to be perfectly honest!) but had to share a few good things with y’all…
1. Thirteen “extinct” animal species that were found alive (in pictures). Check out the little marsupial who was thought to be extinct for [...]
Posted in Daily log, Field trips & tours, nature, pictures, science on Nov 10th, 2009 4 Comments »
Today we all piled in the van and headed to Sioux Falls to hit the zoo.
We planned the trip yesterday because I was deep in internet withdrawal and Daryl thought a day trip would help. We ended up getting our beloved internet back at last but we abandoned everything and went anyway.
It’s the zoo, after [...]
Posted in Field trips & tours, Fun, cooking/home ec, nature, pictures, science on Sep 30th, 2009 8 Comments »
We recently got a chance to go to a local vineyard and pick our own grapes. It was such a great experience! The vineyard was right on a lake and just beautiful, but the owner explained that the soil was terrible and not suited for much besides grapes. I didn’t know grapes thrive in lousy [...]
Posted in Field trips & tours, geography, history, magical moments, nature, pictures, social studies on Sep 23rd, 2009 3 Comments »
Here’s some fun ways we worked learning into our foray into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula last week…
1. We tried regional foods for every possible meal, from pasties to Norwegian flat bread to orange-drizzled, nectarine-blueberry salad (which was insanely good, I might add!) and talked about the history and geography behind all of the foods.
2. We drank [...]
Posted in Fun, holidays, nature on Sep 20th, 2009 1 Comment »
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