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 Kindergarten, Jack, nature on Sep 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Yesterday for part of Jack’s kindergarten we harvested potatoes. As far as Jack was concerned we were digging for treasure though!
The kids really had no idea that I had planted two batches of heirloom potatoes in our neglected perennial garden last summer. It was all piled with dead grass and leaves to hill up around […]
Posted in Kindergarten, challenges, nature, art on Sep 11th, 2008 3 Comments »
This month’s theme at Laugh Learn Love is 5 Senses and I decided to try to put together some fun stuff to do with the kids around it today. I decided to tie the activities together around the ocean and came up with some fun activities.
Taste: I found this page about the different ways that […]
Posted in challenges, crafts, nature, art, science on Aug 28th, 2008 2 Comments »
Here’s the craft we came up with for Unplug Your Kids‘ Insect theme (see here for all our resources). It was quite fun!
I printed out some of the basic insect info first, along with the handout about how different types of legs, mouths and such did different jobs. We talked about what all insects had […]
Posted in magical moments, pictures, nature on Aug 28th, 2008 4 Comments »
One of our monarchs emerged from her chrysalis this morning. (Victoria thought from the size of the markings she was a female so I’ll take her word for it!) After she’d hung for a while to let her wings dry we thought she was ready to fly free. Victoria, Alex and I took her out […]
Posted in Preschool, Kindergarten, crafts, lesson plans, nature, science on Aug 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
This week’s theme at Unplug Your Kids is Insect. We’re getting ready to start a craft I made up and I needed some basic information for the kids to go along with it. I found these great sites and thought others might like them.
This 4 page PDF file from the Denver Museum of Nature and […]
Posted in Field trips & tours, Kindergarten, pictures, nature, Daily log, science on Aug 21st, 2008 1 Comment »
…that we’ve done, seen, learned recently:
1. The Penny Experiment
We put 10 dirty pennies in 10 cups of various liquids and left them for 2 days. We talked about acidity and how Coke is supposed to eat the rust off of things because of how acidic it is. We had cups of things like homemade pickle […]
Posted in Field trips & tours, Victoria, pictures, nature, Fun on Aug 20th, 2008 3 Comments »
We’re back from Victoria’s first annual camping party. It was such fun!
The trip didn’t go off without any hitches. My car died on the highway about 5 miles before we got to the park. Luckily we had taken two vehicles since we were bringing two little girls, so Daryl was able to come back and […]
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 magical moments, nature, Fun on Aug 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Magical Mud Pies: 10 fun, free things to do outside today…
1. Cut an old sheet into large wings, have the kids color it with markers, and pin or stitch it to an old shirt. Have the kids run around as butterflies.
2. Designate a corner of the yard as theirs […]
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.