Posted in nature, nutrition, science on Jun 14th, 2012 4 Comments »
I saw an intriguing picture on Facebook this week. It was of a plate with butter, margarine and reduced fat margarine on it. It was covered with ants, all of whom were happily devouring the butter and staying well away from those evil margarine products. The lesson? Well, ants are far smarter when it comes [...]
Posted in Attachment Parenting, Book Recommendations, Children's health, College and College Prep, cooking/home ec, cool sites, Daily log, freebies, Frugal living, Gardening, geography, Green, In the news, Links, Montessori, nature, nutrition, personal, recipes, science, social studies, support, Teens and high school on Jun 5th, 2011 1 Comment »
Here’s a round-up of stuff I’ve been meaning to share… Fairy Tales, Folktales, Fables, and Folklore This great web site contains hundreds of stories from mythologies around the world. From Finnish folk tales to Anderson fairy tales to parables of Buddhism, there’s something for everyone. This would be great to combine with studies of countries [...]
Posted in Alex, Anna, cooking/home ec, Daily log, Frugal living, games, Jack, math, nature, nutrition, personal, pictures, Victoria on May 4th, 2011 2 Comments »
Oh what a busy week! Jack is now 8, Victoria is now 13, Alex is now 4 and I am now really tired! Here’s a few ways we’ve been learning and playing lately… 1. We had a joint birthday party for the boys in Mankato. The kids were in charge of most of the cake [...]
Posted in Green, nutrition on Aug 19th, 2010 2 Comments »
We’ve joined in with the Eat Local Challenge from August 15 to September 15 and it’s been fun so far. We’re not doing it that we have to eat *just* local foods, but that we have to eat at least one local food per day. So far, our local foods have included… Japanese and heirloom [...]
Posted in Fun, games, Grammar, history, math, nutrition, science on Oct 11th, 2009 7 Comments »
Stuck in a homeschool rut yet? Here’s 5 ways to have some educational fun with the kids this week…. 1. Play Nutritional Let’s Make a Deal. Take various foods and line the kids up at the table, game show style. Give them each a pad of paper and a pen, and show them each food. [...]
Posted in cooking/home ec, Daily log, Field trips & tours, Frugal living, Fun, nature, nutrition, pictures, recipes, science on Sep 11th, 2009 5 Comments »
We’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t had time to post half the fun stuff we’ve done. Here’s a bit of it though… 1. We hand fed some kittens at Nancy’s. Their mother had abandoned them and Nancy has been taking care of them. She taught us her recipe (evaporated milk, corn syrup and [...]
Posted in nutrition, um... not much! on Jul 28th, 2009 2 Comments »
I’ll post pics from the Wilder Pageant and updates and all of that ASAP but I had to jump on first and say just how happy I am to have our Farmers’ Market again! Today’s haul for the grand total of $19.75… One bag of purple beans Two pounds of broccoli florets 4 sweet onions [...]
Posted in art, Charity & Community Good, Field trips & tours, Fun, geography, math, nutrition, plans for the day, reading, science, social studies, vocabulary, writing on Feb 5th, 2009 3 Comments »
We’re firmly in the winter blahs around here so I’ve been brainstorming ways to perk up our HS days. We have HS swimming tomorrow and HS ice skating the next day, but here are some other things that seemed like fun….. 1. Write dictionary stories. Have kids open up the dictionary to random places, close [...]
Posted in Fun, games, geography, history, Kindergarten, lesson plans, math, nutrition, plans for the day, Poetry, reading, social studies, vocabulary, writing on Nov 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
We had fun doing some of the 10 fun things to do that I posted the other day so I thought I’d brainstorm 10 more. 1. Make up polls and graph the results. We’ve done favorite ice cream flavors and colors in the past. We even graphed the favorite colors one in M&Ms (I bought [...]
Posted in Home ec, nutrition on Jun 4th, 2008 4 Comments »
The kids and I have an ongoing applesauce cake experiment going on and it’s turned out to be a lot of fun — and tasty and healthy too! Anna asked me last week if we could make an applesauce cake together and I set out to find a recipe. I found one and we made [...]
