It’s been a rough week. Giants won the Super Bowl! Plus my Carpal Tunnel flared up. Badly. Like I didn’t want to see a computer by the time last Thursday …
Category: Students
Mythbuster
We just watched the Mythbusters episode where they investigate a 22,000 foot fall. The myth was busted, but all the “don’t try this at home” PSAs were not enough to …
Just like that…
My “first grader” has passed into 3rd grade math. He completed his 2nd grade Math workbook last night. I found these worksheets online to serve as a test. He doesn’t …
This just blows my mind.
This whole year has given me a whole new perspective on home education. It’s been terrifying for me, to not have a curriculum laid out for me. But the kids …
PE with an Outsider
We went to PE with our Co-Op yesterday. And we had fun, at least, most of us did. Backtrack just a bit, to yesterday morning at breakfast. I announced what …
He had fun… I just tried not to completely lose my cookies.
Biology and Thanksgiving dinner, all wrapped up in a flesh-colored package. Yup. We turned the turkey into a biology lesson. GeekBoy wanted to check out the turkey’s neck. So after …
no such thing as a sick day
We’ve actually done more “school” today then we have in several weeks. Yet the fact that we are all sick, some sicker then others, has not slowed us down today! …
NASA Rocks.
Last Saturday (and yes, I’m just now finding time to blog it!) we checked out a rare NASA Open House. Took a “journey into Tomorrow” where Geekboy got to play …
It’s all strategic.
Thursday we learned about eyeballs. We read about the part of an eye, filled in a diagram. Discussed what an Optometrist is and what he does. It was a strategic …
Star-gazing indoors
We inherited a big box of glowy type stuff from Aunt Nani while we were out visiting for Aunt MomoT’s wedding. It took us a few days to clean off …