Beautiful Blogger Award

Thanks to Suji of Funschooling for giving me the Beautiful Blogger award! I love reading about the awesome books she and her son are reading and all the great science that goes on at their house.  I highly recommend checking out Suji’s latest creation, Living Science. I want to pass this award along to three [...]

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What We’re Reading This Week, February 26

M and her dad are almost done with Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith, a book I discovered by reading a review of the sequel, Tentacles, at Charlotte’s Library.  I read it first and then they took it over and we all love it. M and I just finished Clover Twig and the Magical Cottage by [...]

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New Books Abound

After a few orders from Amazon, an ebay find or two, a visit to a museum store, and a look through my friend (and former AG teacher’s) bookcases, we’ve acquired quite a lovely pile of new or new-to-us books recently. Here’s what we’ve gotten: Our own copies of two favorites, Hen Hears Gossip by Megan [...]

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Fun With Friends and Science

We spent a long weekend visiting friends and exploring museums.  We stayed with friends who are like family to us.  They fed us wonderfully delicious meals and put out fun, creative toys for the girls and anticipated all the things we would need.  We got time to chat with them in the evenings, and they [...]

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Off to See the Sharks

We’ll soon be heading to Raleigh to see the Megalodon: Largest Shark That Ever Lived exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.  The museum is having an illustration contest.  Children can submit a realistic drawing of a shark and receive free admission to the exhibit and a chance to win a prize and [...]

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A Homeschooling Day

Today was the kind of day where none of us felt much like doing work when we got up.  C is just getting better after being sick for most of the last 2.5 weeks.  I have a cold, and M is still catching up on sleep after a very active weekend (a 2 night snowed-in [...]

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What We’ve Been Up to Lately

Making a “naked” egg by soaking an egg in vinegar. Helping us see the difference between hard-shelled reptilian and bird eggs and soft amphibian eggs. (Yes, the Christmas-y snowmen plates are still out.) Making imprint fossils with coffee grounds A Valentine craft with the art group. Making lots of set ups with block and animals [...]

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Homeschool Art Group

I can’t believe I haven’t shared anything about our art group here, but a look back through the archives says I haven’t.  So here goes: When we made the decision to have M attend her alternative school only on Fridays for the homeschool enrichment day and become an official homeschool family, I wanted to find [...]

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Non-Fiction Monday: Dino Dung

What could be better than a book combining two subjects which fascinate most children, dinosaurs and poop. Dino Dung: The Scoop of Fossil Feces by Dr. Karen Chin and Thom Holmes is a Step Into Reading Level 5 book written for children who are ready for short chapter books, but it also makes a good [...]

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Cybils and the Top 100 Chapter Books

The winners of the Cybils (Children’s and Youg Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards) will be announced on tomorrow, February 14 (Valentine’s Day).  See all the finalists here. Betsy Bird from A Fuse #8 Production has begun her countdown of the Top 100 Chapter Books of all time. I’m eagerly anticipating each post where she reveals 5-10 [...]

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