Science with Food Coloring

M’s top request for summer activities was “science where you mix up things with water and make stuff”.  So I ordered Super Science Concoctions, and last week we had fun with food coloring and water.  First, we placed a few drops of color in a jar of hot water (blue), room temperature water (green) and [...]

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Soaking Up Summer Fun

Our June is packed with summer fun – a trip to the beach, oodles of birthday parties, days of sprinkler fun, excursions to the pool, messy science experiments, lots of art, laying around and watching movies, visiting with family, enjoying time with friends who have the summer off.  All that means I’ll not be blogging [...]

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Rainbow

Brent called us all out recently and we had the privilege of seeing a double rainbow.  By the time I got the camera the second rainbow had mostly faded away though you can still see it faintly in the right corner of the first picture.

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Non-Fiction Monday: African Animals

On a recent library trip, one of the girls pulled Caroline Arnold’s African Animals off the shelf and, charmed by the elephant family on the front, wanted to take it home.  Both girls enjoyed the lovely pictures of animals as well as the fun facts they learned.  I particularly like the format of the book.  [...]

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Sorcery and Cecelia

Much to the detriment of housework, planning for numerous summer trips, and the ever-growing pile of Papers To Be Filed by my computer, I’ve been on a reading binge this week. Last night, I finished Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer.  Sarah from Handmade Homeschool mentioned this [...]

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Tidepool/Beach Unit Study

We’re in the midst of our tidepool/beach unit study.  We’ve finished up our other work for the year, so we’re focusing on science experiments, reading about creatures who live on the beach, in tidepools or further out in the ocean and watching Blue Planet. Here’s a list of the books we’ve used so far.  I’ve [...]

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Paper Plate Tide Pools

This week, we’ve been focusing on our study of tide pools and doing lots of art.  We combined the two by making tide pools using paper plates and plastic wrap.  Inspired by these two projects, I made up my own version of the project to suit our needs. First the girls painted the inside of [...]

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