Last week I was at the library doing some homeschool with Daegan while Gareth was at his Sportball class—you’ve never seen a 7-year-old work so efficiently, knowing that if he dawdles, there will be no time left for browsing dinosaur books! On the sale table I found this awesome resource, published in 2006: The first [...]
Last Friday night the boys and I did a simple experiment with water and different shaped containers to understand better the nature of science. The idea for the experiment was inspired by an experiment in the Oxford First Book of Science. Specifically, I wanted them to understand the idea of a reasoned hypothesis: in most [...]
We had a pretty good weekend. My parents were in town for a conference/meeting, and my Dad came for a visit on Saturday afternoon. It had been a while since he’d seen the boys, so it was nice to catch up. Earlier on Saturday the boys each had their drama class as well. This morning [...]
Gareth brought home his first painting from his anatomy art class yesterday; the kids drew and then painted realistic human hearts. Gareth was quite proud of his work, explaining to me all about the many ventricles on his painting. Here it is:
Here’s what we had for dinner Monday night. It’s very adaptable to whatever your fave veggies and/or source of protein is, and the sauce is simple and tasty—no need to buy premade. We make variations of this stir fry quite often. Happy eating! BROCCOLI TOFU STIR FRY 1 12-ounce package firm or extra-firm tofu (NOT [...]
On Monday night Jim and the boys put together this tin can robot kit that we’d bought for the boys ages ago (and hidden in the closet, and promptly forgotten about!). Here’s the finished product. I quite like how the opening of the rootbeer can looks like the robot’s mouth: Jim said it was quite [...]
This afternoon the boys and I attended a Mad Science workshop arranged by a fellow homeschooling Mom. We had a GREAT time—the boys chattered about it in the car all the way home! Here’s our mad scientist showing the kids some dry ice, with her flasks, food colouring, and other materials at the ready: She [...]
Jim and Daegan did some simple activities last night about probability. If you’ve got a pair of dice, paper and pencil, and some kind of counter (we used cuisinaire rods, but anything from pennies to beans to bingo chips will do), you can do this too. I found it interesting how Daegan would form hypotheses [...]