You know how sometimes things just come together in life, with little effort on your part (and other times you feel like a salmon swimming upstream, upstream, upstream!)? Well, today was one of those easy days, as the boys and I headed off for a tour of a local chocolate factory. This tour was organized [...]
Yesterday I was perusing the local online news and they ran a piece about the closing of the old Calgary Science Centre, with the new one slated to open October 29th of this year. The new facility is right beside the Calgary zoo, and they share a large pay parking lot. (Up until recently, parking [...]
This morning we went to one of the CPO’s Education Series concerts, entitled Adventures in Nature. The conductor arrived with twigs in her hair, and a green leafy vine wrapped around her skirt. The orchestra performed various pieces highly evocative of nature, like Flight of the Bumblebee and Swan Lake, and also made nature sounds [...]
On the weekend, after their first Fit ‘n’ Fun class (awesome!), the boys and I headed over to a friend’s house to meet some 2-day-old baby bunnies. It was an amazing experience to interact with the bunnies, and Daegan took to it right away, handling both babes and parents. Gareth was a bit more nervous [...]
Just a gorgeous day here today: warm (11C / 52F and mainly sunny….which is way warm for Canada in January!). Got out for a little walk and enjoyed the birds, which reminded me of the other bit of nature we’ve seen a lot of this winter… Our whole family has been enjoying watching the many [...]
This fall the boys and I joined CHSA for the first time, taking advantage of the weekly get-together of homeschoolers for classes, socializing and just plain fun. We signed up for a science class built around exploring the activities in 4 crates from the Science Alberta Foundation. We began with F.A.R.M.S. (Animal Needs and Lifecycles), [...]
On Saturday we headed to one of the branches of the Calgary Public Library to check out a free rock and fossil show. There were several types of fossils on display, neat maps showing the underlying rock formations (age and type) for different areas of Canada, scientists to talk to, microscopes for getting a closer [...]
The whole family went for an after-dinner nature walk in our local neighbourhood ravines. The ravines are not that wide and are fully surrounded by houses, roads, schools, shops, etc. so I wasn’t sure how much wildlife—if any—we’d see. Am I ever glad I took my camera just in case! Here’s the entry to the [...]
This afternoon Daegan and I joined several other homeschoolers for a guided nature walk, led by a woman who teaches nature classes to youngsters. (We’ll be taking more of her classes in the coming weeks). Gareth was supposed to come too, but unfortunately he has a cold, and his accompanying asthma has him feeling quite [...]
On Saturday we attended part of the celebrations at our local library’s 40th birthday. (Hmmm…another 40th birthday just passed too! ). We went for the “carnival magic show” part, and it was excellent. He was a very good magician, with lots of jokes and humour, and spur of the moment other talents came to light, [...]