here’s what Daegan did with them: Just a short post tonight as I have a lot on my mind. I am realizing that I am at a crossroads of sorts, that what has been so helpful in the past no longer is—I have moved on, grown, changed. I want (and need!) to make room for [...]
Today the boys had their final performance from their homeschool drama class that they had been doing at Evergreen Theatre. The play was about Whooping Cranes, the challenges they face, and what we can do to help them survive. I’ll have a video link to the performance up later, but for now here are pictures [...]
The other day when I picked the boys up from their art class, I saw that they had created colour wheels and there were notes on the board about primary and secondary colours. The boys excitedly told me that the primary colours were called primary because they could be used to create all the other [...]
This morning I gave the boys the same reading assessment I gave them last year around this time. Gareth’s results of last year are here, and Daegan’s here. You can find the reading assessment here, if you want to try it with your own kids. I am very pleased to see that both my boys [...]
This fall, the boys took a new homeschool offering: drama class at Evergreen Theatre. Evergreen does educational productions for schools on themes of science, nature and the environment; you can read about when we went to see their production Flushed, all about the wastewater treatment process, here. The theme of the boys’ drama class was [...]
This fall the boys took gymnastics classes at Southland Leisure Centre, through the City of Calgary Parks and Recreation. Their final class was yesterday. Daegan’s class was called “Tumble, Twist and Turn”, and Gareth’s “Jumping Jacks and Jills”, but as the classes were in the same space at the same time, there was lots of [...]
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), [...]
I’ve been heavy on the maths and books lately, so I thought I’d share some of the art I’ve been finding around the house. The boys take art classes (Calgary has such a large homeschool community that we have a choice of daytime homeschool art classes to pick from), but I have lots of basic [...]
The other day as I was tidying up, I found this at Daegan’s spot at the kitchen table, a diagram of the area of the laptop at (8.5×11.5) 97.75 square lego blocks: I recognized it as being inspired by a recent MathMatters title we read, Sam’s Sneaker Squares (Canada)(US). In it, young Sam has a [...]
Daegan and I have been enjoying James Burke’s original Connections (US) series, which was made in 1978 for the BBC. In it, Burke delivers a fascinating mix of history and science, tracing how one invention, technology, or scientific finding led to others, often in most unusual and entertaining ways; the full title of the series [...]