Today the boys and I headed to the airport for a field trip arranged by a local HS Mom: Spaceport! Spaceport is a little-known Calgary attraction, in the airport right beside the food court. It has tons of hands on things for kids to learn about space (and air) travel/exploration. We had a super day! [...]
Over the weekend, we made a visit to the free Rock and Fossil Show at the Signal Hill library. We’d been to one of their shows before (see here), and were again very impressed. There was lots to see, lots to do, and most importantly for my two—lots to touch! There was a nice range [...]
Last Thursday, during our “week off workbooks”, the boys and I headed to the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, one of our favourite places. It was a lovely day, and I was excited to see some new exhibits: ‘Alberta Unearthed’, featuring 25 of the most significant fossil finds in Alberta in the past [...]
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 [...]
Last week the boys and I headed to Lethbridge (about 2.5 hours south) for a few days, in part to escape some home reno work being done. (With Gareth’s asthma, avoiding as much ‘kicked up dust’ as possible is a good idea). While there we made the 10 minute journey east to the small town [...]
Last week we went to another of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra’s Education Series concerts, this one called Music in Motion, which highlighted different musical and dance styles: waltz, tango, polka, samba, cancan, ragtime, etc. You may recall that last month we went to a concert about the sounds of nature, which I wrote about here. [...]
This afternoon the boys and I headed to the library for a one-off Reader’s Theatre class. It turned out to not at all be what I was expecting—I thought the kids would be the active participants doing reader’s theatre (i.e., reading short scripts, of varying difficulty), as I have seen kids do in schools. Instead, [...]
Today the boys and I headed about an hour NW of Calgary to the Cochrane Ecological Institute, a wildlife facility. You can find out more about them here. Their mandate is: The Cochrane Ecological Institute- Cochrane Wildlife Reserve Society is devoted to the preservation of North America’s biodiversity through the conservation and breeding of endangered [...]
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 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 [...]