Shortly after returning from our roughly 1400km (900 miles) dinosaur tour of SE Alberta and SW Saskatchewan—a tour I am glad we made when we did, as the region has received torrential rains and has flooded badly, washing out sections of the Trans-Canada highway: The town of Maple Creek, SK, which we went through, had [...]
After picking Jim up at the Greyhound bus station and sleeping in Swift Current Thursday night, we headed to the T Rex Discovery Centre in Eastend, SK first thing Friday morning. The boys were uber-excited! I am including lots of pics from the Centre (at the end of this post) as I am sure at [...]
Last Thursday the boys and I headed to Swift Current, SK to meet Jim, who was taking the bus from Regina (about 3 hours E of Swift Current) there after his Prairie Developer conference. We then headed out on a mini-vacation of sorts, heavy on dinos and wildlife and landscapes. Despite all of us catching [...]
Yesterday the boys and I left the workbooks, and did some activities around negative numbers as Daegan has been asking to learn about them. I adapted ideas I found on two very helpful blogs, here and here. I began by writing a problem of the day on our board, leaving Daegan to mull it over: [...]
For a couple weeks now the boys have been expressing an interest in Ancient Egypt, our first foray into people history, rather than that of dinosaurs and animals. Yay! Admittedly, it was Daegan who first brought up the topic, after Jim mentioned a show about dinosaur finds in Egypt, and got the companion book for [...]
Daegan and I headed out for a short morning nature walk before his drama class last Saturday. We saw more signs of spring, including magpies building a nest: Daegan found a patch of ice that reminded him of a map of Europe (France and Spain, UK up above across the ‘channel’): He learned a bit [...]
After we completed the dancing craisins experiment, Daegan had an idea for an additional activity: “Let’s put the dancing craisins in the freezer!” When I asked him why he wanted to do this—as I must admit I thought little of the idea—he said, “I’m curious what happens to bubbly [carbonated] water when it’s frozen.” So [...]
A friend of mine posted this brief documentary clip on facebook, and it is a wonderful snapshot of the breadth and history of Canada-US relations. I hope it gives more depth and insight to my American friends about my country, and why Canadians get so bothered by the fact that (in general) we know far [...]
I came across this site about the periodic table of the elements, and was quite taken with Worksheet 3, as that kind of puzzle quite engages Daegan. So I thought we’d do a little bit on the periodic table of the elements this morning, before tackling the chemistry/geography puzzle worksheet. We started by watching a [...]
Last night we watched the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver with our boys. Overall, I thought it was very well done. It showed the diversity of people, language, culture and landscape that it is Canada—and the underlying respect, gratitude, tolerance and quiet pride many of us feel who live here. Not that [...]