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 [...]
This afternoon the boys and I headed to Evergreen Theatre to watch a dress rehearsal of their show “Lost”, about endangered species. It is shortly going on tour to countless Alberta schools, so they wanted to do a run-though with an audience and some child volunteers for some roles, as they do in all their [...]
This afternoon the boys and I took advantage of this sunny fall holiday (it is Canadian Thanksgiving today), and went for a long nature walk at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. This gave Jim a quiet house in which to get some recording work done—and I am choosing to be grateful that he has so much [...]
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 [...]
This past weekend the family took part in one of many free “Alberta Arts Days’ celebrations around the province. We were at the Louise Riley branch of the library, where Calgary’s own ‘Birdman’, Andrew Stiles, put on a workshop. (You can read more about him at his blog here.) It was fantastic! He began with [...]
This morning Jim and the boys headed to their weekly Wildwood Running Club, for kids ages 6-12 and their parents. Daegan did this program a couple years ago as well—and the boys are having such fun with it. When I returned from a quick grocery shop, the club was heading back from an activity where [...]
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 [...]
Over the weekend we took a short family break and headed to Brooks, Alberta, about 2 hours SE of Calgary—this was in lieu of a birthday party for Daegan (each year we give the boys a choice between a short family trip or a party). We visited a few nearby sites (more tomorrow), including Dinosaur [...]
Over the past couple weeks, the boys and I have been enjoying some science DVDs in the ‘Backyard Habitat’ series that we borrowed from the library. We particularly enjoyed the ones on City Birds and Deer, no doubt because we could relate to them so well. In fact, right now we have a pair of [...]
Yesterday the boys and I headed to our local homeschooling store, CHER, to pick up some materials we’d decided on for next year. While there, I told the boys they could get one ‘treat’ each. After scouring the science section, Gareth chose this kit, which contains three projects / experiments, including dissecting a (heat-sterilized) owl [...]