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 month of November, the boys took a 4-part Lego building class, from the people at Bricks 4 Kidz. The class was arranged by my friend and fabulous homeschooling Mom Lisa, who also hosted it at her house. It was loosely tied to the ‘building things’ portion of the Alberta curriculum, looking at principles [...]
Science Centres That Have Opened in Canada in the Past 25 Years Opening Date, Family Membership Prices and Benefits Telus Spark, Calgary 2011 $204 – $288 (‘green’ for a family of 4 – 6) $320 – $460 (‘gold’ for a family of 4-6) Ad*, News, Rad Ad, Disc, Inv, News, Park, Rad *Key [...]
Why Telus Spark Science Centre has Lost our Family as Members Yesterday, we purchased an annual family membership to Edmonton’s science centre. It cost $134.95 (+GST), and came with a slew of benefits, like 50% off IMAX movies. Membership at Calgary’s new Telus Spark science centre with comparable benefits would have cost our 4-person [...]
I’ve excerpted from the facebook page People for An Affordable Calgary Science Centre that I started. If you too believe science education, enrichment and experience should be accessible to all in our city, come “like” us and join the conversation. Click here. For those wanting only to see the media coverage on this issue, scroll [...]
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 [...]
You may recall my post from a few months ago, discussing how expensive the new Calgary Science Centre was going to be. That blogpost got a fair amount of attention, and led to a reporter contacting me and doing an interview; the piece ran last Friday and you can read the online version (with pic [...]
Daegan is sooooo excited! Multiplication Vacation, the DVD from a company called Googol Power, finally arrived in today’s mail. It’s sold out at both the publisher and Indigo/Chapters (Canada’s biggest book retailer), so tracking a copy down was a challenge. I finally found one used on amazon. Daegan asked me to get it months ago [...]
Over the weekend the boys and I tried out one of the games we have the in house that connect in with our Human Body unit. This Somebody game (most recent version available, see here) was passed on to me from another homeschooler (thanks, Lisa!) whose kids have outgrown it. In this game we built [...]
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 [...]