. Monday: Our bi-weekly Museum & Music lesson day! We were very excited for this one because the Colossal Dinosaurs Exhibit has come back to the RMSC. Ava is still pretty dinosaur obsessed and she was thrilled to see the T-Rex move and roar. In the photo below she is checking out the stegosaurus but […]
Over the past month we have been given the opportunity to try out Time4Learning. Each one of my children were given accounts that were set to their grade level. The first thing I liked right off the bat was that if we were working in a level and felt it did not suit our child, […]
Last week we stumbled upon an “accidental” science lesson/experiment. Sometimes at lunchtime I will read to the kids. Whether it be Fairy Tales, short stories, poetry, or in this case Aesop’s Fables. The fable that brought upon the science lesson was: The Crow and the Pitcher [image width=”296″ height=”353″ frame=”simple” align=”left”]http://www.startsateight.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/The-Crow-and-the-Pitcher.jpg[/image] In a spell of […]
Monday: Today was our busy work day of the week. We diligently worked most of the day on our “bookwork”. To my surprise we stumbled upon two unexpected lessons. The kids asked me to read to them during lunch so I picked out Aesop’s Fables. This led to a discussion about the lessons, or morals […]
A Day Fifty-One: Sunday, February 20th A A Today Joey came home with my TineBirthdayAnn gift….my new Verizon 32 gig iPhone 4! We went back and forth about spending the money for it. I just bought a new phone in October. But Joey had been saving up money and decided that I should have this […]
Ava has always said she was going to ride a white horse some day! The day has come and Ava got to ride her white horse! 🙂
A Simple Woman’s Daybook A FOR TODAY: Tuesday March 1st, 2011… A Outside my window… The sun is shining, the snow is melting, the “pond” is forming in our backyard. A I am thinking… that if I hear one more child speak I am going to explode! Not half a second goes by and one […]