Not sure what to do with all that Halloween candy you won’t let your kids eat? I found this fun resource for doing basic science experiments with candy! Now, what better way to use that candy you won’t eat than to put it to good learning use! So here are some photos and insights into […]
[image width=”148″ height=”210″ frame=”simple” align=”left”]http://www.startsateight.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/simple-woman-daybook-small.jpg[/image] FOR TODAY…..Tuesday November 30th, 2010 ANY CHARACTER HERE Outside my window…it is pitch black, and has been for almost 2 hours. I hate the winter with it’s early darkness, and cold that bites. ANY CHARACTER HERE I am thinking…that I most certainly will explode if I can’t make this WordPress […]
Have fun creating a Thanksgiving Acrostic Poems with the FREE Printables provided here! Thanksgiving Acrostic Poems This year I really wanted to do something special with them. We have tried acrostic poems before with little success but I went for it again with Thanksgiving. It turns out that they were better equipped to write one […]
Today I am thankful for an opening gymnastics competition gone well. Our Victors Gymnastics teams had our first competition of this season – Judge’s Cup- and we are all so pleased with a job well done by all our girls! We had 15 individual champions; 113 medal winners in total and a second place […]
Monday: This week brought about another Museum/Music Lesson Monday. The RMSC was our destination this week since we have been to the Strong National Museum of Play the previous two times. The kids were excited to get to RMSC. We spent much of our time in Light Here/Light Now making a large bubble to pop, […]
Today I am thankful for my treadmill. Seeing as I am in this endless struggle to lose and keep weight off, the treadmill can be quite a useful tool. I have not used it all that much because I have lost the weight by greatly altering my diet instead of adding in exercise. But […]
We do not have any K’NEX at home, but whenever we go to the Rochester Museum and Science Center the kids love to use their extensive collection of them. Not only do they have an endless supply of parts, but they have laminated sheet, after laminated sheet of different building directions. I was worried with […]
It has now been many days since I have done this. With the changing of my blog theme has come many more “issues” than we realized. Most of them have yet to be fixed so I hope all will bear with me throughout this transition. The new theme has much potential, but with that comes […]
Operation Christmas Child (OCC) is an initiative of Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian relief and development charity working amongst communities in need in 18 countries across Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Operation Christmas Child is a project that Chloe looks forward to each year. I remember last year she was bummed because we missed […]
Monday: Our kids usually enjoy science and history/geography the most because they are the most hands on. This week was no exception in our science studies. We are starting out this year with the solar system. This week was all about phases of the moon. The kids LOVED this one which is called Tasty Phases […]
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” -Buddha Today I am tired. […]