We’ve been learning about birds and their nests this week! I was inspired after reading about another family who studied robins and made their own nests. If I haven’t mentioned it before, I LOVE food. The prospect of making a tasty treat with my kids that I could pass off as an educational experience was just too […]
Learning
Where Art and Eating Meet
Playdough is so versatile! This week we’ve been playing around with color mixing! It is so much more fun to discover things for oneself than to just be told what’s true… So we set out to find out what happens when you mix blue and yellow. It was hard work… Mixing, mixing, mixing. Look mom, […]
Arizona Explorations
We’ve started our study of Native Americans. Since my kids are young, I thought it best to start out at the local level first and learn about tribes here in our state before branching out. Making learning concrete rather than abstract is easier at this age. To prepare for this and take advantage of our […]
Horsing Around
I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the term “living books”, but it refers to the concept of reading interesting well-written books by authors who are passionate about their subject instead of reading summaries of topics in a textbook. We learn more and enjoy the process when education is centered around living books […]
Tracking…
Spring is most definitely here in the southwest. It seems so strange to think of it still being bitterly cold in other parts of the country. Because our weather is now in the mid 70’s I’m swinging in to full “outside” time mode before it gets too hot… This dove-tailed nicely with the start of […]
Germ Prevention
As you may have guessed from my recent post, we have been working towards keeping sickness at a minimum this year. The teacher/unit study enthusiast within me, jumped at the chance to use this as an opportunity to teach the boys about germs and how to prevent their spread. I find it ironic that just […]