The Bird Conservancy of the Rockies came to our house to band some of our backyard birds. Unfortunately, we didn’t catch any of the target species this year (chickadees or robins), but the girls enjoyed seeing a house sparrow up close. We had a robin come close, but he was too smart and just toyed […]
Category: Homeschooling
Book Sale
Our family went to the Jeffco Book Sale last night. (Don’t ask how many books we bought – let’s just say we definitely gave some good support to our local library!) A gentleman in line behind me asked if I homeschool! What? I’m not sure how he guessed (other than my many bags of books […]
Kindergarten Graduation
Our baby has graduated from Kindergarten!
May Day
May Day celebration (a couple days delayed since Wednesday was cold!) All the kids made flower wreaths and danced around the May Pole. This was at a friend’s house from church. They hosted several homeschool families for the May Day celebration both this year and last! We all had a great time!
New Curriculum
Our homeschool electives school had their curriculum fair this week, where we could go and check out our curriculum options for next year. And now I just want to be DONE with this year’s curricula and start with next year’s shiny, new books right now. Because new books! At the same time, I am realizing […]
Science Project
Science Project Packed for trip and heading to the airport I wish you could see the popcorn Bree drew; it looks like it is popping off the board. (Adrianna’s idea to use thick foam tape.) And Bree drew a pony with a popcorn cutie mark that is eating popcorn.
Galaxy Outfit
Adrianna LOVES astronomy, particularly galaxies and black holes. She has an entire outfit (including headband and socks) that has a galaxy print, so of course she wanted a backpack to match. Now she just needs galaxy-print shoes.
Snow Mountain Ranch
We stayed two nights at the Snow Mountain Ranch – YMCA of the Rockies. Greg and the girls making hiking sticks for our afternoon hike. What you don’t see: for much of the mile hike to the waterfall (near Granby), one of the children was whining and complaining, often stopping to throw her stick to […]
Digital Drawing
Adrianna enjoys doing digital drawing on the iPad and on her laptop. These are her latest, created in sketch.io (a free online program.) I know a lot of people worry about their kids getting too much “screen time.” But this is a prime example of why it is important that we differentiate between the TYPES […]
Kindergarten
Kindergarten wore someone out (and it was only a half day today!)