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Learning about birds at the local nature center, including making our own bird call device. We also met this friendly snake.
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3.11.2010
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Learning about birds at the local nature center, including making our own bird call device. We also met this friendly snake.
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Learning about birds at the local nature center, including making our own bird call device. We also met this friendly snake.
1.22.2010
1.15.2010
My Olympians
We continued our studies of ancient Greece this week with the alphabet, Homer, and the Olympic games. We discovered that although the barbaric Dorians and Sea Peoples (Philistines) destroyed the developing culture of the Mycenaeans, which led to the Greek Dark Ages, over the period of a few hundred years these same barbarians developed their own culture; a culture which looked very much like that which they had decimated on arrival. They learned to read and write, built homes then cities then a government, and pretty much became the Greeks we know and love to read about today.
We've been reading various books and watching some cool videos about the Trojan War, the Illiad, and Odysseus's struggle trying to get home to Penelope and Telemachus. Today we tried translating our names into Greek (hard to do when you have Ss and Ls!) and even held our own little Olympic Games, complete with a torch to announce the date and contests in javelin-throwing, long-jumping, and, of course, a foot race (stade). The girls made their own wreaths from our tree out back and proudly placed them on their heads.
12.17.2009
Lizzy D. Lizard
Told ya. It's an absolute menagerie 'round here. Life science isn't a subject as much as an exercise in tolerance (at least on the part of this teacher!)
12.16.2009
Monkey Rainforest and The Carcass Barrens
A little bit My Father's Dragon, a little bit Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. I love my two home scholars.
---Illustration by Shelby, age 9
Put this in your "assessment" file, Lady! [well, not in the Spelling one
11.25.2009
11.08.2009
Belated Halloween
I just realized I hadn't posted anything for Halloween. I guess we were too busy making yarn crows, drinking pumpkin milkshakes, harvesting pumpkins and gourds, making bat mobiles, crafting pumpkin votives, and going to parties to celebrate the holiday and I had forgotten to post photos of all these fun activities! ;)
11.07.2009
10.14.2009
From the Science Files
Today we attended a fair put on by the Science and Technology Education Partnership. Considering the fact that we are doing the Animal Kingdom and not physics at the moment, I went with the intention of simply instilling the whole science-is-cool/fun/exciting attitude in my girls. It was a decent (not great) event but we all had a fair amount of fun. It helped that we were with friends and we had a great meal (from Simple Simon's) in our bellies. There were alot of schools there though so we had to fight the crowd, which is never fun.
10.10.2009
10.01.2009
Tennis, Anyone???
My 9 year old is absolutely loving tennis. I enjoy watching her patience and discipline grow as she learns to listen to the voices of her coach and her body instead of the voice in her head that seems to expect her to everything perfectly the first time around. They really could use some shade at the matches though. I mean, over 2 hours in the high desert sun on exposed bleachers is not exactly showing much fan appreciation. Am I right???
9.17.2009
8.29.2009
From the Science Files: NaturePrints
This was super cool to work with - and fast, too!
We went to the botanical gardens @ UCR to collect interesting plant specimens to use for this project. Our favorite by far was the evil horned one that the girls thought looked like the saber of an ancient Egyptian god up to no good...
[The other photos are from the other day in the pool; taken from the 2nd story window.]
8.27.2009
What We've Been Up To Lately
I've been a bad blogger but I have a really good excuse: My less-than-2-year-old computer --- you know, the one connected to the $1200 monitor, the $600 printer? The one that is the life-blood of my very connection with the world??? --- Well, it's good as dead. I got a virus. A really, really BAD one. And so now I'm stuck with a borrowed laptop that has none of the capabilities of the old that I was so fond of :(
Today I managed to upload & edit some photos so here's an update of some of our recent activities.
We set up the pool in the front yard in this 100+ degree weather. The girls vacillate between jumping on their boogieboards in the 2 ft deep water and riding up and down the empty street on their skateboards.
We're continuing our studies about the ancient Egyptians, mummifying Barbies and making pyramids out of sugarcubes. I also built this most-awesome model from a book in this series by Iain Ashman/Usborne. (We also have the skeleton and Trojan Horse ones for science and later history studies!)
Finally, we joined a community garden effort near our home. Thus far, we've only toured the grounds and spent a few hours harvesting sunflower seeds, but we are all looking forward to how we can schedule gardening days into of our learning-thru-living lives.
Today I managed to upload & edit some photos so here's an update of some of our recent activities.
We set up the pool in the front yard in this 100+ degree weather. The girls vacillate between jumping on their boogieboards in the 2 ft deep water and riding up and down the empty street on their skateboards.
We're continuing our studies about the ancient Egyptians, mummifying Barbies and making pyramids out of sugarcubes. I also built this most-awesome model from a book in this series by Iain Ashman/Usborne. (We also have the skeleton and Trojan Horse ones for science and later history studies!)
Finally, we joined a community garden effort near our home. Thus far, we've only toured the grounds and spent a few hours harvesting sunflower seeds, but we are all looking forward to how we can schedule gardening days into of our learning-thru-living lives.
8.07.2009
7.20.2009
7.15.2009
6.11.2009
6.05.2009
We Interrupt Our Normally Scheduled Topics...
to bring you something OTHER THAN education and politics.
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