Archive for August 11th, 2008

What’s Our Project?

Monday, August 11th, 2008

What’s our project this week?
The lucky find of a lawnmower box at Lowe’s yesterday set us off on a brainstorming session for this delightful project. (Our Lowe’s no longer saves appliance boxes, even upon request, because they’ve had too many people ask for them and never return to pick them up. JediBoy spotted [...]

Unplug Your Kids: Hot

Monday, August 11th, 2008

The Unplug theme of the week (HOT!) gave me the chance to pull out this activity, something we hadn’t done since last summer.
We melted crayons with our magnifying glass – and oh, what fun! (Yes, we also burned holes in leaves and lit small piles of dried maple seeds on fire too.)
As we assembled [...]

Learning Notes: August 4-10, 2008

Monday, August 11th, 2008

As of this summer, we are officially homeschooling and responsible for reporting to the state, and I’ve taken to writing up weekly learning notes. This is the end of week 6. Our big news this week is that, realizing how close he was to his math goal (finishing Alpha and starting Beta), [...]