A chronical of our home learning adventures. We are a Catholic homeschooling family using our own unique combination of materials and methods to provide a fun-filled learning environment. We call it "us-schooling."
I am moving my blog once again. I don't want to get into the reasons why, but the decision is made. i do hope that you will visit me at my new blog. It still needs a bit of work, but most of my stuff from here has been transferred. The comments, unfortunately have not, so i hope you will leave lots of new ones at my new site!
Here it is: Lapazfarm
Please come see me there!
You know you're a homeschooler when you travel to Miami for a wedding and you…
a. Hit Miami Beach to get a tan and people watch
b. Hit the clothing stores for the latest in hot designer fashions
c. Hit the nightclubs to salsa dance the night away
d. Hit the amazingly huge educational supply store to stock up on all the goodies you've been hearing about!
Answer:
I am hopeless…absolutely hopeless.
In the first week of March your son hands you this offering of love…
The Iditarod has begun! Who are you pulling for?
We have our favorites for many reasons (some better than others) and here they are:
Jeff King and Martin Buser. These guys we have followed for awhile and are always on our favorites list. Superboy keeps an 8X10 of Buser and his dog K2 in his notebook. Now that the race has begun, the picture is up on the wall.
Lori Townsend: We chose to pull for her because one of her lead dogs looks just like our dog, Cassie.
Plus, she is from Willow where we spent a summer, so it's our Alaska “hometown”.
David Sawatsky: We like the looks of his dogs, especially one called “Darth”. Gotta love a dog named Darth…
It should be an exciting race, whoever wins.
Here finally are some pictures of the Roman projects I mentioned in an earlier post.
The first is a cross section of a Roman road, showing how it was constructed. I am so proud of this, not because of the quality of the work so much as that it was done completely independantly and he had so much fun doing it. I wasn't even home at the time!
The next is a model of a Roman Aqueduct. Superboy made it of clay, then mounted it on a canvas background on which he painted background scenery. I love the detail on the bricks and the arches.It cracked a bit as it dried, but I told him that's OK, it just makes it look more authentic!
The third is his Eggshell Mosaic. I think it turned out super!
Lots of fun! Lots of learning getting done!
Theresa