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We had a lot of fun at our home-school co-op today. It was team spirit day, so Andrew dressed in St. Louis Cardinals colors and Matthew dressed in the colors of his baseball team, the Toledo Mud Hens. This is a real minor league team, and his little league team is named after them. Today…
It was so warm today, we absolutely HAD to do some of our school work outside! We loved feeling the sun on our faces as we read Bible, History and Science. We also discovered a family of moles digging their way through our yard. It was quite alarming — and distracting — to see the…
I’ve mentioned here several times that I am teaching an Iditarod class at our home school co-op. Well, the race finally began! The boys are each following two mushers: a veteran and a rookie in the 1,150 mile dog-sled race across Alaska. They have tracking sheets to write down the stats of their mushers, and…
We finally made it through the Middle Ages in our study of history. We are done with Vikings and Knights. We have finished the Crusades. And now we are studying the Renaissance. I love it when our curriculum gives us a break from our regular history books to read stories about some of the great…
I have been having a blast teaching my Iditarod class at our home-school co-op. We are only a week away from the start of the real race in Alaska. So, this week, we tried to experience a little of what it might be like to hit the trail. We loaded up our “sled” (aka, the…
One of the other moms at our home-school co-op wasn’t able to make it today, so I got to be the substitute for her class, “Games and More.” Now, this is totally MY kind of class! Basically, it’s a great chance to get out all of those educational games that sometimes get put on a…
I recently added a new subject to our schoolwork. My kids have become masters at making movies on the computer using iMovie. I decided it was time for them to learn to use all of the other programs, too. Of course, they all love playing with the computer programs! For the past couple of weeks,…
Our home-school co-op had a Valentine’s exchange after our regular classes. The kids got excited about making boxes for their valentines and worked hard on them all week. Andrew’s was a Sonic themed car. He is really into Sonic lately and spends lots of time coloring Sonic pictures, drawing Sonic and playing an imaginary Sonic…
We had a field trip today with our home-school co-op to a science museum about 20 minutes from our house. This was a ton of fun. They had converted an old downtown post office into the SciTech Museum, which was full of hands-on experiments perfect for the ages of our kids. We felt like we…
One of our assignments for our Biology class this year was to take the little radish sprouts we have been growing and eat them. We were supposed to divide the sprout into three sections and try to determine in which section the radish grows. OK. It’s kind of funny that my kids don’t really know…
