This weekend, I had 3 extra kids at the house.  I am a huge fan of having friends over – my children are so much easier when they have friends around!!  But the moment always comes….”Moooooom!  We’re bored!”
I was ready for them this time. Impress your kids had a great slime recipe that I [...]

As long as I am posting some fun webcam opportunities, here is one more.

Africam is a website that links to live streaming wildlife cameras on game reserves in Africa.  We have enjoyed watching elephants, leopards, hippos, baboons, zebras and even lions.  My family gets so excited when we spot an animal.  As big zoo visitors, [...]

We happened upon this website recently and have had the best time watching this wild mama (Molly) barn owl nesting on her eggs (and hatchlings).  In fact, last night we watched a baby hatch out of its egg and the daddy owl (McGee) bring a rat for the mama to eat.  This is an amazing [...]

As long as we were working on the letter D in preK, we decided to let everyone in on the fun.  Dinosaurs have been a staple at our house since Lion was 3, which made this both easy and more challenging for me.

It was easier in that we have a house full of dino books, [...]

Since we spent so much time last year on polar bears, we decided to focus on penguins this year.  And we are learning so much!!  Going into this lesson, we knew about Emperor and Fairy Penguins, but didn’t realize how many different types there are beside those.  Also, those little birds can really get around!  [...]

Our family loves polar bears. We’re fascinated by them. In fact, last year, we planned to study them for a week, and ended up extending it into a month.  We had so much fun learning about these marine bears who can swim incredible distances, are loners and are the most carnivorous of their family. We [...]

We have had a friend living in our backyard this summer.  Although friend seems like a strange word, we have spent so much time together, that I kind of mean it.  A garden spider has taken up residency in our garden, and we have excitedly enjoyed our time with her (yes, we named her Charlotte, [...]

We found a caterpillar today, and true to our homeschooling form, we captured the poor little creature, put him in a jar and brought him into the house for investigation and observation.
Tonight we brought our little captor to the computer and  tried to at least figure out what type of caterpillar we were looking at.  [...]

This year in science, we went through Astronomy with the Apologia book: Exploring Creation with Astronomy book.  I have not yet said it on this blog, but I will say it at least a hundred times.  I LOVE APOLOGIA SCIENCE!  It is written conversationally, spans the grades that we have in our home, and is [...]