I had to post this, to share how Rob was using the Winter Olympics to work on Geometry. They were doing ice skating 360 degree spins in their socks on the wood floor, but there were also some half pipe rotations that were pretty funny too!
We have been working on punctuation around here lately... You might think that punctuation would be boring, but you would be wrong. : )
We decided to go hunting for punctuation in the wild of books on our very shelves... once we found some, we decided to train the punctuation we found! We practiced using that punctuation in all kinds of settings... then after we had done that, we went all out and planned a Punctuation Circus! K and L were both ringmasters! We invited some friends to participate, we demonstrated commas, periods, exclamation marks etc etc.... we ate popcorn and had some juggling, and then all the attendants got to find and train their own punctuation!
Punctuation- now with bonus fun!
Our Global Adventurers Club is in Canada this month. We made Nanaimo Bars. They were full of sugar. This is how my children and their homeschooling friends feel about a Canadian snack that is full of sugar!!
{I LOVE this photo!} What a happy tribe to be adventuring with!
We are excited NASA geeks around here.
I wanted to share this link- NASA TV-
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=public
NASA provides a live feed, and regular updates during their shuttle missions. Sometimes in the evening, during the sleep period they sometimes just leave up the live feed from the shuttle cameras. With silence. It's just beautiful to watch the view of the earth as seen by the astronauts (when they are not sleeping.
There are only 4 more shuttle launches left!
My friend Chris Royer lives and works in beautiful mountains of West Virginia, where I get to visit several times a year for the work that I do with Hero's Journey Foundation.
I am never there in the winter, and recently he sent me two groupings of some beautiful photos... it was making me want to scoop up the kiddos and drive down to the mountains for some winter fun! Then we got dumped on with the big storm that swept over the eastern USA yesterday, so we have our own snow to play with and enjoy.
Thank goodness. I like a bit of snow, if it's going to be cold!
L and his friend J had a good look around the State Museum together! this model of the earth had interesting text and the interior got hotter and hotter... the boys are feeling how hot the center of the earth is!
On a recent trip to the Indiana State Museum, L delved into the rocks and minerals of Indiana! We both enjoyed looking at the geodes, especially as we had been geode hunting last fall, and found some really good ones. None quite this large though! Woa!
One of our friends made home made meat pies for the Australia Day feast! Meat Pies are one of K's favorite All-Australian food items. She was so excited!
We celebrated Australia Day with the company of friends- lots of friends who came over for food- lots of food! We had an Aussie feast, each family made and bought something terrifically Australian to share and eat!
Our homeschooling co-op meets at our house every Thursday afternoon as I host Global Adventurers Club, which is a fancy name for something akin to "hands on Global Citizens kind of social studies"!
Each month we "travel" to a different country. January was Australia!
Here's some of the kids making Aboriginal dot art paintings.
Here is K working with her robot.
There have been some big blank spaces here on the blog.... so I thought I would play catch up.... In January the kiddos have been continuing the Robots Class at the Central Library. It's been a fantastic opportunity to get into the Lego Mindstorm Robots system. K has a thing for robots, so this class has been an ongoing support to her learning more about this design system.
