Our future engineer – or maybe, architect – hard at work In one day we managed to accomplish something that took thousands of Ancient Egyptians twenty years to do: we built a pyramid… actually two! Of course, our pyramids were not 200-foot tall structures built with 4,000 pound stone bricks, but six-inch high sugar cube…
Today marked the first official day of our 2008-2009 homeschool year: Ryan’s first day of second grade and Connor’s first day of a modified PK/kindergarten curriculum. Our day went well. Ryan was ready to resume his Singapore Math lessons and after our field trip yesterday, was interested to read and learn more about butterflies during…
A new school year that is. Today we celebrated the start of the new homeschool year with a trip to the Butterfly Pavilion at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Our science curriculum for this year begins with a unit on butterflies. As we have yet to see any butterflies, aside from…
Ryan has always loved books. He treasures books, carries books around in his backpack at all times, and has even been known to take a stack of books to bed with him. Since infancy, he has loved to sit and listen to a story, and at age six, this has not changed. He loves to…