Here are some highlights from our Dinosaur learning activities. Pixie reading in the Dino Cave. Bug working on a journal page about T-Rex. One of the Dino puzzles I keep tripping on. Bug making Play-Dough Dinos. Bug learning about how lizards get energy from food. Bug playing with some …
Our wonderful Boxasaurus project was inspired by Bug. We are enjoying some child led, project based learning right now in our homeschooling, and we are learning so much about dinosaurs. We hope you are inspired by our Boxasaurus Dinosaur Project Based Learning Activity. Dinosaur Project Based Learning Activity Bug is totally getting into the whole …
This past weekend we celebrated… but today is the big day. With the oh-so common Mommy Bittersweet feelings that always seem come with birthdays, I welcome my youngest munchkin to the age of two. My dear little Pixie girl, Happy Birthday!
Opening their new school year sketch books that they will use for nature studies and as a journal for their narrations and illustrations. Decorating their new sketch books with stickers. Here are just a few photos of our cleaned up toy room.
Note: Tutorial for the peasant skirt can be found HERE. It seems like lately everything I make for Pixie turns out too big and ends up in Fairy’s possession. I think, in part, this is a fear of making something too small with no one else to hand it down to, but it also has a lot …
…which really means it has been anything but quiet around here. Not the craziness of our July travels but still a lot of projects in the works. First, we had our Annual Girl Trip on Monday. Not quite as long (or spendy) as some years but enjoyable and Fairy keeps asking when the next one …
Part Two: The Legend of Sleeping Bear This quite a sad story actually. A Mother Bear and her two bear cubs fled fires in the Chicago area and attempted to swim across the lake. The Mother bear kept looking back at her cubs as they went. When she finally reached the other side she was alone. She …
We actually ran out of jam this past year. I had to resort to buying it at the grocery store. Maybe this does not seem like a big deal to some… but around here it was almost unfathomable. I grew up Jamming. My mom displayed her jam jars with pretty calico fabric tops proudly in the …
