Family Reading Roundup: World records, the Titanic and middle-school horror stories
Our family’s reading for the week of March 29, 2012, included the Guinness Book of World Records and National Geographic’s Titanic website.
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Family Reading Roundup: Hamsters, birds, butterflies and cats
Our family’s reading for the week of March 22, 2012, included a whole lot of nature books, including field guides to birds, butterflies and moths.
Blogging about geography and old books with dad (and a very temporary mohawk)
A 1920 geography textbook led to an amazing project for Ashar and Chris, involving analysis from Native Americans to the Amish.
Spelling, shopping and a found bird’s nest
Spelling practice? The only “spelling list” in our house is our grocery list, but that works well!
Rest in peace, triops; long live the winter white hamster
In her quest to bring a winter white hamster home from the pet store, Ashar made a list of all the supplies she’d need and (gasp) did some math.
Our top 5 homeschooling resources
Our top five homeschooling resources aren’t very “curriculum”-based. They’re things like our parks, our library, our 4-H program and more.
Triops, Celtic Nights and Ashar’s own blog
Want to have some live prehistoric pets? Grow your own triops. We did. They’re kind of cool… in a crustacean-like way.
Annie and the Phantom: An appreciation of musical theater
Ashar had her first non-family sleepover guest, and we enjoyed a bunch of musical theater in the form of The Phantom of the Opera and Annie!
Fan fiction, bookstore bliss and making math more manageable
Ashar decided to write her own NASCAR fan fiction story about Jimmie Johnson after building a model of his racecar!