"Explorer Spirit…Servant Heart…"
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Apr 25th, 2010
We are having fun continuing our lessons on magnets. Here are three experiments we performed… We had three different shapes of magnets: bar, square, round. We measured the pull of each magnet by placing a paper clip at the end of a ruler and slowly moving each magnet along the ruler, measuring the length at […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Apr 25th, 2010
This art lesson involved making pinch pots. The boys deviated from the traditional bowl… ‘R’ made a heart and ‘A’ made a horn, or a spoon, or a smoking pipe. He can’t decide which one it is 🙂
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Apr 9th, 2010
What a neat field trip! And what a fun dentist office! The theme of the office is Hawaiian, and it was done well… Playing in the lobby, waiting to begin… Some of our BHN kids… Did you notice how the dentist chairs are surfboards? Showing the kids how to brush their teeth properly… Demonstrating the […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Apr 6th, 2010
Today we learned about magents. One of the experiments was to test different items to see if magnets were attracted to them. Here are our findings… We made a game, called the "Matching Socks" game. The boys colored paper socks, each pair with their own unique design. Then we placed a paper clip on each […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Mar 28th, 2010
This art lesson introduced us to Bas Relief (pron. baw-relief). This is a sculpture technique in which the design is just barely more prominent than the background. Example I told the boys to keep the design simple for their bas reflief project. ‘A’ made a cactus… ‘R’ made a race car going over the finish line and the […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL, SERVE on Mar 22nd, 2010
This is one of the things that I just LOVE about homeschooling! Today, our group went to a care home for Alzheimer’s residents. This is a place that our group visits about once every three months. The boys love going there and the residents love to see the kids. Today, the son of one of […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Mar 17th, 2010
I took the boys to their first ballet! Our homeschool group coordinated an outing. How perfect that it was the "Wizard of Oz." We had just read the book about three months ago, and they had seen the movie a couple of years ago, and remember much of it. We were able to see first hand […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Mar 14th, 2010
Today, we were talking about our amazing bodies and all the systems, and within the systems, organs, and within the organs, cells… I had asked the boys what they like about their bodies and they both responded that they liked that they could run and use their muscles and that they had teeth to be […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Mar 10th, 2010
This art project was to draw an animal that lives near water. ‘A’ chose a duck; ‘R’ chose a lion…
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Mar 1st, 2010
I took a bunny trail today from our science reading, and discovered some really neat experiments on YouTube that are performed by Steve Spangler. His website is: http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/