science fair

By on November 25, 2013 in Homeschooling

IMG_9285 IMG_9292 IMG_9293 IMG_9294 IMG_9297 IMG_9301 IMG_9302 IMG_9303 IMG_9305 IMG_9308It’s good to have community.  Yes, really, it’s necessary, especially when you are a kid.  We have found a wonderful homeschooling group and so far, we have met some very nice families.  Just a few days after finally making that connection, we found out that there would be a science fair so off we went in every direction of this house to work on something for each of them to present.

I’m not really the kind of momma that gets too involved in these kinds of things, (unless its a costume contest where the other parents will be making costumes and a childs work would not stand a chance, then it’s on!)  generally, I will allow them to win or fail on their own merits.

They came up with some very cool projects.  Studies on capillary action, chemical reactions and gases created, photosynthesis and even some homemade chokeberry ink.    All things that we all now know very intimately.  Science is fun like that.  Not the kind only in books but the kind that you go out and find for yourself.

The chokeberry ink may be my fave, of course and I am thinking of ways to use that resource we now have growing everywhere.  It is toxic to eat but handled carefully is a wonderful dye.  I think there will be some yarn and fabric dyeing in our very near future.

 

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These days…

By on November 24, 2013 in Weekly Journal

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This week:

: :   enjoyed many smoothies with homemade almond milk that don’t affect my ear (how we miss our raw milk)

: :   started a few new knitting projects and another boot cuff

: :   finding lots and lots of tiny baby bites in the apples in our baskets

: :   eating pizza for what seemed like almost every night this week and loving it.  Local applewood smoked bacon and arugula, Balsamic sauteed baby bella, kale with parm, and plain ole cheese

: :   had lots and lots of beans to fill tummies and keep us warm.  Soup, chili, on rice, it’s all good

: :  gave Chris a faux hawk just for fun

: :  had popcorn most every night… it’s our favorite.  Organic popcorn is the most inexpensive snack there is and popping it  in our homeraised pig lard raises it to another level of wonderfulness

: :  finally had our first real Saturday clean up with everyone pitching in

: :  savored every minute of nursing with this little baby of mine who is now oh so busy and hoped that the adoring look he gives his momma never goes away

How was your week?

I loved doing these and realized I haven’t done a These Days post since this one last summer.  I need to do this more often.  It is so much fun to look back.  I can’t believe how little Mateo was in the last post.

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