Have I told you all how much I love, love, love Explode the Code??  Well, I do and it’s because Belle is doing so well with the books.  Seriously, she is like a reading maniac right now and that is fantastic!!  I’m just thrilled!!
Jake has been reviewing fractions these past couple of days.  He doesn’t […]

Seriously folks, I’m going to have to confess something. I am soooooo over studying about Ancient Greece and we’ve only hit the tip of the iceberg…bleh! I think we will take a few review days and then move on…before I croak. We’ve covered things well and even dug in a little deeper […]

As I was looking through TerraCycle’s site just a bit ago, I noticed that they have provided a nice curriculum to go along with their birdfeeder. TerraCycle is new to me…just saw the company featured on a tv show. Basically, they produce organic fertilizers, potting soil and plant food. The main […]

Today we read a neat book titled Archimedes Takes a Bath by Joan M. Lexau.
We’ve heard the stories about Archimedes, but this one had a different story line than the others.  In this book, a young slave boy, Xanthias, was given the job of making Archimedes eat and bathe.  Apparently, Archimedes was not in favor […]

 
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I love bingo and really, I need to use it more often when reviewing because all the kids love it too! Today, we played Mars Bingo and had a great time. We were only able to play two games…one blackout and one straight-line, but it was enough to learn some new words and […]

Mars Exploration Rover Spirit
photo courtesy of NASA

Mars Rover airbags
photo courtesy of NASA
Yesterday, we started our study of Mars. We talked about what it would be like to live in a habitat on Mars and we watched this neat video of the Mars Rover. Actually, it’s an simulation showing the rover landed and how […]

This Thursday and Friday nights (Dec. 13-14) are supposed to be the best nights to view the Geminid meteor shower.  The moon will be in the waxing crescent phase so it should be fairly dark which will make seeing the meteor shower easy!  Of course, we are supposed to have rain those two days so […]

Completed Lapbooks
 

Vocabulary Flapbook
 

Creation Sequence Cards
 

Creation Cards in Pocket
 
 

These are most of the links I used to gather all the elements for our books. As usual, there were some sites I failed to bookmark so those didn’t make it onto the list. Don’t forget that there are more links in the previous […]