WE ARE BACK!!!!!

February 21, 2013

Been gone awhile with health issues but we are back and strong as ever....and still HOMESCHOOLING.  Everyday we learn more about what works and what doesn't :-(  However, isn't that just life.  Things we try work and then they don't.  I don't look at it as disappointment or failure but adventure and growing.  What about you?  What did you learn about yourself, your homeschooling, or even your children today?

We are finishing up a fun unit study about Puffer Fish from This Old Schoolhouse's Curiosity Files: Puffer Fish .  This was so fun as we learned about the poison in a Puffer fish - Fuju.  So don't eat that in your sushi.  So many fun facts about puffer fish, it is unreal.  So check it out...it is only $1.  You can't beat that.  Now we are doing a paper mache of a puffer expanded and normal.  Then we will create a science tri-fold project to display.  We visited the Oklahoma Aquarium and saw two puffers in real life.  So much better than we could have expected.  I just wish something had threatened it so we could see it expand and get all fat. 

Started some indoor tomato plants this week using homemade greenhouses made from two liter soda pop bottles.  This was cool.  Check out this website at My American Farm.  The link is to the greenhouse project but the website has tons of agriculture games and facts and information for your children.  We played their games for an hour yesterday.  Educational games I might add. 

I also ordered our worms for our worm farm from EarthWormWorks.com. We are going to start working on the bins this weekend and get their environment ready. We are ready for Spring and ready to fish and maybe make some money on the side selling some worms.