It wouldn’t be surprising, if many of you have already heard of and made some ‘Oobleck’, with your kids.  Some may know this crazy-fun concoction by another name.  My sister says they call it ‘Goop’.

My kids have indeed made and played with Oobleck before.  I first heard about it… Continue reading

My cousin and her daughter (my God daughter) came down a couple of months ago, for a girl’s overnight with myself and my own 2 girls, and so thoughtfully, she had brought some great gifts for the kids! It was so sweet.  It was unexpected and unnecessary, but I do love gifts that are… Continue reading

Although we have a small line-up of home schooling posts about recent happenings coming your way, I’ve been inspired recently to take a little trip down our home schooling memory lane, back to early 2007, when we did a study on chick embryology,  incubated eggs and hatched chicks!   At the time, the kids ages… Continue reading

{A}’s Smithsonian Crystal Growing project was very interesting to observe.

As we checked day to day, things seemed to be progressing much slower than we anticipated.

Especially the yellow, which appeared to be behind the other 2 colors right to the end.

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Our three second graders, { J, O & S}, have been working pretty hard in math, lately.  They were getting stuck on a particular concept, and so taking advantage of the perks of home schooling, we didn’t move on in their workbooks until they ‘got it’.  We had some extra long math classes even, working on that concept.  So I decided we needed a little FUN with math… Continue reading

Last March I blogged about our then 3 six year olds reading their first chapter book, Nicholas – A Massachusetts Tale. Since then, they have continued to do lots and lots of reading, in the forms of shorter books, magazines, game directions, and what books their big sister has had in her gigantic collection for their age.   Since March though, our library trips have consisted… Continue reading

If you’ve been following along with us, you’ll know that this day is one we waited for. (And waited, and waited..).   If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you can read the posts down below this one, because I’m done talking about it. lol. (No offense).

Needless to say, there was a LOT of excitement about beginning our new official school year!  Getting… Continue reading

See latest update at bottom of this post.

9/14:  Guess what we got today via USPS?

And EMPTY BOX!!

I am not even kidding!  A box, from the place we ordered, with NOTHING in it.

The mailman thinks the box must have opened in Springfield, MA—and they didn’t know what was in the box, and so they just sent the box so we would… Continue reading

If ANYONE can believe it, we are not officially ‘Back To School’ yet. I can’t even believe it myself! Yes, we home school. Yes, we keep our own schedules and do as we please, when we please to do it. But, it would please us ALL, to be Back To School, by now!

The… Continue reading

Do you remember, oh say…..a MONTH ago, I said, “I’m going to finish the progress reports and educational plans for the town  this week, if it kills me.” ??   Well, I JUST finished them and mailed them out last Monday.  I’m still alive though.

I don’t know why, but it’s… Continue reading