This week, we have been learning about the four different kinds of "head-footed" animals, the octopus, the squid, the nautilus, and the cuttlefish, which are all cephalopods. We learned how they swim (by jet propulsion), what they eat, what kinds o…

Chapter 5: In which a New Species of Funds, Unknown to the Moneyed Men, Appears on 'Change. Phileas Fogg becomes quite a news sensation with people all over England wagering for and against him in his attempt to go around the world in eighty days. …

~Eliana is 27 months~ I didn't have any activities planned for Tot School this week. I did manage to catch her playing with the dressing bear puzzle. And we did an experiment to see some raisins dance. Check out Leslie's post, called Dancing Rais…

We decided to go with The Whole Story Version of Around the world in 80 Days . The Whole Story series has a unique documentary approach: Complete, unabridged text as origianlly published. Generously annotated with hundreds of extended captio…