Delight Directed "Science" Play

Delight Directed "Science" Play
Mali is always in the kitchen doing "science" experiments. I love that he loves to experiment. . . until he uses up costly ingredients or wants me to taste his experiment. One time he used 3/4 of a $10 bottle of ground cardamom and a whole bottle of…

More Tot Texture Painting

More Tot Texture Painting
~Eliana is 37 months~ Can I tell you how much I love this girl? She is already tucked in bed as I write this and it makes me miss her. Have I mentioned that she loves to paint? She does. And if that is all we did this week. . . I'd be okay with that. And …

Ancient Egypt Unit Study

Ancient Egypt Unit Study
Mummifying apples! This has been a fun unit. We had some independent reading time, some hands on projects, and watched some great DVD's on Ancient Egypt. But, most of our enjoyment came from the two historical fiction books that I read aloud to the kids: …

Nature Journaling

Nature Journaling
The boys and I were talking about what we could include in our nature journaling so we pulled out our Botany notebook and reviewed what we learned about nature journaling. Information we may include in our journaling: Where and When (date, time and location,…