For our quick study of the middle ages, we started with the Five in a Row book,   The Duchess Bakes a Cake . From that, we discussed consequ...

We spent a few days reading Stellaluna and learning about bats. Stellaluna is the story of a baby bat that gets separated from her mother ...

I think I've mentioned before that Colin has been studying ancient Greece. We have only worked on it a couple days a week so it's ta...

After the scheduled launch time passed and they were still trying to decide if it was too windy, I was afraid this festival was going to be ...

We had such a great time on our field trip to the Lazy 5 Ranch today. We've talked about going since moving here, but never made it. I e...

We are actually still studying ancient history, but I decided to jump into the middle ages last week. I wanted the kids to learn a little ab...

We spent a couple days earlier this week in Charleston, SC. We visited Patriots Point. Here are the kids in front of the USS Yorktown while ...

This week we read The Great Kapok Tree . A man falls asleep while cutting down a kapok tree in the rainforest. While he is sleeping, the ani...

We've been to a Disney on Ice show every year since Colin was 3. I think we even went to two of them one year after a move because the s...

We did the book, When I Was Young in the Mountains , last week. It's set in the Appalachian Mountains so I decided to stay with that the...