Showing posts with label trips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trips. Show all posts

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Plethora

Yesterday we shopped for shoes and enjoyed the Milwaukee County Zoo.

Today - a plethora of things to do:
  • National Geographic Kids - articles on Greek mythology and Ancient Egypt, comics and puzzles
  • Ben 10 Vilgax attacks on Wii
  • Lego Jr Magazine coloring page
  • Build lego dinosaurs and race cars
  • 3DS AR card games
  • Fossil Fighters for DS
  • Dinosaur research
  • Eras of Life poster
  • Outdoor play - "Legendary Sevendary", scooter riding, and more
  • Falafel, hummus, baba ganoush, and couscous salad 
  • Lego Heroica - Draida Bay
  • Discuss lego contest rules
  • Tripod web gun
  • Re-creation of zoo fences with playing cards

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Dinosaurs

We started here:


And then continued playing, ...




reading, ...
  



excavating, ...


watching, ...
 




visiting, ...



researching, ...

building, ...




exploring, ...

 digging deep.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

New! Improved! Up-to-the-minute posts!

I've been changing things up here today. The biggest change is that I've figured out how to post by email from my cellphone, as you can see below. So, maybe, since my cellphone is with me virtually 24-7, I can keep this a bit more up-to-date. Correspondingly, I also may be transitioning more to a scrapbook format, with more pictures and fewer words. On the other hand, since previous posts have been few and far between, maybe (hopefully) with more frequent posts, there will actually  be more words. Time will tell.

A few words about the past week;

Today we enjoyed going to the nature center for a pancake breakfast and to see how maple syrup is made. Did you know it takes 40 gallons of maple sap to make one gallon of syrup? And that syrup can be made from any of the trees in the maple family, including the box elder tree? Just a few of the pearls of wisdom we gleaned today. Another: pancakes come slowly at all-you-can-eat fundraiser breakfasts. Oh well, they tasted good.

Friday I took Viktor to the children's museum in Milwaukee for his "Valentine date". We had a lot of fun, just the two of us.

Tuesday, Eddie and I saw a local performance of Treasure Island, and had a grand time. It has been quite a while since I saw a live play ... and the Q&A after the performance was almost as entertaining as the show itself.

Some other things we have been talking about this week ... fish, what kinds there are, and whether yellowfin tuna would make a good pet (not unless you have an aquarium the size of a house).

We have been playing a lot of computer games lately. Some of our most recent favorites are at physics.com: Civiballs, Castle Crusher, Roly Poly Monsters, and more. As seen in one of the photos below, the whiteboards at our house also get a lot of use, often to create games that are variations on the theme of our most popular computer game of the day.

We visited the bookstore Thursday to pick up the last two in our current series of warrior cats books by Erin Hunter. Couldn't pass up the opportunity to pick up some games, and toys as well as a math workbook for Remy. He picked it out all by himself. It has a shark on th front. Okay. I wonder if it will be used at all? I also grabbed a tidbit from the checkout line that showed how to make Kirigami flowers, which we had fun cutting yesterday.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

First days

We officially started school yesterday with a first day field trip to a nearby amusement park. I wanted the boys to know that the Oyster school would be fun. Just to be sure we were learning something, we checked out a bunch of books about roller coasters and amusement parks from the library on Monday. We read from them for about a half hour Monday afternoon, and tried to pay attention to how the different roller coasters work while at the park. Honestly, though, we were just having a heck of a lot of fun. It was a really good chance to connect with the older boys, and with my aunt, who kindly agreed to accompany us even though she doesn't like roller coasters. E was an inch short for many of the rides, so we compensated by riding the two coasters he could board multiple times together. I rode some other coasters with R, also multiple times and learned ... that either the rides are getting older, or I am, or both. One of the rides I remember being smooth 20 years ago gave me a headache yesterday. Oh well - worth the price, for a good start to the year.

Today, the boys seemed to be ready to learn. There were points over the past few months when I was terrified of what it would really be like trying to teach the boys at home. They seem to appreciate my suggestions for organizing the day, however, and we had a good morning. For the first time in as long as I can remember, I had both R & E on my lap at the same time, while we looked at atlases, and discussed whatever looked interesting. When they got restless, I sent them outside for "recess", and later they helped to plan, shop for, and prepare dinner.

I am sure there will be down days, but right now I am enjoying the ride.