Science Schmience
Friday
Since Friday is usually our only day with nothing to do, we’ve been trying to go on field trips. There was a tour of the state capital we thought about attending with plans to head over to the Arizona Science Center afterword (our membership expires this month – eeek!). Then we got the email reminding … Continue reading
Busy
While it isn’t why I haven’t been writing (computer down, moved photos, just general confusion), we have been busy. Today we started earlier than usual to go see the special Van Gogh exhibit at the Arizona Science Center with a homeschool field trip group. (All right, trying this again. I was trying to blog from … Continue reading
Feeling Arizona-ish
(Well my last post about daddy’s birthday failed to post and then disappeared. In short lunch, art exhibit, zoo, dinner, ice cream filled weekend.) Last month was Arizona’s centennial. Celebrations continue though. This morning we went to see The Desert Smells Like Rain. It was a great production put on by the East Valley … Continue reading
Arizona SciTech Festival Going On Now
I’m trying to write a post to answer the very common question, what is there to do as homeschoolers? I have a friend that is new to homeschooling and I get asked by people who are thinking about trying it. So far the post includes only the very obvious – and I’m not sure I’ve … Continue reading
Life on the Fly
Somehow with everything being put on hold with the holidays, our homeschool group ended up completely over-scheduled yesterday. Never let it be said there is nothing to do around here as homeschoolers. Yesterday morning we had science co-op. We learned about buoyancy and propulsion. After learning about the theory, the kids build boats from halved … Continue reading
From Pirates to Punk
Right now I have one sleeping, two if you count daddy, one reading a Magic Treehouse book and one doing Mighty Mind puzzles. Random. Yesterday definitely had that eclectic random feeling we specialize in sometimes, but added busy. We headed over to the Arizona Science Center. While we’d planned just to walk around, we saw … Continue reading
Non-Newtonian Fluid
Non-Newtonian fluid just sounds so much more complex and, well, scientific than oobleck. Look it up. There are tons of websites explaining it. We decided, after seeing it at the AZ Science Center last time we were there, to make oobleck for science co-op today. 2 parts cornstarch (or any starch I was told) 1 … Continue reading
On a Scale of 1 to Gross…
So today we went to the Arizona Science Center for one of their homeschool classes. We’ve been going to the monthly classes since August. This month? Eyes. All about cones and rods and color bindness and lenses and optic nerves and how eyes work and…dissecting cow eyes. Yup. We spent the morning dissenting cow eye … Continue reading
Sex, Swearing and Sorrow
In the time honored tradition of rambling thoughts and conversations and one thing leading to another, we’ve had some interesting conversations this week and it’s only Tuesday. Most of the really interesting conversations we have seen to evolve out of meandering through ideas. The kids have been playing a lot apps on the phone and … Continue reading
We’re Still Here
It’s been way too long. Got busy, hard to get back in the habit and then seemed to be waiting for something grand to happen to break the self-created embargo. But…lots has happened. As always. Life and learning and holidays and birthdays and the fifth annual family trip to Mexico and well, I certainly have … Continue reading
