Eclectic Parent

After spending Saturday at ASU’s Earth and Science Exploration Day, we headed to the Arizona Science Center today. The kids enjoyed the robot exhibit and spent a lot of time with pulleys and counterbalances. The liquid nitrogen demonstration is always a big hit and this time we saw the fire demonstration as well. I think […]

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I do wish everyone would spread events throughout the year. It’s bad enough that it’s so hot here during the summer, but nothing goes on either. Then every event and activity gets crammed into the cool months when we should be outside.
Today’s choices were Boo at the Zoo (Halloween event at the Phoenix Zoo), the […]

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Last night I saw a streak run past and thought there was a bug in the house. Then I saw a little itty bitty tail stick out of the corner. Gecko. Little one. I went to get the kids to show them before we took it outside. Daddy caught it which led to the […]

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GEOGRAPHY
So D decided to put together the USA floor map puzzle again. This time only putting in states he’d been to. While some have been in quite a bit, others have only been driven through. None the less, pretty well traveled by 8, 6 and 4 - especially if you include Ireland and Mexico.
1    Alabama
2   […]

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Another great thing about homeschooling? Kids are free during the day when things aren’t busy.  D had a bowling birthday party for this 8th birthday. Lots of fun bowling, pizza, cake and fun in the game room. Overall a definite success.
At home he did a little with his electro-magnetic science kits. We hooked a battery […]

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We car pool with another family on Fridays for Casa Vida. Last week their son was giving the boys an explanation of the beginnings of the world straight out of Genesis including Adam and Eve. This was on my mind anyway after reading the article about teaching evolution. We’ve always meant to give them a […]

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I came across an article today from the New York Times called A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash. It’s one of those articles that reminds me of all the reasons we prefer to homeschool. And yes, I did just write that we had given the children the choice […]

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For a long time we had an idea of what the kids should be learning, general interest stuff, and pointed it out to them. They’d either start a conversation or not. Last year we went more unschooly and really let them get into - or not get into - whatever they wanted. While I do […]

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Another trip to our favorite museum. This time we went into all the special exhibits. We started at The Horse. It started with the evolution of horses; I hadn’t known there had been horses 50 million years ago or that they had actually originated in North America. The exhibit also had quite a bit of […]

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We headed into New York to go the American Museum of Natural History. For the first few years of their lives it was known as the dinosaur museum and we never saw anything else. They’ve finally got to the point where we can see other areas of the museum. We brought our three and two […]

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