School For Us

We had lots of fun studying Russia. In fact, now that we've moved on, Alex asked if we could "Do Russia" again. Here is some...

Also for France, we've been studying the French Impressionists painters, especially Monet. Monet liked to take his easel outside to pai...

We are studying the Wright brothers (who gained noteriety in France when they showed off their plane & flying skills). We found the inst...

This week we've been studying France. We looked at several picture books about France and studied several famous people. We watched the ...

We've been studying Galileo, and decided to make the Leaning Tower of Pisa using vanilla wafers and icing. Galileo went to the top of t...

We studied Scotland a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures. The highlight of our study was visiting a friend o...

We have now started studying geology. To begin with, we are studying the layers of the earth. Alex made a playdough model of the 4 layers ...

We spent one day dissecting owl pellets. Alex's pellet was a lot bigger than mine, but when we found the skulls, Alex's was a lot ...

We have been studying "space" since Alex took a Junior Astronaut camp in late July. Here are some of our favorite books: "...

We made two castles for Ireland. The first one, the pink one, took a LOT of time as I kept messing up. Alex was expecting it to look more l...