School For Us

After attending a class about insects and arachinds at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, we decided to study more about these creatur...

We are just getting started on Egypt, but wanted to write down some of our favorite resources so far (since I have to take them back to the...

We went and saw "The March of the Penguins" movie at the theater last week (but, Alex fell asleep after about 20 minutes). After t...

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 ...