School For Us

We went to the Sam Houston Folk Festival on Saturday. There was so much to see and do! I took lots of pictures, so I think I'll just pos...

On Friday, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts came to our local library to do a craft time. The instructor taught us, kids and adults, how to ...

In Botany today we were studying the differences between monocots & dicots. We talked about their seeds and then discussed that when yo...

Today we went strawberry picking. It was a wonderful day for it. We actually had thunderstorms this morning from 6 am until about 7:30 am. ...

Last week, we went to Forbidden Gardens in Katy, TX ( http://www.forbidden-gardens.com/ )with one of our homeschool groups. I took this ph...

I wasn't blogging near as much last fall, and this week I came across some of Alexandra's drawings that are precious to me. We stud...

Today at our library Alexandra made cascarones. I wasn't familiar with these eggs that are a cross between Easter eggs and a party favo...

We belong to a local homeschool nature group. Once a month, they take a field trip. We just signed up in Januray and today we went on our se...

For Botany, we are using Exploring Creation with Botany by Jeannie Fulbright. We started the 2nd chapter about seeds last night. We soaked...

Last night we were sitting outside by the pool doing Botany and I saw a roly poly! Well, I had never seen any in our yard before, but now ...