Our homeschooling and home building story.
Colorado road trip day 6. Ari chose to go to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. It was also Cas' birthday...he's 5 years old now! The museum was really really good. We spent 7 hours there and hardly made a dent. Cas wanted to race through exhibits, pushing the buttons and doing the interactive... Continue Reading →
Colorado Road Trip day 5. Moving day. Today was the day the moving truck came and brought all the things. We went and did laundry at the laundromat, bought plants for Auntie's balcony, picked up the birthday cake for the kiddos and we helped do some unpacking. We also took the kids down to the... Continue Reading →
Denver Road trip day 4. Our first day in Denver we went to Cave of the Winds which Cas chose. So many things to do! We did the adventure course, climbing wall, geronimo leap, sluicing, batapult and the cave tour. The kids loved all of it and had a blast. It was Cas' first time... Continue Reading →
Kemmerer, WY to Denver, CO. We started out with a 2 hour fossil dig in Kemmerer and had a blast. Ari found a fossil right off the bat in the parking lot. We had fun and found a lot of coprolite and fish fossils. We managed to find several whole fish fossils as well. Both... Continue Reading →
Today we drove from Elko, NV to Kemmerer, WY. Before leaving Elko we took the kids to see the 2 oversize art cowboy boots we had found. The kids car surprise were 2 small perplexus games. Both of my kids love doing perplexus, they're a bit trickier with a bumpy car but still fun. We... Continue Reading →
This summer we're doing a road trip to Colorado. My second sister is moving to Denver for her second residency and we're helping her move and enjoying some vacation. To make the trip a bit easier for the kids, we broke up the trip there into 3 days and we found fun stops every couple... Continue Reading →
I don't know about you all, but when my kids end up with a lot of time on their hands...I end up with numerous requests for screen time. So this summer, we made a routine. Before screen time we need to have breakfast, do morning lists (get dressed, brush teeth, etc), have morning worship, an... Continue Reading →
Ari has wanted to get baptized since she was 2. I told her she needed to be able to read her Bible well enough to study with someone and be able to check that what they said was actually in there. Last fall, she saw a friend get baptized and reminded me that she would... Continue Reading →
At the end of the year, I like to give an evaluation on how our curriculum worked out for us. As a reminder, Ari was in third grade and Cas was in preschool. First of all, we loved our cores. Exploring Countries and Cultures was a lot of fun. We enjoyed learning about our world... Continue Reading →
We made it! Our year came chugging into the station at full steam but we made it! We ended the year with Australia and then Antarctica. We watched videos of zoos in Australia and of a kid who traveled to Antarctica. We read about koalas, kangaroos and penguins. We learned about the Great Barrier Reef... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 