Today is…December

Reading The Library ran a cute Christmas program. The read about reindeers and made some cute crafts: A lot of our reading and writing was combined with our science, math and art this month.   Science We played with several science projects from our science project book. Testing for friction: States of water: We looked […]



Crabs

    Hermit Crabs came to visit us just before Christmas. They were a Santa gift for another bunch of boys, and had to be kept secret in a safe hideout. They were actually pretty friendly: Giant and Ettin weren’t sure they really wanted to touch them… …and Galoot was pretty sure he wanted to […]



My Budding Artist

This boy is not afraid to get into his work: He has a talent for sharing concepts through the higher arts: And he has truly excellent taste:



Cold Weather Running

It’s been quite cold here lately. Really cold. My running buddy and I said we’d run in weather down to -20 celcius. But this last run was a little bit colder… Note the frozen eyelashes? That was actually quite worrisome. What would you do if your eyelashes froze shut? Take off your glove?—No way! Fingers […]



Cold Frames in the Cold

My cold frames are still standing:   …for the most part. I haven’t checked on what’s underneath in a few weeks, as its either been frozen down or extremely windy—and I don’t want to risk having the covers blow away completely! It is pleasing to look out at the garden plot and see something there. Waiting. The […]