With spring arriving and all the new leaves unfurling, it's time to revisit a darling book we read way back when the kids were in preschool/kindergarten. We read this as part of our botany study for My Father's World (leaf and apple theme). Of course this book is a bit more … [Read more...]
How to make paper with kids
Several years ago (back in 2009 when I first published this piece) I found a Bill Nye the Science Guy paper-making kit. I thought excellent! This will make a wonderful science activity to do with my little guys, and it was on clearance! Score! Now I had a great activity I could … [Read more...]
Ancient Greeks for preschool
When people tell me little kids can't learn about ancient history, I always give them a strange look. My kids loved learning about ancient history in our homeschool history lesson. Take our ancient Greeks lesson. (This post contains affiliate links marked with an … [Read more...]
Using art to teach science, let kids act it out
I remember very distinctly an art project we did in 4th grade. We sat there with a brown paper bag, and we worried at it, and crumpled it, and generally abused the paper bag until it had a texture similar to leather. This was then tied into the Native American living in … [Read more...]
How did Texas get such great bluebonnets every spring?
There are some things that just scream TEXAS. One of those is the sight of bluebonnets covering the fields come March through early April. Every Texan who came up through elementary school here can tell you "The Legend of the Bluebonnet," and Tomie dePaola wrote an amazing … [Read more...]
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