Adventures with Twins, Cystic Fibrosis + a Food Allergy
Spring is Field Trip season. Especially for everyone enduring snowy, frozen weather right now the emergence of Spring leaves us desperate to head outside to do something, anything. With Spring right around the corner and a new semester just beginning, I have been busy brainstorming …
Shakespeare, all these many generations later, is still alive in our literary world. His plays are taught in middle school and high school classrooms all over, performed in theaters around the world, and twisted, adapted and built upon in literature and film everywhere. No matter …
He runs over and grabs my hand – something that has become more and more rare in this middle school year – “come look at this Mom!” He pulls me from display to display, explaining as we go what he’s noticed about the Ancient Maya …
Whale watching was one of my very first adventures as a kid. My mom loves to tell the story about me trying to jump off the boat into the ocean to swim with the whales. It’s one of many Erin trying to escape into the …
Tide pooling is one of our favorite winter adventures. Here in Southern California, December through early Spring is when we see the lowest low tides. These extra low tides are ideal for tide pooling. Creatures and their habitats are exposed during these low tide times …
Rocks are the things I find everywhere. My kids stash rocks in the pockets around their seats in the car. I find rocks in the pockets of all of my coats from my kids asking me to “please save this!” when they find a special …
Butterflying isn’t the first thing that pops in my head when I think about Fall activities. To me, Fall has always been more about leaf peeping, pumpkin picking, and apple farms. That all changed last year when we read CITIZEN SCIENTISTS. affiliate links are included …
Swimming back and forth in the tank in our schoolroom is Mr. Weasley. He’s a beta fish we recently adopted from some friends who are moving. He’s bright orange which is probably the most exciting thing about him, because honestly he spends most of his …
“Can we go there!?” Driving up to the North Shore of Oahu towards our rental for the week, we heard this exclaimed from the backseat several times. Beautiful beaches, the Dole Plantation, and various other sites had us all feeling giddy with excitement. A few …
UCSD in La Jolla, just north of San Diego has a fun sculpture collection all around their campus. Part of our fifth grade homeschool was learning about sculpture. We did a lot of looking at sculpture books and hands on sculpting ourselves, but seeing large, …