tadpoles, trails and trees

I'm a firm believer that kids learn through play, and that this doesn't end after preschool. Maybe some day I will unschool. I thin...

We are a couple of weeks into our second year of homeschool at our house. One thing that we have found works well for us is the Workboxes ...

This year, when we start school my darling daughter will be 14 months old. Last year at this time she only weighed about 6 pounds. I just st...

We still have a couple of weeks left of summer (our official start date is August 30th), but I have been working to get things ready to go f...

Imagine my surprise that we are actually harvesting vegetables from my garden! It's working! I don't just have a lovely fence around...

How do you teach kids (or adults) how to read a topographic map? What do all of those contour lines mean anyway? This three-dimensional, ha...

On Monday afternoon it started to snow. We woke up Tues day morning to clearing skies and a couple of inches if fresh snow blanketing the n...