A New Thing We’re Doing…
Nerd in the Brain! I’ve finally decided to take all of my experiences as a teacher (public school, community college, and home school), a math nerd, and a reading nut and squish them together into...
View ArticleThe Week in Pictures
We’re a little late with this this week. We’ve had a hectic (but good) couple of days, so I’m trying to get all caught up on stuff. Here’s some of the awesome stuff we did last week: Filed under:...
View ArticleThe Week in Pictures
We had a good week with lots of goofing off. Enjoy some pictures of our (mostly) educational activities: Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: cooking, education, experiments, holiday, homeschool,...
View ArticleLast Week in Pictures
We did so much fun stuff last week! I won’t bog you down with a giggledy-jillion pictures, but here are some of the highlights: Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: cooking, education, experiments,...
View ArticleCrazy Colors – Grace’s New Game
Grace has been hard at work creating a new game! She spent a lot of time designing cards, writing out rules, test-playing, and revising…and we have a final product: Crazy Colors! It’s a fun and...
View ArticleLast Week in Pictures
We had a fantastic week last week! Here’s the evidence: Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: cooking, education, experiments, family, field trips, history, homeschool, life skills, math, mythology,...
View ArticleMathathon for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Grace is raising money for children’s cancer research and practicing her math skills…but she needs your help! St. Jude’s is an awesome organization that has helped make tremendous progress in the...
View ArticleMultiplication Genius!
Grace really struggled with subtraction on XtraMath (I think it took 113 days for her to master), but she tore through the multiplication in a blink. Here’s a shot of her shiny, new certificate to...
View ArticleArea Puzzler Game Testing
I recently designed a new game for Nerd in the Brain called Area Puzzler… a fun little review of finding area of squares and rectangles while solving a puzzle. Good times! Grace, as usual, helped me...
View ArticleChocolate Survey
For part of our science enrichment, Grace is working on a unit study about chocolate. Today we had the horrifying task of tasting several types of chocolate to determine our favorites. ;) Okay, maybe...
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