Garden Sprouts

It has been so delightful to go out to the garden each day and look for new growth. All the live plants we put in except the zucchini are do...

Belly Piercing

Katie has been waiting to get her belly button pierced and finally got to go do that at Almost Famous Piercings at MOA. It was a pretty stra...

Creative Expression and Movie Making

While I was at the dentist today, the girls were given free time to choose their activities. They got together to create a couple of creativ...

Minnetonka Library Park

At the bottom of the hill on the edge of the Minnetonka Library parking lot, there is huge old Burr Oak tree, a little circle of benches and...

Locks of Love–Lauren

Lauren has been planning for another hair donation event since the last time she did Locks of Love at the end of 6th grade. We have been mea...

Locks of Love - Jamie

Jamie wanted to do a hair donation, inspired by Lauren’s. She had not had a haircut except for bangs trimming since she was 4 years old. She...

Minnetonka Mills Park

After running a few other errands, we were going past Minnetonka Mills Park on our way to Aldi. Gloria asked if we could go there sometime. ...

Planting Day Part 1

The big day has arrived! We went to the garden center at the hardware store, chose plants and started getting them in the ground! There wer...

Dirt Delivery

The big day finally arrived for the delivery of the garden dirt. Jim and Katie separately calculated and agreed on the amount: 15 cubic yard...

First Day at the Beach

The weather was finally warm enough (for us, at least!) to go to the beach. We went to City Hall to get our parking permit and then headed ...

App Fun

I am really enjoying seeing everyone finding and using cool ipad, Android and Nook apps in their learning. I am much more open to things th...

Learning at the Park

Being outside a lot is the biggest treat of this time of the year. We can’t really seem to wear out the fun in playing in the yard, neighbor...

Garden Centers and Being Flexible

One of the things I am enjoying about our flexible school days is the ability to be out and about together and to stop and do or see things ...

Homegrown Engineering

Today’s engineering project: setting up two different gazebos comparing how they work and how we want to use them in different environmen...

Mississippi River Tour Part I

Earlier this year, when we couldn’t get in a visit at the Science Museum, we visited the Mississippi River museum in the lobby instead. At ...

Dry Ice Fun

Lauren and Gloria were up last night watching science videos they had found with dry ice demonstrations. They were wondering if we could tr...

Garden Progress

After a large amount of effort put in by Jim and the girls this season, the garden walls have been completed and the ground broken up! Today...

Bonfire

We planned to have a bonfire for dinner tonight and were excited because the weather had been really great all day right into the evening. A...

Garage Sale Season Begins

Everyone was extremely excited to see that there were a lot of garage sale signs out today so we took some time to go hunting after violin ...

I am Learning Too

Part of our homeschool method is fostering an environment of learning by setting an example myself. I read a lot …ok a TON, like to watch do...

Projects

There is a lot of interest in 3D projects right now. This includes dioramas, mini books, collages, posters and the like. I think the kids ha...

Carson’s Pond

We are really enjoying the ability to be outside more, especially the flexibility to change plans if it’s nice enough to be outside. Today w...

Oldies but Goodies

It’s fun to see some interest in a few of the “old school” things we have around here still. We seem to be getting away from TV watching qui...

Science Exploration

Jamie started a fun little science experiment today. Some of the blooms on my orchid had broken off and wilted so I threw them into the garb...

Mother’s Day and Anniversary

It was kind of a coincidence that the second MN Orchestra tickets I got this year were for Mother’s Day (and our anniversary) but my favori...

Anniversary Overnight

For the second year in a row, we were able to have a lovely overnight getaway in a local inn, thanks to Justin and Sarah. This time, we wer...