January 2016 Week 2

Friday, Jan 8 To accentuate the little bit of snow that fell yesterday, we got some more so it was quite beautiful in the morning. As a bon...

Science Museum Field Trip

Today we went over to St Paul to visit the Science Museum of Minnesota. We hadn't been there for a number of months, and wanted to see ...

GTCYS Retreat

Lauren had a retreat at Camp St. Croix for a second year in a row. I volunteered to be a chaperone this year and was treated to a chance to ...

Walker Sculpture Garden and Loring Park

Today's requested field trip was the Walker Art Center (Gloria's choice). It was a last minute GO because we were watching the weath...

Richard T Anderson Conservation Area

I keep a file in Evernote of activities that I'm considering with the kids - field trips, classes, places to visit. This location made i...

First Day of School Part One

I enrolled Natalie and Jamie in a charter school that had them starting in August. It was supposed to be like homeschooling, but it didn...

The TARDIS

Lauren, Gloria and Natalie got to go to a 3D printing class at the Maple Grove library last month. They got to use Google Sketchup to creat...

Compassion Mobile Experience

For our last official day of school for the year, we went on a field trip to the Compassion Mobile Experience in Woodbury, This was a chance...

Wirth Park

Since the weather was perfect today, we headed out with the portable grill and picnic basket to Wirth Park for lunch and some trail walkin...

Misc Homeschool Projects

These are some of the things the girls have been working on in school this month. left - Lauren sewed this messenger bag from a pattern ...

Imagination Fair

Today was the culmination of about a month long project focus in our homeschool – the Imagination Fair. This was a chance to display project...

Baby Chicks

We placed our chick order about 10 days ago and got to pick up the three little peepers today. We got them from Egg Plan Urban Farm Supply i...

MN Sea Life Museum

It was homeschool week again at Mall of America. It doesn’t seem like an entire year has passed already but here we are again. We enjoyed ou...

Excelsior Beach

We went to Excelsior to collect a few things we wanted for the fairy garden project, mostly sand, lake rocks and pea gravel. It was an espec...

Our Outdoor Classroom

It’s that time of the year for outdoor projects! We are spending more time out on the patio for school (including lunch) and also doing some...

Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

Today we took a guided tour of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden in Minneapolis. We learned how to identify different trees by their bark ...

Shrine Circus

Today we went to the Shrine Circus at the MN state fairground coliseum. It was another super discount deal I found through one of my local ...

Minneapolis Institute of Art

We visited MIA today for the purpose of viewing the Asian art collection. Lauren has been working on an ancient China project and Jamie read...