Category Archives: Science

A little bit of snow and an experiment

It’s been very cold this week! I don’t mind because I actually like that it kept us snuggled up in the house learning and reading and playing and just spending time together. It’s not often that we see much snow around here so when we woke up and saw the snow coming down at about...

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After the Holidays

It was really hard to get Griffin interested in lessons today. He did ok for a little bit but then he was done! He appears to be having some issues with his MEP math. To be honest, I do too.What I mean is that I really have to sit and think to figure out the...

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Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

On Friday, OMSI had a free day and we woke up early to take advantage of it. I thought it would be packed, but because we were there early, we had free run of the place for a couple of hours before the crowds showed up! They had a lot of great science experiments and...

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R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey: Life Unit 1

Yesterday we started our new science curriculum, REAL Science Odyssey:  Life (Level One).   Although Griffin is officially a kindergartner this fall, all of the curriculum we are using begins at the first grade level.  It took quite a bit of searching to find a good, solid secular science program.  So far, we really like it! ...

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