Our recent studies-

School has been going great- the Workboxes are a hit! It only takes a few minutes to fill them each evening, (or sometimes in the morning) Doodle just finished up a week study on Henry the Castaway it's a FIAR title- (Have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE FIAR. It is the bulk of Doodle and Roo's schoolwork- covers everything except language arts and math) Henry the Castaway is an out of print book- and sometimes hard to find- but we really enjoyed our week. We did a bit of geography with the lessons in the book, found the Orinoco River, and other famous rivers. We learned about Rivers- here's the finished sandbox river-We practiced Tally Marks and counted all the animals in the book. Read about Columbus, and drew maps.

We studied about various explorers- and decided to go exploring for ourselves- We went to the Weber River Parkway (amazing- we didn't really even get very far down the trail and had a blast!) Not too far from where we parked Roo saw this sign, and Doodle read it to him, and of course we needed to take the trail and see where it led.There was a cool "Sundial" where you are the stick in the middle. It was surprizingly accurate. Farther down the trail was a sign that told about wetlands and marshes. And some boys said "Let's go check it out" I cringed as we walked through the mud to get down here....But we were exploring- so I couldn't say "No" We found this little frog in the wetlands, along with TONS of tadpoles. Next time we'll bring a cup and catch a few and watch them grow.

Bug studied Maine last week- Each week he needs to come up with a science experiement that goes along with his state. He decided since blueberries grow in Maine, he'd make a blueberry pie. Dad told him that wasn't a science project. So he made it into one. He made a homemade pie, and a pie with store bought crust and filling, and made a chart to compare the 2. His results- Homemade pie is much better than store bought filling and crust. YUM! It was delicious.