Collage

Some of Tt’s Collages and Art from the last week or two…

Tt loves his tape!

Colors! Tt’s finally found COLORS!

What a free-bie real estate magazine can do with a bit ‘o tape, some scraps of paper and a jiffy Great way to fill some time @ a restaurant.

Never too old to play with stickers!

Thumbprint armies – awesome.

Les Dinosaurs

3D collage?? I just got them to do this to keep them from eating the bucket of ‘shmallows Boo had snuck from the cabinet…

Well, that’s what’s up in Collage lately!

Cool Science/Socials :)

We ended up spending a LONG time on YouTube this am after an email recommended viewing “They Might Be Giants”. Awesome.

Check it out – Tt’s been singing “We’re the Mesopotamians” all morning since… And now wants to re-read all we’d learned about Mesopotamia earlier in the school year! Good job, Mr. Giants .

I want you to watch it, and I also want to watch it again myself.

I like the Bloodmobile and the one that almost looked like a video game (Scientific Method – To the Test).

WAAAAAY more uploads can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ParticleMen#p/u

Field Trip – Beatty Biodiversity

This is a great place to visit! We had a good field trip here w/ the YNC – even want to go back right away for a second trip on our own.

The field trip focused on art in nature – lines, patterns, colors, etc. Wonderful.

Some pics…

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I went on a field trip. My brother, which was three, pulled a fire alarm (of course that becomes the most memorable part…). Mom and me laughed our heads off (out of embarassment!), but it was already the end of the field trip.

I got to make a butterfly. Here it is, Step 1. Get a tiny piece of paper, fold it in half, cut it in the shape of a butterfly, get some paint, paint one side with lots of paint anyway, then don’t paint the other side. You just squish it together and woila, you have it.

There was a whole bunch of horns. I got to see an alligator body – it was so cool. I liked the blue whale bones at the front.

Oh, did I mention that my brother pulled the fire alarm?

ART!

Tt NEVER stops drawing… except maybe to play with some Lego’s…

even at Restaurants, with one of his big sisters…

Mostly he draws battles. The entire time he’s drawing, he’s telling a story of an ancient battle of some sort…

I think these are Troopers vs. Sonic’s…

If he runs out of paper, he uses anything else “hand”y

Like, MY WALLS!?!

Just chillin’… Listening to my book… Wearin’ my skullcap… Drawin’ some knights…

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My Mom says that I draw too much (uh, no I don’t…) but I still draw!

I love to draw because it’s the only way that I can raise a battle without even touching anything. You don’t even have to find all the pieces, you just draw, draw, shoot, blah, blah, blah. (Figures – he draws because it’s a lazy-man’s way of playing with toys… I should have guessed…). I think you should all raise a battle!

Can I go now, Mom??

RCMP Helicopter Trip

This field trip was COOL. Good call, Beaver Scouty people.

We went to the RCMP Helicopter hangar, got to look inside and hear about the ($4+million) surveillance helicopter with the way cool gadgets on it (spotlights, cameras), then we watched as it took off for the day!

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The police helicopter has a big flashlight that tracks down people.

The round thing at the front has a camera and a laser so it can point to bad guys on the ground and tag them.

One pilot and one police go in the helicopter every day.

The symbols on the chopper is from all the different communities the chopper helps to protect.

I got to see it take off and my hat flew away!

PE time – Tobogganing :)

Anything counts as PE time here
We were lucky to have a warm, sunny day in the snow – gotta love Vancouver.

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Tobogganing was very fun.
My back got frozen as solid as an iceberg. Snow went all the way up my spine!

The last one was pretty good – I almost went way up the hill. I kept saying “I’m gonna die!”, but actually it turned out pretty good.

Family/Friend outing – Fishing + Fishes

On a holiday day, friends invited the boys to go fishing and to the salmon hatchery! Tt learned what a “cheese head” is… Ewww.

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So sad I missed this part… And the smell…

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This part probably made Tt hungry for sushi…
I’m pretty sure we all had salmon for dinner that night!

Tt presents “How To Train Your Dragon” books

Tt’s homeschool club presentation for “Book in a Bag” day…

Our newest toy – a Microscope!

This past weekend I was on a business trip in Naramata (Okanagan) and bumped into this little Science + Nature store. Being a homeschooling mom, I was drawn in as soon as I saw it .

The guy at the counter (lovely, chatty bloke) recommended this on my inquiry for a microscope to hook up to our computer:

It’s a Celestron handheld digital microscope! You can hold it up to anything, and at the click of a button you have a jpg shot of it on your computer. I’m sure there are more powerful microscopes out there, but for $109, you can’t beat it, esp for kids. It can go anywhere your laptop can go, as it’s linked via USB. It also comes w/ a stand.

So we took “body” shots for Tt’s “Human Body” lapbook – can anyone guess what these are??

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We haven’t mastered the settings, but still very cool. Esp considering any other microscope was at least $300…
Fun times at home!

Not-Home-School

It’s been such a gorgeous end of Sept / early Oct that most of our days are being spent out side, schooling, unschooling, playing, walking, picnicing… We’re saving most of the “books” for rainy days – and we know there’ll be enough of those coming to let us catch up!