Category: Homeschool

The Science and History Museum has a new exhibit called “Grossology – the (impolite) science of the human body” and we went to the member preview the day before it opened. Mike was building the girls their new and totally awesome playset so we took Grammie along on our adventure.

Nadia was really fond of this musical toot machine.

The girls started calling this robot “The Booger Guy” and we have heard about him every single day! I did learn that you produce a quart of mucus every day. There were TONS and TONS of interesting factoids in this exhibit. I know that we will be back with Mike and probably others before it leaves in the fall so I will take more time to read everything. It’s a really great set up and there are so many things I didn’t get photos of because the girls wanted to check everything out and it was pretty overwhelming to Amelie. There are games and slides and air guns and it’s all themed to bodily functions.

I can safely say that the 7 – 10 year old boys we saw were having the most fun of anyone 🙂    (of course it sounded like their homeschool moms were quizzing them every step of the way)

Amelie with a kidney or maybe a heart.

After the museum we went to Dairy Queen to have Blizzards with Grammie. It is such a blessing that I have those DQ memories from my childhood with Grammie and now my girls will have them too!

While in the middle of our “Goofy Gecko” unit study last week I decided that the beautiful weather called for a trip to the zoo. I canceled our other plans (working out at the gym) and packed us up to head over. The day was so perfect – gorgeous weather and no school field trips! On the way home Nadia said, “The best thing was I didn’t get bumped!”

Click the photo above to see all the photos from our day. (lots of reptiles)

The Fort Worth Zoo opened an incredible exhibit in 2010 called MOLA – Museum of Living Art. We have been through it several times, but until we did this unit study I had no idea how many cool reptiles were in there. Nadia and I kept saying to each other, “That was in our study! Hey that guy looks familiar!” Nadia was watching a slide show on the video screens above our head and was calling out the names of of the specific geckos and other lizards and she totally freaked out this older woman. The lady just stood there with her mouth open looking amazed which just made me laugh.

The Komodo Dragon was on the inside and right up to the glass which was fun for the girls.

Nadia was SO EXCITED to get to touch the snake. Without so many other kids around all 3 of us had a chance to touch it and learn from the zoo keeper.

We only had a couple of hours, so when we were finished in MOLA we headed over to see the lions, tigers, bears, giraffes and elephants. On the way out Mommy had to stop to talk to the Meerkats and we headed straight home for lunch and naps for my very tired girls.

Introduced Amelie to color wonder markers. She thought they were awesome!

Block City by Nadia. She really worked hard on this project.

Playdough is always fun!

The weather has been glorious this month so the girls have spent a lot of time outside. Just chillin’ on Mr. Crabs.

Amelie is starting to learn her letters. She has come so far in all kinds of other areas that I think she is going to do well.

Happy Chinese New Year from our “dragons”.