Dewey's Treehouse

I can't decide whether to send this to the Miquon Math support list or post it here...I think it makes as much sense to put it here and ...

Crayons and I made these last night for a surprise dessert. The idea was from Family Fun , and the impetus was a late-summer pint of strawb...

French is one of those subjects where I have needed as many teachers' helpers as I could get. We haven't bought a whole lot of comm...

Remember my experiment making Miss Maggie's ricotta cheese for stuffed pasta shells? Well, this week I had to do a double Miss Maggie ...

Not all the good nature books out there are really old. On our last library trip I picked up three books in the Young Naturalist series by ...

(Update, September 2012:  Yes,  Natural Science Through the Seasons has been reprinted! ) 2018 Updated Link (Update, December 2010: Thank...

That's what we got at the farmstand on the weekend--small red potatoes. And broccoli, and red and green peppers, and lettuce, and a few...

The DHM linked to The Perfect Purple Planner on a blog called 20 Years of Homeschooling a Houseful . While I was there I happened to notic...

We had a fun Saturday morning shopping around. First stop was an estate sale with a lot of vintage books; the late owner of the house had be...

While my grandsires didn't supply me with a Rattery to scrounge from (like the DHM's ), I have fallen heir to quite a few things th...

It's good for ripped-off noses (ugh, sorry), little sisters who toddle into the corner of the T.V., and can also make you more beautiful...

Yesterday we stopped in at Tim Horton's before we got groceries. We haven't been going there much lately because...well...TH's i...

Here is a quiz you can take. And if you take it you get a free virtual box of Timbits. All the kinds that you like, but you have to leave ...

This is something we might try during our two pre-school weeks at the end of the summer: making big homemade pencils out of paint stirrers....

Too hot to cook? How about meatloaf or cabbage rolls on the barbecue? Mr. Fixit has done both this summer. Yesterday I made up a panful of m...

Did I ever link to these? "Oasis of Sanity: Mrs. H's class rules" have been tacked up in the Treehouse since they were first...

Yesterday was one of those infrequent trips downtown to the thrift shop with the great book corner. I brought home two plastic bagfuls of bo...

You can always try Chocolate Microwave Cake . (No dairy, no egg.) We baked ours in a casserole that was a bit smaller around and a bit deepe...

A bits-and-pieces dessert: you need vanilla ice cream, hot fudge sauce , and a lot of broken bits of brownie. No, I didn't have a kitche...