Dewey's Treehouse

The Skystone , by Jack Whyte. I'm trying to finish it because it was on my list of books for this year, and because I started it, and b...

Yesterday we went to the surplus store and shopped our little squirrel hearts out. (We haven't been there for months and months, so it...

I took a pan of these bars (our Better Homes and Gardens Potluck Favorites booklet calls them Candy Bar Cookies) to our homeschooling frien...

It's the middle of strawberry season here, and we bought two baskets of them last Saturday. One basket went to make jam. Ponytails used ...

Janet at Across the Page put together an evaluation not of her second-grader's progress, but of the curriculum choices she made . (Incl...

Crayons decided to type her own exam response on the computer. Here's her version of Aegeon's life story from The Comedy of Errors....

This exam is not meant to be comprehensive or very difficult; it's only a sampling of what we covered this past term. Writing Write 2-4 ...

The Real Life Home has a post about her favourite cookbooks --why she likes them, favourite recipes. Want to join in? Mostly I use my bind...

I have had one cooking disaster after another lately. The crockpot ravioli all the Recipezaar commenters loved had the texture of shoe leath...

[Problems viewing the post referred to? There have been some changes at HomeschoolBlogger, and some peoples' links have gotten messed u...

Puppet character singing on children's TV show: "I see you. You see me. I see you watching me on T.V." Young Squirreling watch...

From the comments in the Homeschoolers: Do they care too much post : " Princess Mom June 1, 2009 at 2:07 pm Hear, hear! I would add ...

Crayons and I have been having fun this week with a dictionary activity from Raising Ravenous Readers: Activities to Create a Lifelong Appet...

Jeannette Tulis posts on the Childlight USA blog. What does the Charlotte Mason method of nature study really look like?

Crayons finished her gingham embroidery cloth last Friday.

There are some pretty terrific online lists of horsey party activities. We checked out Pony Party Ideas , the "Horse Power Party Planni...

"I want a horse party"--sounds simple, right? A lot of the horse-and-pony-party websites assume that you must have unlimited fun...

Photos from Crayons' party: The tablecloths were deep pink sheets (not white, but the photo makes them look washed out). (We went lookin...

We've gotten quite a few Google hits this week for things to do with rhubarb, since we did post about it a few times over the past coupl...

At 3:34:11 this afternoon I logged into the computer. I quickly checked the mail and then read Meredith's post "Quick, Cheap Cookie...