Dewey's Treehouse

It is early yet, but I do have some plans laid out for Dollygirl's Grade Eight. More or less, it's Ambleside Online's Year Eig...

FINDS:   We stopped at two yard sales this morning, and both of them turned out to be held by people we know.  Not close friends, but acquai...

O Canada and God Save the Queen, because it's Friday. Read together from Down to Earth Reading and activities from How Math Work...

Plans for today: 1.  Read some of Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang  by Ian Fleming. 2.  History lesson: "Bannockburn."  June 2014 m...

What are we doing in school today? 1.  Opening time: hymn.   A little devotional I found about sand! 2.   How to Make a Universe with 92...

School plans for today: In the news: Today's Google Doodle marks Rachel Carson's 107th birthday. Balance Benders Level 3  En...

Thought for the Week: "Mrs Mary Mead... attended Fairfield PNEU School near Bristol, which offered training for future missionarie...

School plans for today: O Canada, because it's Friday Current events:   seahorses , flightless birds , and fighting malaria Basic...

Opening time;  Hymns; read a couple of pages from Down to Earth Ourselves Book II:  "Instructors of Conscience" Balance Bender...

School plans for today: Current events: animals in the news today, including a newborn giraffe,  a rescued fawn, and a swarm of honeybees ...

School plans for today: Opening time, hymn, current events Old Testament: Book of Numbers Gardening: read  Down to Earth , by Michael J....

For those who read our blog on a reader or who otherwise don't see sidebars and headers: I added some new science notes  and also an in-...

(SPOILERS INCLUDED IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IVANHOE) Dollygirl and I are partway through Ivanhoe , to the part where the castle is being be...

RAISIN OR DATE BARS  ( More with Less Cookbook ) Today we are having a potluck lunch at church.  We're taking some sandwiches, a quin...

The last month has seen a great change in the weather and the foliage.  Spring is still dragging itself a bit, but at least all the leaves a...

Outside our basement window this wet morning: at least two red house finches, industriously eating the dandelions that have gone to seed. ...

I just read a list on Yahoo of things that people should really throw out. Well, I'm not too guilty of keeping mateless (?) shoes or u...

In back yard nature news:   the blossoms have come out on the apple trees and the maples.  All at once, making up for lost time.  Not so g...

Have you noticed today's Google Doodle?  It's in honour of Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994), the developer of protein crystallography. ...

"We are aware that our own discursive talk is usually a waste of time and a strain on the scholars' attention, so we (of the P.N.E...