Homeschool Connection Projects

Homeschool Connection teachers were so kind as to help the boys finish up some projects on short notice before we head out of town. Today was their last day and these are some of the things Isaac came home with.

This is Isaac's wolf that he saved for and bought from the Nature and Science Museum gift shop, he named it Snow. In his sewing class, he made this bag to carry snow in on our trip.

The next two are project from his Pottery 3 class.

I just have put something next to this for perspective. It's quite large and very heavy! The class worked long and hard on their canopic jars. I really love how it turned out.

Face in Space

Isaac and Spencer watching their faces take off into space through the NASA Face in Space program. The space suits that Anne made the boys for cmas have badges for the specific Discovery shuttle mission that their faces are going to space in, so cool!!

Visit from Great Grandpa & Grandma

This past week my grandparents were on the way back to IL from AZ and stopped in Denver for a couple of days for a visit. It was great to get to see them. The last time they were in Denver they came along with us while we were getting the inspection done to buy our house(10yrs ago), so it's been a little while.

We decided to make our first ever trip to the Museum of Nature & Science. We ended up buying a family membership and it's a good thing we did as we never did made it out of the Space exhibit. Before we left, we watched Hubble 3D at the imax, it was so incredible! We have tons of exploring yet to do at the museum, including a new exhibit opening in a couple of weeks: Pirates!

Here Samuel is shaping the surface of Mars.....in his own unique way.

In science class at home, we did a crater experiment with flour and rocks. This was a high-tech version of that with steel balls and sand and cameras where you could make the crater and then watch the recording of it being made in slow motion in both forward and reverse.

The tot area had dress-up gear and the cockpit of a shuttle to pilot. Asher is focused on picking up space rocks here.

So glad it worked out for them to come through town!

Isaac's Igloo!

He's been working hard on his igloo and has been thrilled that the snow has actually stayed around long enough for him to finish it. (I'm not so excited about that part)

Silly Samuel

Isaac got a Flip-like video camera for Christmas and we're enjoying it. Video overload here a bit, sorry about that. This is just Samuel in a fit of giggles, had us all cracking up.

Home Depot Kids Project

Video is a little loud, might want to turn down the volume.

Spencer's Intro to Drama

Today was the end of semester open house at Homeschool Connection. Each of the 3 boys who attend were part of the performance portion. Spencer's is first up. His class's performance is 10 mins long, the others are much shorter.