We are nearing the end of our discussion of Touching Spirit Bear. Some of us are 1 week from the end, and others are 2 weeks away, but we are all excited to witness the end of Cole’s personal journey on the island. In history, we’re talking about the 7 Years War, which Winston...Read More

Our routines are getting settled and our workloads are increasing. This past week, we delivered some donated goods to the Brown Bag Food Project. Peg gave us some insight into what they do, how they do it, and why they do it. It was an enlightening experience. For science, we are playing with simulations for...Read More

This week, we experimented with Thermal Energy, transfer of Heat, and measuring Temperature. That exercise was good, because there was ice cream involved. We like ice cream. We are moving quickly through the American Colonial period, talking about what life was like for English, Spanish, and French colonists in the 17th and 18th centuries. There...Read More

So far this year, our class has been wading hip-deep into the Exploration of the Americas by European Nations and the long-term affects of the Age of Exploration.  We are also playing with Newton’s Laws of Motion, Energy, Force, Work and the relationships between those scientific concepts. But you aren’t here to read about that....Read More