My nephew, Doc Bish, sent this to me. And I thought it was so amusing that I thought I would share.
Enjoy!
Subject: Important Notice from the CDC.
The Center for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highly contagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted orally, by hand, and even [...]
Today we made a shaduf to go along with our Egyptian Unit.
Egypt had such a dry climate that farmers invented ways to irrigate their crops using canals and basins. Farmers used buckets to scoop up water and poured it over crops. They used a tool called a shaduf to get the water into the canals [...]
GB and I started our Egyptian Unit this week. We are using Great Ancient Egypt Projects You Can Build Yourself. GB loves this series of books, so we are not going to mess with a good thing.
Today we made a papyrus boat. We used 20 bendable drinking straws, string, duct tape, and brown paint.
First, you [...]
When I was at our local craft store I noticed that they had a bargain bin. Digging through it, I found this cool little science kit from the Smithsonian Museum. It’s called ‘Prehistoric Sea Monsters.’ They aren’t really sea monsters, but fossils of these triops (tadpole shrimp) have been found in items dating back to [...]
Last night we had a three hour Texas Hold ‘Em tournament in our neighborhood. It was supposed to be for adults and kids. But no adults showed up. I came to deal. Thankfully, Jabem and his friend had spent a few hours prepping me for my role as dealer because my table had 12 kids [...]
For this project we used a very cool product called Gallery Glass. It helps you create your own stained glass art projects.
We were supposed to do this project on an essay protector, but I didn’t have one. So I pulled the glass out of an old frame and actually used glass. Ha! How ’bout that…..LOL!
Then [...]
