A Celebration of Mundanity

MBTP Curriculum give away for August 2019!  We love using this literature based unit study approach that is loaded with hands on activities and experiments.  By posting here it gives me…

We unexpectedly acquired a batch of wood frog spawn so we are now going to work on a unit study on frogs and their life cycle.   Our daughter is watching them closely, noting dates of changes and…

Jana had fun learning about Seahorses as I put together another interest led unit study.  She explored their habitats, unusual anatomy and behavior and enjoyed beautiful documentaries.  We found…

We finished up our primary curriculum and decided to spend a few weeks exploring some topics of my daughter's choosing before moving on to MBTP 7-9.  She asked for Blue Ringed Octopus and Giant…

The “Books We Love” category will include books we both own or have checked out from our library, that we have found to fit our themes, are fun and have had many re-reading requests. These are by…

Lepidoptera are near and dear to this household.  Our garden is full of native and other flowering plants to attract butterflies.  We rear anything we can find the eggs for.  We've also…

As a biologist and a secular homeschooler the subject of evolution is an important one that we have been incorporating into as many areas of study as we can. History? Start with the Big Bang and big…

We're on our break from our more structured homeschool curriculum, but that doesn't mean the learning stops.  We're busy in the garden with vegetables, fruits and flowering plants where our daughter…

The quail eggs and supplies arrived on April 20th along with the presentation from Homestead Phil.  Data collection commenced right away with recording what the eggs looked like and making…

In the weeks preceding receiving our Hatch the Quail, we read quite a few books on eggs, birds, chickens and how birds are not the only ones to come from eggs.  …