The kids do their own dioramas and stories When I was in the 6th grade, I remember making a diorama in a shoebox, with an ocean scene and tissue paper over the top, just like Savannah's. So I had the kids do their own dioramas and stories to go along with their creative scenes. Savannah'
Cub Scout Pinewood Derby Race Each year, the Cub Scouts have a Pinewood Derby race. Tucker designed and made his own car and competed. Carson and Savannah also made their own cars for fun. Tucker received a certificate for the 'Sleekest Car' '
Mulching the Trails at Hidden Oak Park The kids and I went to Hidden Oak Nature Park to look at the animals. While there, we asked if they needed help with anything (Carson needs to do community service for a merit badge). They said that the trails needed some mulch put on them to slow the erosion.
carson Family Woodwork Class A month or two ago, the kids and I decided to do some woodwork. Carson made his own lockbox / treasure box and Tucker and Savannah made bird feeders. They all turned out pretty well.
Elementary Chemistry One advantage of Home School; you can learn fun and amazing things at your own pace. The kids are studying geometry, algebra, and we even have had some chemistry lessons. Good stuff for elementary school kids. Here's a whiteboard after a chemistry lesson on fuels and carbohydrates:
Wasp, Wig, and Pack Meeting This Cicada-Killer Wasp was in our basement, they're huge. It was flying around and wouldn't go out, so it had to die. Savannah used some birthday money to get an Elsa wig. Tucker getting some belt loops at pack meeting last night.
Makers Carson made himself a wooden box with a lock. Tucker and Savannah made custom birdfeeders with Dad's help. The feeders are hanging on this porch and attract lots of birds. I remember making paper mache globes in 4th or 5th grade, so we tried it. I will include
Maker Faire We went to the National Maker Faire in DC last Saturday. a life-size R2D2 rolling around, pretty neat lots of booths sponsored by robotics and tech companies. This one is a RadioShack tent where the kids learned about soldering. They each got a kit and an employee helped them
Rubiks Cube Nationals, Hilton Head Carson has been interested in Rubiks cubes for about a year now, and has been practicing and getting really good at solving them. Keith found that the Rubiks Cube National Convention happened to be held this year in Hilton Head, so they made plans this summer to go, last minute.
Refinish, finally After many years of abuse, we are finally refinishing the table! Fourth of July evening waiting to watch the neighborhood fireworks
carson Carson's Pinewood Derby - Super Mario Brothers Car It's Pinewood Derby time again for Cub Scouts. This year, Carson decided to go with a Super Mario Brother's theme. He came up with a really creative car!
carson Carson's Origami Video Here is a video of him Carson explaining how to make one of his origami creations: [ Your browser does not support this video. ](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media.keithandangela.com/2015-03-10+Carson%27s+Origami/2015-03-10_CarsonsOrigami.mp4)
carson Carson's Rubiks Cube Record Carson loves solving Rubik's cubes. He now has a 2x2x2 cube, a 3x3x3 (standard rubik's cube size), a Pyraminx (pyramid shaped cube), and a 4x4x4 on order. So far, his records are: 3x3x3: 59 seconds Pyraminx: 27 seconds 2x2x2: about a minute Here is a video
savannah Savannah's Lego Creation Savannah received some Lego's for Christmas from Grandma and Grandpa Knight, so she built her own Lego scene today, all by herself. It is very detailed -- very well designed.
carson Carson's Drawings Aunt Andrea and Uncle Brent gave Carson art books, sketch pads and colored pencils for Christmas. He has loved drawing with them. Here are a few of his creations: Comments Angela (Dec 16, 2014): really good!
Puddle Jumpers and Stilts at Cub Scouts Angela and I are the Cub Scout's leaders, so this last week we had a fun activity building puddle jumpers and walking on stilts. Comments Angela (Dec 17, 2014): walking on stilts is WAY harder than you think! and WAY harder than it looks!
Fall Cleanup Fall means mountains of leaves and pine needles in our yard. I think that we've collected more than 20 large bags so far. I tried out the bagger for our riding mower, it was missing some parts, but I figured it out and it worked great. Saved so
Carson's Science Project Carson's class all did science projects. So Carson decided to grow sugar crystals. It look a long time and was tough to document. So we choose to measure the strength of the different types of tape we had in the garage. We taped a loop of fishing line
Pumpkin Carvin' (finally) What do you know, we finally get around to carving a pumpkin - on November 2 Notice how it all looks like the same pumpkin? It is; each picture is of each artist's carving (on each side of the same pumpkin). We're in the pantry cause it&
Growing Peppers We planted corn, beans, aloe, sun flowers and some peppers near the beginning of the season. The peppers have done really well. Here are a few of them. We grew jalapenos, serranos, and tobasco peppers. The tobasco peppers taste really good, but are really spicy. Tabasco pepper plant is pretty
carson Carson's Drawing - Ninja Invasion Carson drew this picture today. It is a group of ninjas invading the alien's lab.
tucker Tucker's First Book - The Book of Mysteries Tucker has been writing and illustrating books at school and is proud of his accomplishment. He brings them home and reads them to us during reading time. Then he'll take Savannah to the side and read them books to her and describe the pictures to her. It is
carson Carson's Day at the Track (Pine Wood Derby Race) Carson had a great time designing, building, painting and decorating his Cub Scout Pine Wood Derby car. He did much of the work himself and we are all really proud of the results.
carson Trapping Leprechauns The boys decided that they needed to trap any Leprechauns that came to our house during St. Patricks day 'so that they could get the Leprechaun's gold'. So Tucker and Carson each devised their traps and used some of my gold plated bb-gun pellets as
