Butterfly Garden at New 42nd Street Studios (New Victory Theater)

We saw the Butterfly Garden with our homeschool group. Mikro was one of the lucky kids who got to join the dancers on the pressure sensitive technowizardry dance floor and create colors and shapes with special bracelets that the floor reacted to (Can you tell I have no clue how it worked? But it was really cool!) A very unique and fun interpretation of the life cycle of the butterfly.

Homeschool Nature Class

Animal Detectives on the lookout for clues as to what critters have been by... Lots of birds at the meadow, and bugs and butterflies, but no coyote sign sighted... Did see several yellow warblers, a new addition to my life list! Also had an American Kestrel fly right over our heads (See the video below, which also has a bit of robin song.) Mikro is in love with kestrels...

I wish Nature Class wasn't over for the summer. We always have a great time.














Fun at the playground with friends after class...



After that, Mikro and I went exploring on our own...

In our garden...

While we were at the library this week, we stumbled upon a workshop on plant diversity, which was right up Mikro's alley. He got to make a comic book about plant evolution, and to take apart a rose. Glad he isn't dissecting mine excessively...

Homeschool Update

We've been reading:

History:




And continuing our scavenger hunt for things mythological:



And dressing up as Poseidon. He wants to take his trident everywhere...


Some science: reading (including science poems) and classes on life in outer space and rocket building...









And there has been lots of Math. We are loving Math Start books, and some others as well. He's really starting to get place value and regrouping. I am thrilled that he seems to have a good grasp of math concepts, even if remembering math facts is not high on his priority list at the moment. He's getting some from using them, and he's picked up some from math songs, including the We Love Math CD by Jennifer Fixman (and we also highly recommend her Science Songs with Miss Jenny.)









Some general reading:





Playing with art supplies (and as you can see, Mama got into them, too!)







And helping weed, plant and mulch our kitchen garden:





I love that my son will read anywhere he can! If I'm busy, and he needs to find something to occupy himself with, he doesn't look for trouble; he grabs a book. I couldn't be more thrilled.