Video Game School – - the wave of the future??

One school in New York City is on its way toward a revolution.  This experiment in education is called “Quest for Learning”, and the idea behind is is using gaming literacy to teach to today’s video game generation.  If everything goes according to schedule, the 6th-12th grade school will open in Fall 2009. There is [...]

A Thousand Words Thursday

We went on a field trip to a local air museum this past week, and the boys surprised themselves with how much they enjoyed perusing the planes, and all the cool antique airplane memorabilia.  There was even a framed poster of the original signatures of many of the WWI flying aces (from both sides of [...]

Still No Gas!

Our little area of the world is small.  Some might say unimportant.  In fact, we seem to be so unimportant that the gas companies don’t even know we exist.  We are generally good people.  We nod to our neighbors on the street.  We stop and help someone who has a flat tire.  We eat our [...]

Anyone have a clock that runs on nanoseconds??

We have a situation.  I think I mentioned that Spore has arrived at our house.  Actually, the boys had preordered it, so they got it the day it came out.  I was expecting that it would captivate the boys attention for a while.  What I hadn’t expected, was that we would have to schedule our [...]

Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints – All About Animals

I’d like to say we are an animal family, because we really do love animals, but I reserve that status for those cool families that start naming off the animals at their house, and it begins to sound more like a pet shop than a house, ya know?  Our next door neighbors, for example, are [...]

A Thousand Words Thursday

My techie teens being not so techie in the teenie bit of water left in these parts…please pray for rain!!

Who Took My Gas ??!!

Hysteria took over my town this past week and weekend.  Warnings about how Hurricane Ike was going to seriously slow down oil production in Texas sent our city residents into panic.  They took their cars, gas cans, and Tupperware, and headed out to the pumps in droves over fears of gas shortages.  There were lines [...]

The Blog Award Chain Letter

Thanks to Renovation Girl, I was pleased to find a Blog Award waiting for me first thing this morning.  Now you all know how this works…in 2008 chain letter fashion,  I must follow the rules, or bad things like swarms of flies, boils on the skin, or a radio station stuck on the Rush Limbaugh [...]

The Playground of the Financially Challenged

Do you Woot?  Oh, I SO woot, and thanks to my favorite deal-of-the-day site, I am now the proud owner of my first handheld portable mp3/video player.  Yes, if God had chosen to make me financially secure, I might already be in possession of one of those swanky Apple iphones, but seeing as how I’m [...]

Friday’s Hardwired Homeschool Hints: American History

H-T is studying American History this year in his Time4Learning Social Studies curriculum.  It is quite a thorough course, going all the way from the native peoples to inhabit the land all the way through the Clinton administration.  The best part is the Time4Learning trademark of fun, interactive lessons that make American History really “pop” [...]