This post concludes my series of day trips that we took this summer, which also concludes our 2017-2018 school year. Day trips are some of our most educational and fun activities we can do as homeschoolers. I will try to write about some of the places we go this year too. My son picked the … Continue reading Atlanta Botanical Garden
We have been to the Georgia Aquarium several times (mostly when the boys were smaller), but I realize I have never written a newspaper column or blog post about this amazing aquarium. It used to be the largest aquarium in the world until it was surpassed by an aquarium built in Singapore in 2012. Go … Continue reading Georgia Aquarium
After finding some black swallowtail caterpillars in our garden earlier this summer, we were very surprised to find giant swallowtail caterpillars too. We were even more surprised because these caterpillars looked like bird poop! That is how my son identified them. He typed "caterpillars that look like bird poop" into a Google search engine, and … Continue reading Raising Giant Swallowtail Butterflies
One of the day trips we made this summer was to the North Georgia Zoo & Petting Farm. We had been aware of this zoo for a long time, and we'd always wanted to check it out. My boys had a great time at this zoo. This is a small and rustic zoo. Don't expect … Continue reading North Georgia Zoo & Petting Farm
It’s that time of year again, and I think this must be my favorite time of year. There’s a hint of autumn in the air (at least early in the morning). My boys have had their birthdays, and all the deciding-what-to-do-this-year and present buying is over, and they are happy with some new projects to … Continue reading Late August
Several years ago I wrote an informative newspaper column about the Tellus Museum that you can still read, but it’s worth writing about briefly again. Since that first visit, we have been to the Tellus many times, and one year, we had a family membership. But we hadn’t been there in a very long time … Continue reading Tellus Science Museum
The Booth Western Art Museum is located in Cartersville, Georgia. We have been to Cartersville many times to visit the Tellus Science Museum, but we didn’t visit the Booth Museum until this summer because we thought the boys might be too young to appreciate the art. Now that they are a little older, they appreciate … Continue reading Booth Western Art Museum
We love to take the boys on day trips to interesting places around this region, and this summer, we've been on several. I'm going to try to write about all the places we've been, and I'm starting with the Michael C. Carlos Museum, which is located on the campus of Emory University. The Carlos Museum … Continue reading Michael C. Carlos Museum
I usually wait until I've covered three history topics until I write another log, but I'm eager to share our Ancient Greece resources. We spent quite awhile with Ancient Greece because The Odyssey and the myths took a long time to read, and we've been taking a break this summer from history too. Although these are the resources … Continue reading History Lesson Log #3: Ancient Greece
Earlier this summer, we saw a monarch butterfly laying eggs on our milkweed plant, but when the caterpillars were very tiny, they disappeared. We believe a wasp preyed upon them. That was disappointing, but soon after, we found some other interesting caterpillars in our yard. We identified these as black swallowtails. There were seven. We didn't take … Continue reading Raising Black Swallowtail Butterflies
