Over the Crescent Moon

The birthday of Sherlock Holmes is celebrated on Jan. 6th, but yesterday was a school day, plus I awoke with a terrible sinus headache, so w...

Today is the 109th anniversary of the release of the iconic, silent, science fiction film, "A Trip to the Moon". Now, jumpi...

We went to see the last Harry Potter movie this afternoon. If you are thinking about going to see it, my advise is bring tissues ( I had tea...

We have a couple of the books in this series, but I only learned recently that they had been made into a t.v. show and that several of the s...

I just saw this for the first time this morning and thought other children's literature enthusiasts might enjoy this. It is the story of...

I recently discover this website: symphony of science.com Snippets of lectures by famous televised scientists have been put together with mu...

This week we are continuing our study of great inventors, by learning about Alexander Graham Bell. I realize that in chronological order, he...

I love YouTube. I went to the public library specifically looking for this cartoon about Thomas Edison, but our library didn't have it. ...

We were very busy all weekend, but it was all fun stuff. Friday night, we went to see the movie Astro Boy. It was opening night and we were...

Blaze is still having problems with his reading, partly because he has trouble processing all the sounds in the words. It's very connect...

I'm still learning all the fun things that can be done with the photos I take. I spent a lot of time last week updating Blaze's scra...

The winner of the 2009 Newberry Award for children's literature This is the story of Bod, a toddler whose parents are killed just befor...

The High School student I tutor in the afternoons told me about this very funny video and I just had to pass it on:

You'll only understand the humor of this rock video if you are a fan of Firefly. Being Firefly fans is one of the few things this whole...

We are continuing to learn about Johnny Appleseed this week by reading the book Johnny Appleseed , by Reeve Lindbergh. It turns out there i...

The garden was getting pretty weedy again and it was time start some new plants. Then, a couple days ago, DH had a brain storm, that the scr...

Since we are only a week away from St. Patrick's Day, Blaze is going to be learning about rainbows this week for science. We started thi...

I saw this chalkboard art video and just had to share it.

2008 was our first year with a digital camera and the ability to take short movies. "And the winner for cutest short feature of 2008 go...