A school of fish

There are so many resources out there on the night sky (of which we only covered a fraction---we were focusing just on constellations this t...

On Thursdays, when he can, Sam teaches a class for us, usually an art-related lesson related to our current unit. I really love participatin...

One of my favorite parts of this unit, surprisingly, was playing these night-themed piano pieces for the kids. I played Nocturnes by Respig...

Annoyingly, when I was looking online for interesting ways to teach about dreams to kids, my searches kept returning hits for "Helping ...

"Nocturnal animals" as a category is, of course, too large to cover in a day, so we were specifically focusing on adaptations and ...

There is so much great literature featuring NIGHT as a theme or a symbol. We loved all the stories we read this first day, and kept track o...

I decided to make the last day of this unit a study of other uses of explosives---they're not only for fireworks, after all. We read som...

There are some really cool books and websites that explain how fireworks work. One of our favorite websites was this one , but there are lot...

Probably my favorite part of our Fireworks Unit was this colored flame demonstration. We had talked about chemical compounds and their flam...