Science+Geography
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 17th, 2018
Category Archive for 'Susanna'
This afternoon the girls decided that they needed to organize our cluttered kid shelves in the library, and before I knew it, they had set up a whole library station in the library. Susie is the librarian while Lizzie checks out books!
Huntington Library and Gardens
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 7th, 2018
Over Spring Break, we met up with some friends to visit the Huntington! We never made it into any of the libraries or museum buildings, but the botanical gardens were beautiful! We brought along our nature journals and our trusty prismacolors and did the real Charlotte Mason thing for once. We’ll definitely be back again […]
Kern County Pioneer Village
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 6th, 2018
After all the Northern California adventures, we drove back inland and stopped in Bakersfield for one last field trip. The Kern County Pioneer Village is full of over 100 historical buildings, sortof like a low-budget Greenfield Village. It was good to show the kids more of the agricultural heart of the state.
Sutter’s Fort and the Capitol
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 5th, 2018
The rains held off enough for us to head over to Sutter’s Fort the next morning. Then we headed over to the Capitol building for a tour.
Old Sacramento, Cheese Skirts, and the California Railroad Museum
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 4th, 2018
Our next stop was Sacramento. They’ve preserved much of their historical downtown as a place for museums and tourist trap shopping. We skipped the tourist traps and looked into the Sacramento history museum, historical schoolhouse and Wells Fargo offices, and the California State Railroad museum. For lunch, Derek found a great burger dive, home of […]
Alcatraz!
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 3rd, 2018
My back was hurting so much from lugging around my 8-lb lens that I changed it out for my cheapo kit lens on Wednesday when we went to Alcatraz. Turns out something is wrong with its focusing mechanism, and I spent the day angrily trying to force the camera to work, then giving in and […]
Marin Headlines and Sausalito
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 2nd, 2018
On our second day in San Francisco, I wanted to give us a break from museums and tours, so we drove across the Golden Gate Bridge to the Marin Headlands, where it’s mostly state parks and beaches. We visited the Marine Mammal Center, a nonprofit dedicated to rescuing sea mammals and helping rehabilitate them for […]
San Francisco Maritime National Park and San Francisco Bay
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 1st, 2018
Derek got us a hotel right on Fisherman’s Wharf, so most of our time in San Francisco was spent right along the Bay. On our first full day, we explored WWII submarine USS Pampanito and liberty ship USS O’Brien. Then we took a cruise of the Bay! There’s a Susie behind all that hair […]
Mission San Juan Bautista
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Mar 31st, 2018
In fourth grade, all California children are supposed to visit one of the missions and study it as part of our state history. Last year, it didn’t fit into what Tommy was studying in history, so we did it this year, splitting the difference. We read Zia (the sequel to Island of the Blue Dolphins, […]