working on the science notebook

Saturday, March 14th, 2026

 

 

 

Homeschooling 101

Saturday, January 10th, 2026

I lowered the chin-up bar so that Akiva can reach it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Iris studies on the couch.

 

الدير Ad-deir (The Monastery)

Monday, December 8th, 2025

Iris sculpts a scale model of The Monastery at Petra, Jordan for her end-of-term project in her physical geography class.

 

 

Her full report can be found here.

 

Calvin & Hobbes

Sunday, May 11th, 2025

All of Akiva’s literary quotes come from in-depth study of Calvin & Hobbes.

Knowing how much he liked the cartoons, I suggested he read it in French, for French practice.

 

 

 

 

In response, he wrote a five-sentence argumentative essay

on why he should not read Calvin & Hobbes in French.

He won.

 

 

 

 

On the Golden Chair in the library,

Sunday, May 4th, 2025

Iris studies.

 

What are the kids doing while we watch science videos?

Monday, March 10th, 2025

Grooming the dog.

 

 

 

Playing with tanks.

 

two more tessellations

Sunday, January 26th, 2025

 

 

 

New Tessellation

Saturday, January 25th, 2025

Akiva wakes early and works with pattern blocks before breakfast.

 

 

 

He continues after lunch, around nap time.

 

 

 

Mid afternoon, he puts the finishing touches on his new tessellation.

 

 

 

Later, we will take out the large triangles and replace them with small triangles.

 

Copywork

Saturday, January 18th, 2025

Trevar Island

Tuesday, December 17th, 2024

For her cartography class, Iris learned to use Arc-GIS storymaps to create a webpage.

Her end-of-term assignment was to create a map of a made-up place.

She created Trevar Island and its people.