Tasmanian Devil
You can’t get up close and personal with a Tasmanian Devil as they are quite aggressive, but we did get to watch the little guy being fed (a small chick).
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 12, 2009 · Last modified March 29, 2016
You can’t get up close and personal with a Tasmanian Devil as they are quite aggressive, but we did get to watch the little guy being fed (a small chick).
This emu gave us a start when it tried to grab ED’s hat!
We always love Cleland Wildlife Park in Adelaide becauseyou are able to interact with the animals — pet the koalas,feed the kangaroo and wallabies and so forth.
This great playground was in a small, small town about 45minutes or so north of Adelaide. It’s a free playground, butis really unusual with long slides, two fly foxes, hugeswings, a pirate ship on the water and more. The kidsand the parents had a blast! It was so much fun — andyou wouldn’t believe looking at the skies that it wasbucketing rain as we drove from Adelaide!
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 7, 2009
I’ve been reading lots of books this holiday. Among other things (several novels, some science experiment books for kids and things like that), I’ve been re-reading one of my favorite resources, The Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. I find this book inspiring and I recommend it to anyone who has children whether you homeschool them or not. It gives so many amazing statistics, facts, and real-life examples about why...
We won’t be posting much of anything this next month. Happy Holidays!
LD enjoyed this game — this one from Games for Math byPeggy Kaye. It’s set up like a game of solitaire, but in thisversion LD had to find pairs whose sum equalled 10 (5/5,8/2, or the 10 card) The jacks, queens and kings wereremoved.
While ED and DD painted, LD wanted to workon his body — no weight lifting involved! He laydown on the paper and I did a rough outline ofhis body. Then he put together the bone puzzlefrom a book that Grams gave us.
We looked at the organs in the human body in thebook that Grams gave us and I penciled them inlightly on outline pictures of the kids’ bodies (bythis time DD wanted her outline done — and thenED immediately lay down on the paper and wantedhers done too!) I suggested to LD that he colorthe organs in (the book had them colored). Heoutlined them instead. DD and ED spent a lot...
We’ve been reading, learning and doing activities relatedto (American) Thanksgiving this week. I found a tree thatlights up at the discount store (Mad Harry’s, which soundslike it’s like the “Dollar Tree” I always hear about online). Anyway, this week I printed out some leaves on differentcolored paper. The kids had to think about what theywere thankful for. Each day I wrote down one or two oftheir ideas on a leaf...
Living where we do, our kids really don’t hear orlearn much about Native Americans. (On the otherhand, we have learned a lot on Aboriginal culture.)Anyway, this week I introduced them to some ofthe Native American tribes (in a VERY basic way). We read The Magic Tree House: Buffalo BeforeBreakfast. We watched the buffalo hunting scenein the movie, Dances With Wolves. And we pulledout some of the Native American items we...
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