Homeschool Minute - Them Bones!

Now that it is October , we are having a lot of fun. I have saved a lot of things for this month. Perfect timing to learn about bones and the body. We did the skeleton today. I got this free printable from Confessions of a Homeschooler that has the skeletal system and internal organs. We will do the organs Friday. Little Man had fun with this. I left it all apart and he had to put it together like a puzzle and then put the labels in place where they go. He used the Skeleton Key for that today. Soon, he should be able to do it without the help.

We will be working on some great fun things this month. Learning about bats, mummies, etc.

Cloth Hankies - DIY Sewing

Eveyone in our house has allergies. They are starting up now. I spent the evening sewing some cloth hankies that are super soft for the nose. These are super simple to make. In a few minutes you can sew one.

Sew your two layers of soft fabric right sides facing. Sew them all of the way around, leaving a small opening where you can turn them right side out. Fold in the opening and top-stitch the whole way around. Easy and you will soon have a whole stack of soft hankies for the allergy season and the winter cold &flu season.

They are practically free also. I use old t-shirts.

The Yellowstone Conundrum

The Yellowstone Conundrum (Is this the end?) was a free book when this post was written. A fiction book for you to read. This is about something that scares the crap out of me. I really think that it could happen. :(


 The Yellowstone Caldera, the most dangerous hot-spot on the surface of the earth, erupts with a series of 11.2 earthquakes and spews volcanic ash high into the atmosphere. Six hundred miles away a 9.45 quake under Puget Sound causes massive destruction to Seattle as a tsunami strikes and destroys most of the waterfront.

The Fort Peck Dam in Montana on the Missouri River fails as does the Jackson Dam on the Snake River. The power grid in the Western United States quickly disintegrates, with utility companies fending for themselves. Power outages reach the East Coast.

The Beginning of the End is a page-turning novel with readers following eight characters as they scramble out of harm's way on Day One of the Yellowstone Conundrum; everyday people put into extraordinary situations, with the President of the United States and his cabinet scrambling in the background to find how to escape from lose-lose scenarios.

The Columbia Generating Plant on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation suffers great damage and begins a meltdown. Bridges in Portland collapse. Infrastructure in the NW is severely damaged and thousands are killed; Salt Lake City, Boise, Denver and every city, town and village in the Pacific Northwest are affected.

The massive Death Cloud from the Yellowstone explosion sends volcanic ash into the jet stream, which then begins to carry the heavy ash south across Wyoming, over Denver until it catches up with a low pressure system advancing across Texas.

Follow army vet Ray Spaulding as he survives the crash of a WSDOT ferry in the tsunami, then manages to save, then lead a handful of everyday people who rally together to save the Seattle Public Library from destruction by gangs.

University of Washington professor Denny Cain and student Karen Bagley vow to get out of Seattle, only to find themselves in a firefight as the local Seattle gangs attempt to claim the night.

Skier Penny Armstrong fights her inner demons by skiing north toward Billings in an attempt to avoid the Death Cloud.

Long-distance trucker Cameron Hedges is forced to step out of character as he first rescues Betsy Jamison, then convinces an entire town to move out of harm's way.

Robert and Nancy O'Brien, both up-and-coming managers within the Department of the Interior are separated by their jobs, then by the earthquake and explosion.

The President of the United States must deal with his own Kobayoshi Maru, with a series of impossible lose-lose scenarios as the power grid in the United States collapses.

Radiation Network

Radiation Network

Radiation levels in USA just keep going up and up. 

Pinterest Homeschool Board

Pinterest

I started this board awhile ago and it is full of tons of great things to do , freebies, advice , and more.