It’s summer and you know what that means—camping season! Or in my case, “Hell no, I don’t want to come camping with you” season. I appreciate the offers, I really do. I’m sure you do have a wonderful time reconnecting with nature, star gazing and Kumbayaing your brains out, but it’s a hard pass … [Read more...]
Stunning Wildlife Photography Exhibit Features Children Photographers
The most prestigious Nature Photography exhibition in the world is now open at the Royal Ontario Museum for the third consecutive year. The Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) exhibition features 100 award-winning images from the most recent competition organized by the Natural History Museum in … [Read more...]
Toad-ally Grossed Out
I've posted before about my absolute fear of frogs and toads. It was embarrassingly obvious to all of my fellow UM bloggers when we were at Blue Mountain last month. Anytime we walked by the frog pond I would look straight ahead, walking quickly clutching whoever's arm was closest to my … [Read more...]
FotoFriday – Perfect Playground
This is my "office" This is where I commute 7 minutes to everyday. I could stand out here all day taking in the crabapple blooms and the lavender fragrance. It's very soul soothing. … [Read more...]
Infographics for Everyone!
We all love infographics, right? Information chunked into digestible little bits and represented in a pictorial spread makes things easy to understand, quick to process, and draws us in by being visually catchy. They are all over the online world, but have also long been a staple of children's … [Read more...]
We Are All Made of Stars
My cousin posted this Carl Sagan quotation on facebook yesterday: "The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff."I loved it, although I have been singing Moby ever … [Read more...]
Math in the Great Outdoors
A new series of books uses the world around to help teach math concepts to young kids. This fall counting, sorting, and patterning book is the first book in the Math in Nature series from OwlKids. Counting on Fallby Lizann FlattOwlKidsISBN: 978 1 926973 36 4How might awareness of math change … [Read more...]
Chomp!
Carl Hiaasen for kids? Oh, yes. This is his fourth, in fact! And good stuff it is, too. Chompby Carl HiaasenKnopfISBN: 978 0 375 86842 9Wahoo (no really, that's his name) and his dad Mickey are animal wranglers - and doing just fine, until his dad suffered a concussion and had a hard time working. … [Read more...]
Some Come HAPPY?!
I used to think that happy babies were nothing more than urban legend. My first two kids weren't colicky screamers, but they were somewhat high maintenence babies. They needed lots of jostling and rocking and soothing and bouncing and they didn't fare well with traveling or change or … [Read more...]
Love many, trust a few, and always paddle your own canoe
"What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child … [Read more...]