SNOW-ish!

One inch of snow has been promised to us but of course the kids expect the six inches we got a few years back.

So here's the stone-cold skinny on the trick we tried:

Throwing boiling water into the super-cooled atmosphere...

McWane Science Center

McWane Science Center takes up a big corner of downtown Birmingham, AL and rightly so.  The ingenuity of the interactive displays more than makes up for the few missing pieces in the giant Tinker Toys.  The kids wanted to spend hours just laying on the bed of nails.  Nails go up...

Presidents, Lesson One

Seems like basic historical knowledge in the United States would start with the founding of the country and by default, the Founding Fathers and Early Presidents.

We have a great book called John, Paul, George and Ben.  My kids were indoctrinated into  Beatles culture early, so they got the joke right away.

The founding of the country is a great subject for little boys because...

"Times" Line

Here is a physical demonstration of multiplication facts.  Since the kids make their own, the information is more personal and absorbed more quickly.

Four pieces of notebook paper taped together to make one long sheet.  All the red lines lined up and the top margins were overlapped so the blue lines continued evenly down the entire length of the paper.

Each line was numbered from 1-100.

The line numbers were the...