Tag Archives: science

sea and roots

By Lucy | Published October 16, 2010

cool little thing this – The Scale of the Universe Related posts:rabbits, cliffs, cushions and steamed chocolate pu…wizard whimstaff & lemon clockrainbow

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This is a site we used quite a bit back at the more curriculified beginning of home education – a quick blog search reveals the first mention of it almost exactly 5 years ago! From the Guardian, it covers the whole national curriculum, primary and secondary and does have some really interesting bits and ways [...]

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Peregrines

By Lucy | Published June 9, 2010

Wonderful place this, great home ed group event there a few more pics in our home education set on flickr and a short video of the squirrels below, much topical talking in background… Related posts:kitten warpuppets and castlegood books

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lovely herbs and the unintended

By Lucy | Published February 9, 2010

Cat has a wonderful new website: The Tasty Herbalist - go see Strange day today where a slight disaster led to us doing totally unintended things such as visiting the Wallace and Gromit exhibition at Satrosphere. It was very good, also being about other animation and techniques etc. Related posts:chocolate and castlebooks sunherbish

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swans and electronics

By Lucy | Published August 5, 2009

Wow – the sun is intense just now though there’s a very autumnal feel in the air too. Love it. This electronics kit was dug out and inflicted on a new victim keen learner Related posts:Loch Muickgorgeous glasgowHappy Birthday Charlotte

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paint and flames

By Lucy | Published November 20, 2008

Had a nice time at Smarty Art in Granton-on-Spey with the HE group. We’ll get our glazed and fired pieces back at the Christmas party… lovely helpful people in the group Bits of science, first from previously mentioned Krampf: then chemistry set was dug out to build on what Ben was telling them about firework [...]

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purple smoothie and igloo

By Lucy | Published September 18, 2008

a smoothie of the moment: lots of brambles (blackberries) about 3rd of the jug, 2 bananas, 1 mango, lots apple juice, 1 tsp spirulina, 1 tsp purple corn extract and a random sprig of parsley left over from day before (you don’t taste it) – for best results Vitamix (or blendtec…)! For our page on [...]

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February 2008

By Lucy | Published February 28, 2008

totally lost the archives for this month but they exist in photographic form on flickr if you want to take a peek There was a fab trip to stay with Cat in Glasgow, paper making with HE group, solar powered boat, chinese food, snow and DS English and Maths… little bits below Related posts:festive scrapbookinganimal farmgarden [...]

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embalming…

By admin | Published January 18, 2008

Had a fascinating afternoon yesterday learning all about embalming. This is one of Moonrabbit Lucy’s many areas of expertise, one of her 4 current jobs, and I’d asked her to give us a talk on it :) It was an excellent lesson - we studied veins, arteries, bones, tissues, diseases, tools of the trade, the history of embalming, chemicals used… [...]