Immagination at work

I looked out my front window to observe this this afternoon...I love seeing minds at work.

Putting up some string on the front porch. Then running a Kinex creation along the string.

A good home school day

These are the words that a home school mom loves to hear:

Five year old doing math, "This is so easy."

A samplings of his math page (now he's on the third one today...just for fun):

70= 40 + ___ 

50 - ___ = 30

100 = 20 x ___

(3 x 10) - 5 = ___

This guy was asked to write a story for his writing assignment today. Instead of writing in normal English, he was given the assignment to write a story using 12 American Indian symbols using his Cub Scout book. 

Here's the story in English words:

One stormy evening a man and a woman and a boy say hungry around a campfire. The heard a live bear. The man was the top man of the village. One morning a man on a horse rode up with beaver brothers.  The woman called a council. Then they heard a big voice, it was the wise man. He told them to make peace with the man on the horse. The end.

This is what a pound of bay leaves looks like

As I had posted earlier, I have been buying spices in bulk and today I picked up my order for a pound of bay leaves...I had no idea how many bay leaves make up a pound, but here's a picture compared to my Joy of Cooking book. 

If anyone would like any, you may buy some off of me for $1.00/ounce let me know. An ounce of leaves would be too big to fit into snack bag. I think most things that simmer in my house will be getting some bay leaf flavor! (I bought some ground cloves too if you need to fill your spice cabinet with that. I did price that out at the grocery store and buying a pound of them is 1/4 the price of buying the small jar at the store. I use it for pumpkin bread which is selling quite well for me.)