Fraction Sundaes

Here's a sweet way to learn fractions: open your own ice cream parlor. I cut out lots of ice cream scoops and then gave the kids recipes that "customers" ordered, like 1/6 mint, 3/6 chocolate, and 2/6 bubble gum. We also practiced reducing fractions, but I started to lose them at that point. Afterwards we made our own real ice cream sundaes! The kids had so much fun making sundaes. Here they are with their notebook pages they made with their dream recipes.

New Temple!

Here is our family at the groundbreaking site for the new Payson temple. We are so excited to watch a temple be built right in our own backyard.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas????

Two weeks ago, we studied erosion in homeschool and how the forces of nature shape our earth. So, I scheduled a field trip to see Devil's Kitchen in Payson Canyon. It's basically a mini Bryce Canyon with red, unique rock formations that occurred because of erosion. I thought it would be cool to see some fall color as well and take some cool pictures. We did see a little fall color, but then, as we climbed, our autumn color tour turned into a walk through a winter wonderland.



Aspen grove.




Cool tree trunk

At Devil's Kitchen



Riley chasing me with a snowball. He got my boot :)

Mt. St. Halley Erupts!

Here's the volcano we made for our volcano study! We had a lot of fun doing this. The kids all loved watching it erupt over and over.

Hee hee. Riley can't smile cuz his mouth is still numb from the dentist.

Riley's TRON Birthday!

So Brian has gotten Riley and the rest of the boys at our house obsessed with Tron Legacy. I don't use the term obsessed lightly. Tyler watches the movie at least once a day and turns everything he's holding into an identity disk or a light cycle. Brian bought a bunch of the Tron toys for Riley, but then all the boys wanted to play with them and they started getting lost and broken, and that didn't make Brian happy, so I suggested that Brian make the boys a place where they could all play with the toys, but the toys had to stay there. So, the solution became the Tron city. Riley and Brian built it and then Brian and I painted it and unveiled it for Riley on his birthday. Here are the picts.

Riley's Tron identity disk cake that really looks like a tire. Oh well.

Megan's 11th Birthday!

My Meggo turned 11 in September! I cannot believe how fast the time has gone by. Since we celebrated her birthday with our girls' night out, for her actual birthday we had a small family party. Enjoy the picts!

The Copper Mine

For our field trip a few weeks ago we took the kids to the Bingham Copper Mine in South Jordan. We were studying rocks and minerals, so the kids really enjoyed seeing how we use these substances that are pulled out of the earth in real life. They also enjoyed the trucks that are as big as a house and looking down into the open pit mine which can fit 3 Sears' Towers stacked on top of each other. Very cool.