Rainy Days Not much going on for us right now in rainy Vancouver. Not much fun to be outside but still essential to get out there and stretch out legs and breathe some ocean air, to breathe that salty

Lord of the Slopes Snowmaggedon has hit Vancouver. The schools are closed and the toboggan hill is full. Likely by this time tomorrow, we will be looking at a soggy mess; and so after I did some online

Lord of the Flies and Lifestyle The arctic air has gone nowhere. Vancouver is as frigid as Vancouver gets. It is minus 9 degrees celsius, as I pen this blog. It was still colder overnight. These flowers

Car Free Day Today was car free day on Denman Street in Vancouver's West End. The weather was accommodating, and the rain held off for most of the day. I wore my favourite fall jacket and scarf. Oh Fall,

Literary Elements The weather is still rather fine in Vancouver, but the temperatures are dropping slightly. My favorite kind of weather. Sunny and crisp. Yesterday, Minime and I grabbed a football and

Road Trip with the Mitchells Minime and I took a break from our studies on Saturday to morning to catch the Mitchell's Versus the Machines at the Cineplex. MVM starts of as family dramedy. Generational

A Dwarf Planet and Diminishing Footprints In between swimming, pitch and putt, fireworks, parades, and aimless summer wandering through the city, we have been finishing up our Canadian Curriculum grade

Chindogu Chindogu is the Japanese art of making unuseless inventions, like shoes with umbrellas. The shoes will keep your feet dry but they are also an absurdity. Chindogu results in useful inventions

Time and Milk Cartons I had imagined that come summer the fourth dimension would magically multiply, stretch out, and I would find free time lying around atop the time-spece continuum. Things are suppose

Woke the Mello We had a lovely weekend once again. Saturday was Canada Day. For some reason, Vancouver did not have fireworks. I am not sure I would have braved the crowds anyways. Minime got dressed up

The New Seven Wonders of the World In 2007, more than 100 million people voted to crate the New Seven Wonders of the World list. The following list is in no particular order and meant to represent global

Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank The Nobel Laureate and professor of Economics, Muhammad Yunus, founded the Grameen Bank in 1983. The professor saw real-world problems as opportunities and was willing

Mythical Creatures We are asked to give a brief description of the following mythical creatures. Centaurs are a mixture of man and horse. They have a horse body and the torso, head and arms of a man. They

The Heroic Story of Sang Lan Sang Lan was a young gymnast for China who suffered a spinal cord injury at the at the 1998 Goodwill Games while vault jumping. She was paralyzed from the neck down. Before

#The Three Roses The Three Roses is a Czech folktale. There was a mother who had three daughters. There was going to be a market and she was going to go to it. Two daughters asked for a lot of stuff. The

Summer Solstice Resolutions and Poetic Similies Caden Teneycke describes a New Year's resolution as decision or promise that people make that they plan to do or keep for the whole year. They might decide

Literary Devices and Sneetches Point of View The Sneetches is told with the narrator outside of the story. It is told in third person. Symbolism The stars on the Sneetches is an example of symbolism. Stars

Self Image Self image is the same as self - concept. They are the ways we think about ourselves, the ideas and opinions we have of ourselves. I see myself as having a good sense of humour and being resilient

Sneetches, Swimming, and Sneaky Patties It really does feel like summer has arrived in Vancouver. Last year it didn't arrive until autumn; and so I am not complaining. We are habitually getting highs into

Guardians of the Galaxy We have been working so hard these days. It was definitely time for a reward. One of the advantages of homeschooling is we can plan things when few others are about ... being busy