Happy Noon Year!

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

-Edith Lovejoy Pierce

This year, we decided to have a Happy Noon Year's Eve Party.

Our guests arrived at 11 am and we counted down to noon.

We had already taken down our Christmas decorations, but some celebratory decorations were needed.

So tinsel, streamers and ribbons hung from the ceiling

  

We set up our snacks.

It is the best kind of party--potluck!

Our friends arrived and we got busy making a time capsule.

Good times!

Then it was ten minutes to noon, so we got coats and boots on and grabbed our confetti--popcorn!

3...2...1...Happy Noon Year!

We went inside for a smorgasbord of food and started the New Year off with a mouth full of goodies.

Later, we brought out the cookie sheets and...

                           
                                        went sledding!!

                            

                                             Happy 2013!

exploring space

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. 
Douglas Adams 

We had a bag of Oreos begging to be eaten, so we called our homeschooling neighbours over and decided to eat the phases of the moon

And we thought, "Why not make an edible comet?"

So we did. 

Here's the nucleus: frozen juice and fruit cocktail

Then you freeze it

While it freezes you make craters on the moon, using flour and oranges or marbles

Then punch out the constellations

And make a constellation box to study the stars with

The comets still weren't frozen, so we read chapters of The Wonderclock and played with geoboards, legos and art stuff

Applying glo-in-the dark glue to our planet mobile.

Our friends leave and take their half-frozen comets with them

Working on our outer space puzzle

Finally frozen, we roll our nucleus in sugar to represent the coma part of the comet

A long fruit roll up makes for a good-tasting comet tail