I like to plan field trips in the winter months. The kids get stir crazy, as do I, and it's a way to gear the month's lesson toward a crescendo. I knew I wanted to take the kiddos to the butterfly pavilion this winter, because its always such a warm and lovely escape from the winter chill. Plus, the butterflies are rad. We spent the month learning about the butterfly's life cycle, various spiders, (not a bug, technically an arachnid), centipedes (also not technically a bug

This month at day school, we voyaged into outer space. It was my goal to at least get the kids acquainted with the planets in our solar system, and to somehow convey the mind-blowing idea that we live on a sphere that is hurtling through space along with countless other celestial bodies. We read books about astronauts, took imaginary trips to Neptune on our space shuttle bed, and generally pointed our focus upwards and outwards. Normally, I'm scrambling to figure out enough c