Monthly Archives: January 2012

Outdoor Adventure in the Edison Neighborhood

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Gretchen

[ January 11, 2012; 2:00 PM to 4:15 PM. ] We’ll practice some skills that have been introduced before like tree identification, compass reading, and decoders and work on some new skills like making maps.  This is in preparation for their geocaching or letter boxing adventure later this term.

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Mapping the Neighborhood

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Gretchen

Skills are mastered by practicing, again, and again.  That’s repeatedly clear when working with the boys on many of the navigational and plant identification goals we’ve given them.  They need multiple opportunities to use their skills.  So though we’ve “done” tree identification and compasses and map reading activities before, they were still challenged and certainly [...]

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Crazy Science Activities

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Gretchen

[ January 25, 2012; 2:15 PM to 4:15 PM. ] Plenty of science fun is planned for the boys at the Lieberman residence.  We’ll learn about water’s surface tension, blow things up in the microwave (ok, just “expand them”), and try to float eggs among other science activities.

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Fort Fun

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Gretchen

This wasn’t an official Daring Boys’ Club activity, but I’m posting pictures of our recent fort day, to encourage the rest of you Daring Boys’ Club families to try a fort of your own someday soon.  (Send pictures, and I’ll put them up here.)  We make forts occasionally, but I was recently inspired by a [...]

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Expanding Minds… and Ivory Soap… and Marshmallows!

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Gretchen

Last week the boys had a blast doing a variety of interesting science activities.  We talked briefly about the difference between experiments and demonstrations.  I tried to encourage them to work as a group to record their observations and reflections on the simple log I made, but they were a little too excited to get [...]

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