Monthly Archives: January 2012

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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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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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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