Lizard Skin

We have been studying dinosaurs and today we made Lizard Skin. It is just rice crispy candy on steroids. It doesn't look to much like lizard skin unless you squint. It has peanut butter, marshmallows, and green food coloring. But the kids had a great time.
We hit story time at the library last week. It is geared to younger kids but they always do a neat craft so the kids like to go. This past week as the librarian was reading the last book one of the little kids pulled the fire alarm. They made everyone evacuate the building and wouldn't let us back in. I thought it was interesting that we could see the fire department from the library parking lot but no fire truck ever came. After about 20 minutes the librarian told us we would do the craft next week and we all left. I'm glad we weren't really on fire.
I have been getting organized for next years schooling. DD will be in 3rd grade and DS will be in K. I was going though some worksheets that were grade appropriate and realized that in most things DS should be going into first grade. His birthday is in Dec so I have decided to see how he does and if he should be in first grade by his birthday, I will move him up.
We joined the local art museum today. We joined because I found out they do a homeschooling art group once a month. It would be a great way to meet other homeschoolers as well as learn about art. I cannot really find a homeschooling association that is close. There seems to be some great ones in this state but none that are close by. So I am hoping to meet a few people.
I found a great website for unit studies. It has a few unit studies on it that will be great for DS. Unit studies are when you take one subject and learn all about it using any means or methods. For example. If you are studying dinosaurs, you learn all aspects. Out math worksheets involve dinos, our reading, writing, all involve dinosaurs. You use dinos as the subject of everything you teach. This works great for DS because he some things he is very interested in and is willing to learn all about them.