Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Toothpick Bridge Competition

The final project for physics class was to construct a toothpick bridge.  Whichever bridge held the most weight was the winner!

The winning bridge!  Congratulations Leah!









 





Survive Alive Field Trip

Have you ever heard of Survive Alive?  It's a fire safety program located at the Indianapolis Firefighters Museum on Massachusetts Avenue.  The Survive Alive team presents fire safety in a fun and engaging way--they even have Survive Alive Village, complete with fake smoke to practice what to do in case of a fire!  Our younger and older children enjoyed Survive Alive, as well as the Firefighters Museum that we visited afterward.  We recommend you visit too!  Click here for the Survive Alive website.  



How tough are those boots?  Sarah can't feel Ezekiel jumping!

Check out those reflectors!

Sarah is modeling a firefighter's gear.

Don't be scared!  It's a firefighter here to help!  

Learning fire safety!

The whole group

Heart to heart between Mr. Vince and Luke

Aslan is the smoke detector.  Laura is the Mommy testing the detector.

This is a safe fire

About to practice "Stop Drop Cover Roll"

He's ready to "Stop, Drop, Cover, and Roll!"

Safely escaping the smoke

After exiting the window, the children gathered at a meeting place and one of them ran to the neighbor's to call for help.  All of this is in Survive Alive Village.  

World Culture Class!

These pictures are from world culture class last year, but they are so fun, we're posting them anyway!





Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Outdoor Skills Classes have begun.

 Today we learned about what to do if you're lost in the woods, distress signals, keeping your temperature regulated and of course how to make a fire.  Some of the younger children had never struck a match. After class we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows on our fire and some of the kids worked on a fort in the woods. Fun!
Start small
success!


Pine Needles make great tinder!

Finding Kindling

Where there's smoke there's fire!
Next week -  Can we make fire WITHOUT MATCHES??

Tuesday, May 21, 2013





Greetings! For our upcoming summer session we will be having an Outdoor Skills class. It's a fun class where we'll learn things like fire making, shelter building, and navigational skills. It's free, you just need to bring some basic supplies which you will be notified about a week before the class, and each family will need a compass. Park locations where we'll meet will be sent out a couple of days before the class. Any homeschoolers may attend- please RSVP for which classes you will be attending. Here are the times and dates:


July 16th 10am Fire Making
July 23rd 6 pm Advanced Fire Making
July 30th 10am Hydration in the wild
August 6th 6 pm Shelter Building
August 13th 10 am Orienteering and Using a Compass
August 20th 6 pm Outdoor Cooking

We hope to see you there!

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Rockets, Paint, Experiments, and Drama!

Today was another fantastic day at BCHE.  We made rockets in astronomy, painted impressionist paintings in art, learned about science with fun experiments from one of our students, and practiced our mini-play in drama.
Constructing a rocket.



More rocket construction.  We shot them off too, but we were too busy launching rockets to take any pictures  of it!  Since it was a windy day, the rockets kept blowing over.


However, later on in the day, the children decided to upgrade the rockets.  They used dry ice and water from their science experiments to fuel the rockets.  Brilliant!


Pre-schoolers painting
All of our artists!
Painting  van Gogh style



In progress
Finished!

Lots of dots!




Nice work!


Dry ice and lava lamps 







Drama




Pre-School!