JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Inspired by the Ignite Seattle challenge and Bre Pettis’ blog posts, the girls and I decided to try our own egg drop experiment even though we couldn’t make it to the meeting on Tuesday night.
First I got out the shipping box I had received from Apple with my MacBook repairs and I let [...]

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Ted and I have had fun photographing these Red Emperor tulips which have begun to bloom in the past few days. The girls and I planted the tulips as partcipants with other teachers and kids in a Journey North project (see this map of tulips across the continent, and a few in Europe). My [...]

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and the girls had fun today discovering that our silverware can conduct electricity.

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Ich mag Mohnkuchen!
I was happy to discover Roland Tanglao with Boris Mann auf Deutsch, speaking on the delights of poppy seed cakes and other German treats available in Vancouver.
Note to Ted Wenn wir wieder nach Canada gehen, mussen wir Mohnkuchen kaufen!
On my first trip to Germany at age 15 I enjoyed the poppy seed [...]

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The box has been in the house for months and yesterday I encouraged the girls to try making something with Snap Circuits. When the light bulb turned on, Abigail’s face lit up too. I didn’t think it would happen! She stared at it for a while, amazed. Soon the girls were all addicted to circuits. [...]

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I believe in taking responsibility for my own actions. So I know it is not truly Doc Searls’ fault that our spicy soup for dinner last (Monday) night developed another burned flavor, bits of black mixed among the vegetables. Just large pieces of wild rice, yeah, that’s what I told the family: Add some Tabasco.
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For six weeks this spring, the girls and I took a sign language course and it changed us more than I had imagined. I had been trying to teach my daughters a few signs, using a book, so I was eager to enroll them in a class taught by someone fluent in ASL. Abigail and [...]

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It’s not every morning that you have to tell your children that their pet has died.
I am grateful.
Our tiny tree frog tadpole liked to hide between the rocks at the bottom of the aquarium. It didn’t swim around often. For fear that it would die without us noticing, I would check twice a day, whenever [...]

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Since I like to try what I read on blogs (it’s documented!), I took some suggestions and cooked up a few experiments in the kitchen with the kids. I figured a 99 cent package of purple Easter Peeps Bunnies was a small price to pay for science…
Floating Peeps:
Both Michaela and Elisabeth wanted to see whether [...]

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Watching the frog eggs develop this week surprised me. I’ve never seen a tadpole appear. The eggs which were dull black dots last Friday when I took them from the pond, now have transformed into transparent sacs, growing in size to accommodate the metamorphosis begnning now. If I move the bowl sometimes I will see [...]

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