August 2013 – SUMMER OF FUNNER

Summer of Funner Film Festival 2013: Dystopian and Urban Films

August 31, 2013

Last year, we had quite a formal Summer Film festival. We made tickets and produced a “Film Review” worksheet for […]

August 29, 2013

Today, I got the kids hooked on Ray Bradbury. I read the kids two of my favourite short stories, “A

August 27, 2013

On Friday, the kids had a friend over, and, already outfitted for the water, we did a little “face” painting

August 26, 2013

This week, we read portions of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, and we watched two film versions: a somewhat-faithful 3-hour television movie

August 22, 2013

The first man I saw… had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were

August 19, 2013

What began as a desire to have a backyard campout became a Backyard Campout Weekend!! In the hopes of finding a

August 18, 2013

It’s Ghost Story time at Summer of Funner! On Friday, as part of our outdoor campout [post to follow], I

August 8, 2013

Today, I read the kids a large section of Book 9, Paradise Lost [from about l. 415 to the end].

August 7, 2013

This is more of a love letter than a traditional post … One of the best pieces of prose I’ve

August 6, 2013

Some days you just need to take it easy! Just the other day, we set the kids loose in the