Glen's Gizmos

04/01/2025

03/31/2025

https://babylonbee.com/news/kid-outed-as-homeschooler-after-looking-adult-in-the-eyes-while-talking

PLANO, TX — Local seven-year-old Benjamin Gunther was outed as a homeschooler after he looked an adult directly in the eyes while speaking in complete sentences.

03/31/2025

NEWBERG CLASS: Spring Sewing 2 (8+ Years / Deposit $52)

REGISTER HEREContinue gaining confidence on your sewing skills as we conquer learning how to read and understand patterns, creating a 3D object, and gathers! In this class we will be making cute st...

03/31/2025

NEWBERG CLASS: Sewing: Meadow Skirt (8+ Years / $52 Deposit)

REGISTER HERE Design your own A-line skirt with a button up front (so we can practice sewing buttons and buttonholes), elastic waist for comfort, and the all-important pockets! ...

03/31/2025

NEWBERG CLASS: Handiwork 2 (Returning Students Only): Carving Children's Character (6-14 Years / $39 Deposit)

This class has the prerequisite of a previous handiwork class. Returning students only in this particular class.REGISTER HERE Handiwork is a kids’ woodworking class focusing first, on building char...

03/31/2025

VANCOUVER CLASS: Clay Curious: Spring (4-7 Years / $39 Deposit)

REGISTER HEREClay is a fantastic medium for tactile and sensory exploration. Let little ones get to know the feel and joy of clay as each student is allowed to work at their own pace and skill leve...

03/31/2025

VANCOUVER CLASS: Elementary Ceramics: Spring (7-12 Years / $39 Deposit)

REGISTER HERETarget Ages: 7-12yearsStudents will fall in love with clay while learning and using several techniques including pinch pots, coil building, and slab construction. Experimentation with ...

03/30/2025

VANCOUVER CLASS: Teen Ceramics: Spring (12-18+ Years / $39 Deposit)

REGISTER HEREStudents will learn hand-building, sculpting, and design techniques as well as have the opportunity to be introduced to the pottery wheel in this studio class. Simple slips and glazes ...

03/28/2025

We are selling a nice, large pontoon boat if you know anyone who is interested, or who has riverfront/lakefront property. Link in the comments.

This boat has some age on it, but much of it has been professionally rebuilt and maintained over the years. It is in great shape overall. Last on the water in 2023 we simply aren't using it enough...

03/26/2025

Kinds of Weather Fronts: Catch the video with a free account over here https://www.homeschoolhub.org/posts/science-foundations-22-kinds-of-weather-fronts

03/23/2025

⭐🐟 The beautiful sea stars ("starfish"), classified as echinoderms, are one of the most easily identifiable marine invertebrates, with their characteristic radiating arms and stony skin of calcium carbonate. The sea star's water vascular system is one of the more amazing and complex arrangements in the animal world. The brittle stars and basket stars comprise the largest class of living echinoderms.

Recently, scientists "at the Biomimetics-Innovation-Center, Hochschule Bremen—City University of Applied Sciences, have made pioneering discoveries about how mechanical stress shapes the ultrastructure [fine structure within a cell] of starfish skeletons."

Instead of evidence for evolution, we see how sea stars are designed—like vertebrate bone—to respond to mechanical stress.

Read the full article:
https://www.icr.org/article/seastar-skeletal-evolution

03/21/2025

“I think that the Almighty gave springtime to a tired world so that its peoples might know rest. I think that He gave it to a troubled world so that the world's inhabitants might find peace. I think He gave it to a discouraged world so that hope and faith might be reborn! - Margaret Elizabeth Sangster”

Spring is officially here! My favorite season. :) have you seen signs of spring in your area yet? 🌱