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Weekly Wrap-Up: Almost Spring Break!
I am soooooo deliquent in writing my weekly wrap-ups! So let’s see if I can catch up on what we’ve been doing lately. We are still enjoying the Winter Promise “Children Around the World” program. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been studying Africa. We’ve “visited” different regions of the continent, and have specifically studied…
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Our sweet nurse dog
Lacy the WonderDog can be a pain. She barks at the mail carrier. She sheds too much. She sneaks onto the furniture when she isn’t suppose to. She tracks mud into the house. She once ate the cord on the Dyson vacuum, and she has a fondness for stealing socks. But…this is where Lacy has…
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Snowy Fun in the sunny South!
This is a view I don’t often see out my window… On the rare occasions we do get snow here, it tends to be mostly ice, so it’s not very fun to play in. Yesterday, however, we had a nice fluffy snow — about five inches, which is the most Kathryn has ever seen, and…
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Nature Study: Snowflakes!
We had hoped for enough snow to build snowmen, have snowball fights, and to go sledding (which neither of my girls have ever done!), but we ended up with only a thorough dusting. However, there was enough snow to run around catching snowflakes on our tongue and for me to play right alongside the kids….
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Field Trip: Pioneer Fall Harvest
We’ve been a one-car family since we sold Ken’s Jeep (affectionately known as “Sarge”) back in July ’08, so field trips don’t happen as often as we’d like. But we are very blessed to have friends and family who homeschool, don’t live far away, and are interested in many of the same field trip things…
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Nature Study: Moss, Lichens, and More
Ken was out of town all week on a business trip and got in very late Wednesday night (actually Thursday morning!), so he decided to take the day off yesterday to relax. Since it was such a gloriously beautiful day, we decided to go for a nature walk and enjoy a picnic lunch. We went…