Author: Jamie
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A Day in the Life of our Homeschool!
I wake up at about 7:00AM so that I can make sure Lindsey is up and getting ready for school. (After her first day, she told me that no one had ever gotten up with her when she went to school before. So even though she’s doing great with getting herself out of bed, I’m…
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Canoeing the Chestatee (Nature Study!)
One of the moms in our homeschool support group has started a sort of off-shoot group for monthly outdoor adventures that focus on the beauty of God’s creation. Yesterday was the group’s inaugural trip: canoeing on the Chestatee River in the mountains of north Georgia. That sounded like a whole lot of fun, so we…
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Weekly Report: Week 2
Hurray for the second completed week of our homeschool year! Kathryn very much enjoys her enrichment classes. In art, they talked about English artist John Constable, who especially loved painting clouds and landscapes. Although he painted in oils, they are working on some watercolor techniques to paint landscapes. In her “American Girls” class, they discussed…
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Back-to-School Student Photos
Last week I started our homeschool year with Kathryn. She is rapidly approaching eleven years of age. When did that happen? Kathryn – 5th grade And of course, Lacy the WonderDog is always part of our homeschool days. Sadly, most places frown upon us bringing her on field trips. Which, as I think about it,…
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Nature Study: Pond Critters
It’s still really hot here in Georgia, so our nature studies are a bit shorter than they would be on a pretty fall day, but I’m determined to do them weekly — or nearly weekly, anyway! Thanks to the August edition of Barb’s “Outdoor Hour” newsletter, I decided we’d do a month-long pond-related nature study….