Author: Jamie
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A Week of Butterfly Nature Study
This week our main focus was butterflies! Sure, we did math, history readings, vocabulary, and all the other necessary subjects, but mostly, we watched butterflies. Two weeks ago, we had caterpillars. Kathryn was fascinated with them. The rest of us were pretty amazed at how fast they grew! After about a week, they turned into…
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You’re a Teacher? (the BIG picture)
(I’ve had this post written — mostly — for over a week. I set it to post last week, then changed it to post today instead. But then I was going to chicken out and postpone it til next week. Or the week after that. Or maybe the week after that…) Two years ago, Lindsey…
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Practicing Gratitude {1081 – 1092}
I’m continuing to count beyond one-thousand gifts… A new photo of me and Ken (thanks to Lindsey); one or the other of us — or both — are usually behind the camera, so photos of the two of us together are few and far between. Spring showers — when NOT accompanied by tornadoes. The scary,…
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Weekly Report: Catching Up
Did you know that caterpillars can help with math? Kathryn thinks so! We’re raising caterpillars into butterflies, and Kathryn is REALLY interested in them, so math went better — and less distracting — having them sit there at the table with us. (iPhone photo; forgive the quality) That was last week; now are caterpillars are…
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Springtime Flower Garden
My flower garden makes me sooooo happy in the springtime, so I want to share it with you. I’d like to have a pretty wreath on the front door, but birds build nests in it, and then we can’t go in and out that door for weeks for the sake of the baby birds. So…