Category: homeschool
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Mother’s Day week, funny girls, & favorite things
In my life this week… First of all, did you read about last Saturday? It was a kind of a big deal: Learning what {mothering} really is. A bit of silliness while shopping at T.J.Maxx, and my Mother’s Day roses: Kathryn worked as my assistant on a newborn session earlier this week. She is a…
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A week of birds, birds, birds!
Our hummingbirds are back! Last weekend I hung a feeder and bought a colorful hanging plant for the back porch, trying to give the hummers a better chance of finding the feeder. The next morning, I got buzzed when I took Lacy outside, and this week I’ve seen them coming and going, even while I’m…
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Our Week: Interest-Led Nature Study and More!
LAST WEEK: We finished up Kathryn’s semester of enrichment classes, finally came to the end of the book Freckles (which we loooooved!), and Kathryn and I served at a soup kitchen! I’ve looked far and wide for a ministry opportunity where kids were allowed to serve, and this one dropped right in my lap. Neither…
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Learning with MawMaw & Papa
These photos are from back in 2008, when Kathryn was just 7 years old. As homeschoolers, we’ve all heard it… what about socialization? I’ve thought about this often over the years, and there is one specific day that stands out in my memory: a day we spent with with Ken’s grandparents, who live about two…
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Nature Study: Crows
I love it when a nature study comes to us, rather than when we have to go looking for it. (Mostly because I have slacked big-time this year in planning for studies!) We came home one day last week to find this garden snake in our driveway, being attacked by crows. We actually like snakes…