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I often say that we don’t do as much nature study as I’d like, but what I’ve come to realize is that, although we don’t always have pretty nature journal pages to show for it, and I don’t always take my camera along to document it all, our lives have gradually become more nature-focused. I [...]
On Monday, Lindsey was out of school, so Ken took the day off, and we planned a fun family outing. Since Lindsey is in public school, and since Kathryn’s bat mitzvah classes take up nearly every Saturday, the days we can do something together like this are rare, and we wanted to take advantage of [...]
I’ve been rockin’ and rolling with photography sessions this month — three just this week — so it’s cut into my blogging time. But I’m not complaining; I hope to keep building my clientele. Once I get in more of a groove, it shouldn’t cut into my regular schedule as much! Anyway, this weekly report [...]
We’re behind on the Beautiful Girlhood character studies with B’twixt and B’tween, but Kathryn and I had a good discussion this week about true beauty. This is so much easier to start talking about now, rather than waiting til she’s a teen. My goal is to start reading our chapter each week at a tea [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday we took a field trip to Zoo Atlanta. I hadn’t been since I was about Kathryn’s age! Ken was able to come with us, too — so in addition to really great company, we also had a great camera man in tow. [Love you, Honey!] I’m seldom in pictures (especially on my blog), so [...]
We’ve been studying marine animals in our biology study, Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day, so when friends offered us discount coupons to the Georgia Aquarium, we enthusiastically accepted! They are doing the same biology study in their own homeschool, so we invited them to come along, too! Another fun aspect of the day: the [...]
ONE more week til our Christmas break, and we are all glad! One of the moms in our homeschool group is from South Africa, and this is the time of year they are finishing up for the year — we decided we should adopt the South African way of doing things! {grin} Next week is [...]
Yesterday we had an indoor field trip/nature study about honeybees. A local beekeeper named Brian, who does presentations at many area schools, came to our church for our homeschool group. He did a great job! We have studied bees before, but Kathryn and I both learned so much! In Roman times, honey was worth it’s [...]
I had grand plans at the beginning of the school year that we would do a field trip each month. Ha! That didn’t happen, but there’s always next year, and this was a busier year than I expected when I made those plans. Anyway, yesterday we did field trip to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. I [...]
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