Last week, the Home crew grew crystals from borax soap. Borax soap-as in laundry detergent, just check the laundry aisle…it’s a powder. This project was instigated through our Classical Conversations group, I am a tutor this year for master’s class. I admit, if I didn’t have to do this for the class, I most likely [...]
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Heart Stress-Test describes the jumpings and flutterings my heart muscle did as I watched my youngest 2 race around this empty pool at the skateboard park. They raced, several times. I don’t know why. -watched from far away, on a balcony. Too far to shout to them. too far to shout or get their attention. [...]
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A peek at our homeschool week that was… Monday found us very busy, our first day back-to-homeschool since our winter-holiday break. I started the day with a walk/run, and then had the kids dive enthusiastically into the meaty part of our studies. We started the morning off with a Bible reading, then table work for [...]
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Today was set aside for a nature walk with our Classical Conversations class. The only close venue available? The cemetery. It turned out to be a really good spot. We saw several different types of trees, including huge pines, magnolias and wonderful magnolia seed pods with bright red seeds- which were a revelation to the [...]
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We had a fun day at Classical Conversations today, we dissected owl pellets! This is something I’ve always had a hankering to try…when I was young, I read a lot, and somewhere I read about owls coughing up pellets- yet I wasn’t sure exactly what that meant, or what one would look like, but I [...]
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“Padawan, discovered the seat of ultimate homeschool power, have I? -Yes.” Behold the ingenious white-board concept I discovered through our Classical homeschool group.I mentioned it here briefly in *this post Here is the deceptively simple, yet brilliant concept: The grammar to-do list is written on the board, in list form on the left-for what we [...]
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I joined a new Classical Conversations group, without understanding what it was. Actually, I didn’t just join, I had to Jenny-fy it and sign up as a tutor, too. I like things messy. Not totally my mistake, really, Classical Conversations is kind of hard to explain. Here’s my take, as I see it, after going [...]
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