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Visits to the Opera!

Posted in Children, Field trips, Homeschool, SHINE, fun, tagged , , , , , on April 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »

In the past 2 months, the girls and I have attended two operas (the boys weren’t interested…). I organized these trips to the opera for our local homeschool group after being contacted by one of the organizers for the San Antonio Opera Guild. They have been wonderful opportunities to learn about and experience an opera [...]

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This Side Up Christmas Concert!

Posted in Children, Holiday, Homeschool, SHINE, fun, tagged , , , , on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Our SHINE Teen Band…This Side Up held their first Christmas Concert last night! They did wonderful! Great job everyone! They spent many hours in practice for this concert and it really showed!
Here are a few pictures of from the event (and of our family), and below are the videos of the actual concert. It is [...]

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Crystal Snowflakes!

Posted in Children, Holiday, Homeschool, fun, science, tagged , , , , , , on December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Last night in doing some searching for Christmas ideas, I came across this recipe for making crystal snowflakes from Borax and water.
You can find the recipe/instructions here:
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/howtos/ht/boraxsnowflake.htm
So we made these this morning and they were done by just after dinner! They crystallized very quickly which is wonderful! They turned out very pretty! We did learn [...]

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PreTeen Girls Christmas Party Fun!

Posted in Children, Holiday, Homeschool, SHINE, fun, tagged , , on December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Here is a slideshow I made of our SHINE PreTeen Girls Christmas party!
The girls had a wondeful time and did very well together! A lot of fun was had by all despite our crazy weather….going from 85 degrees to about 45 during the time of the party! (See my post here: www.wendyclayton.blogspot.com )

Make [...]

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