Time to say hi!

I can’t believe it’s been so long since I posted! Rest assured that we have been very busy with summer time, hosting a French student over the summer and then getting our school year going!
I have been posting most of my pictures, etc. to my Facebook account, but plan to get back to posting what [...]

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First Day of School!

We started school this year a bit later than I normally do, but right on track with the local public schools! We had a more relaxed day of getting our supplies organized and set up, watching school related movies, making moccasins and sharing yummy frozen coffee drinks!!! Can you think of a better way to [...]

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Cooperation: States and Regions – New England

Here is our plans/activities for Week 2! We are just finishing this up this week.
Cooperation: States and Regions – New England
Week 2 of 14
Day 1

Bible: Phillipians 1:6 (review founding of America/New England with The Light and the Glory)
Songs: Seafaring songs and “This Little Light of Mine”
Writing: Older – report on whaling process
Middle – report [...]

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Cooperation: States and Regions – Overview

 Hello! I have not been able to keep everything updated this year like I wanted to! I hope to be able to keep up with posting what we are doing with our unit through the end of the year. This is a 14 week unit..so we will be working on it through the end of [...]

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Inquisitiveness: Earth — “Earthballs”

Here are some pictures from the “Earthballs” the kids made with Dad last week while I was working. I was able to sample them when I got home–they tasted really good and were huge!
My oldest daughter and husband worked together to do the meatballs and take these pictures!
They did talk about what each part of [...]

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New Unit: Inquisitiveness – Earth

We began a new unit a couple of weeks ago, though it is taking us a long time to get through everything because of our schedule!
We use the KONOS curriculum. We are currently also subscribing to the online co-op that they have started offering for Volume 2. It has been soooo helpful this year! [...]

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Notes on: Inquisitiveness: Scientists/ Scientific Method

Well, I am finally getting around to posting what we are working on. I will type of all my plans formally and post the file soon. We were delayed in getting going with this next unit because of everything else going on in our lives right now!
We did our first official day of activities [...]

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Funny how…

It is always so interesting how no matter how well planned I try to be, things just don’t seem to go as planned! In the midst of stressing over trying to get all my kids weekly goals planned and typed up, trying to stick to our new schedule while trying to prepare for the start [...]

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Wonderful Timeline Book!

I had the pleasure of meeting Cyndi Kinney at a Lapbooking workshop she hosted recently. She shared with us about her new timeline notebook that she has designed. I just purchased it yesterday and I would highly recommend it!
We use the KONOS timeline wallchart, and we will continue to do so, but we don’t always [...]

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Inquisitiveness: Research and Reference

We finally made it to the library for the first part of our library activities today.
We were there for about 1 1/2 hrs. The kids did really well and actually had a lot of fun learning how to look up books on the computer and find them on the shelves. The kids are looking forward [...]

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