Winter in China

Today I received an email from my friend Lily, who is a photographer that lives in Anhui Province of China.  I have posted some of her pictures before.  She has quite the eye for artistic pictures, and these new pictures are good examples of that.   Her city of Hefei has been having an unusual winter–in [...]

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Out of the Mouths of Babes

This morning Luke was supposed to be paying attention in school.  Instead, he was all turned around in his chair and didn’t seem to be working very hard!  I was just about to call him down, but then I saw what he was doing:  He folded his hands, closed his eyes, and with the most passionate [...]

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Rainbow Dust

Tonight we began the Creative Arts project of the Trail to Creativity in our Camp Fire USA meeting.  This lesson was entitled Rainbow Dust.  We talked about the color wheel, and how mixing primary colors make secondary colors.
We put the color wheel into practice by making Rainbow Dust.  This is simply sugar colored with food [...]

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Cosette, My Sweet Optimist

Cosette has always had such a sweet, happy disposition.  She thinks cute, happy thoughts so often.  In fact, when she was younger she used to say that she wanted to grow up to be a slide in the park so she could help kids have fun!
Yesterday, Cosette spent time writing a “book” that she called [...]

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2008 Cub Scout Pinewood Derby

Today was our first venture into the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby.  My boys are first generation scouts, so we all learned together–by trial and error.  Believe me, we knew NOTHING about this stuff when we got the boys’ kits a few weeks ago!  We knew absolutely zero about carving, painting, or weighting the cars, let [...]

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100th Day of School

Today was Lesson 100 for this year’s school.  There are 170 total lessons, so we are definitely making headway!
Cosette was really disappointed because she thought that there would be something special on the dvd’s today.  She was sure it should be Hat Day or something!  But, that was not the case, so I told her that [...]

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Camp Fire USA: Trail to Family and Community

We had a very good meeting of the Christian Explorer’s Camp Fire USA club tonight.  We finished up the People Power project of the Trail to Family and Community.  Our lesson was entitled “Red, White, and Blue,” and its focus was on the symbolism of the USA flag.  We also made a simple craft project [...]

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School Scripture Memory

It’s that time again:  this week all of the kids have had memory verses due for school.  (All of my Abeka Academy kids, that is!  Kara is still doing BJU Homesat and doesn’t have verses yet.) 
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Camp Fire USA: Trail to Family and Community

Tonight we completed the Trash It lesson for the People Power project of the Trail to Family and Community.  We concentrated on the importance of keeping our communties clean by not littering.
We continued working on learning to tie shoes.  Cosette has definitely learned this skill, and Kara successfully tied her shoes independently tonight too!  I [...]

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Kara’s Letters

I think Kara is finally making real progress in learning her letters!  This has caused her a lot of problems–mostly because she is just plain stubborn!    I know these letters are new to her, and that the names of the letters can be confusing, but Kara is so smart, and she has just [...]

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