Cowboys and Clouds

We have nine days left of school, and that’s a good thing because the kids are getting Summer Fever really badly!  Really, our school is starting to wind down.  Kara and Luke are both finished with the video portions of their classes, so that shortens our day quite a bit.  Today was Western Day in [...]

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Camp Fire USA: Trail to the Future

We had a very good Camp Fire USA meeting this afternoon.  We finished the Fun with Science project of the Trail to the Future with this lesson entitled I Wonder Why.  This lesson was a mis-match of several simple experiments that the kids really enjoyed. We started out doing an activity using a small jar [...]

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Camp Fire USA: Fun With Science

Yesterday we had a very interesting Camp Fire USA meeting.  We continued the Fun With Science project of the Trail to the Future.  This lesson was called “Up and Down.” We began talking about machines and how they help us every day.  We did some simple experimenting with ramps and friction.  The kids found this [...]

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Camp Fire USA: Trail to the Future

 After having a few weeks off, we started back up with Camp Fire USA this afternoon.  Brock’s Bear Scout group is now meeting with the Webelos on Friday afternoons, so we have moved our Camp Fire meetings from Tuesday evenings to Friday afternoons as well. We are working on the Fun With Science Emblem of [...]

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Boy Wanted

Last week, John was reading to me from his 5th grade Abeka reader entitled Of America, Volume 1.  (copyright 1999:  Pensacola Christian College)  I was greatly impressed by this poem written by Frank Crane that he read from pages 88-89: Boy Wanted by Frank Crane A boy who stands straight, sits straight, acts straight, and talks [...]

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Camp Fire USA: March 11, 2008

Yea!  My computer is back to running!  On Tuesday, I was using the computer when the telephone rang.  I answered the telephone and visited awhile, and when I came back to my work, my computer had shut down.  I tried to restart it, but it wouldn’t start Windows!  I have no idea what happened. We [...]

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Newspaper Yo-yo’s and Biscuit Turnovers

Last night we continued the Safe and Secure project of the Trail to Knowing Me in Camp Fire USA.  We did the lesson called Nobody Wins a Fight.  This was a good lesson for us–a reminder that arguing and fighting rarely solves a problem and that there are more constructive ways to deal with disagreements.  [...]

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Camp Fire USA: Marbles Pin Project Completed!

We had Camp Fire USA this morning.  We usually have it on Tuesday evenings when Brock goes to Cub Scouts, but his leaders changed their meeting to today, so we changed ours too! We completed the requirements for the marbles pin today.  I am so glad that we did this project because the kids really [...]

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Camp Fire USA: Trail to Creativity

Tonight everyone was feeling well enough to have Camp Fire USA!  YEA!!  Although no one is yet operating at 100%, hopefully we are all improving. We completed the Creative Arts project of the Trail to Creativity by doing the lesson called “Pull the String.”  We did a strange art project for this lesson that used [...]

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Chinese New Year and Camp Fire USA

My kids have been cycling through the flu.  It started with Kara, then Cosette, Brock, John, and Luke.  So, things haven’t been too peppy around here, but hopefully everyone will be feeling better soon. Even though the kids were kind of dragging along, I decided to go ahead and have Camp Fire USA.  After all, [...]

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