Posted in Caravan, Scouting on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Tuesday of this past week, my Caravan girls joined Luke’s Wolf Cub Scout den on a field trip to our local fire station. This was a special treat because our town got a brand new fire station only a few months ago. So, it was interesting to see this new, spacious, up-to-date facility. The [...]
Posted in Caravan, recipes on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago, the girls helped me to make Wagon Wheel Chili as part of Caravan. I based what we did on a recipe in Taste of Home’s Fun Food on p. 88. It was so easy and yummy! We also made “Mini Subs” to go with the chili, and those were also [...]
Posted in Camp Cooking, Caravan, Family, Scouting, recipes on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week the girls and I started back with our weekly Caravan meetings. We had taken off most of the summer, but since the boys are getting back into scouts, it was time for the girls to start up again too.
We still have a couple of badges to earn from our first book, and then [...]
Posted in Caravan, Family on May 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I haven’t been very consistent writing entries about what the girls are doing in Caravan, but they have completed a lot of merit badges. We still have three more to go in this level, so we will continue working on them during the summer.
Our latest badge about birds was really fun. We looked up a [...]
Posted in Caravan, Family on March 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A couple of times per month or more the girls have continued to help me make things in the kitchen. They have gotten pretty good at slicing and chopping, so today I decided to have them help me make some beef and vegetable soup from scratch. I must say that their soup came out very [...]
Posted in Caravan, Homeschool on February 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The girls are continuing to enjoy our weekly Caravan meetings. They have completed several of the badges. In fact, I think we only have 5 left for this level.
We have been doing a simple sewing unit. Cosette and Kara have each tried their hand at stitching cloth using a real needle and thread. They have [...]
Posted in Caravan, Family on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The girls are continuing to enjoy our weekly Caravan meetings. We are currently working on the Art merit badge. Last night we used food coloring in water to experiment with mixing colors. Such a simple activity always brings about a “wow” response!
The highlights of our meetings remain the cooking sessions. Last night we made the [...]
Posted in Caravan, Homeschool, Uncategorized on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are continuing to enjoy our weekly Caravan meetings. The girls have now completed the requirements for their rank pin, the “I Believe” badge, the Personal Care merit badge, and the Sports/Fitness merit badge. We began the safety merit badge today by discussing safety rules for electricity, fire and poisons.
All of the kids love participating [...]
Posted in Caravan, Family on September 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This afternoon the girls received two awards in Caravan: their Hunter rank pins and the Personal Care merit badge. We have really been enjoying Caravan–the lessons are so easy to plan and have fun activities. We have talked quite a bit about the food groups as part of the Personal Care unit, so we reviewed [...]
Posted in Abeka Academy, Caravan, Family, Homeschool, Homeschool Memoirs, Scouting on September 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Today’s Homeschool Memoirs assignment is entitled, “Something New.” For it, we are to describe something new that we are using for our homeschools this year.
As far as our homeschool curriculum is concerned, we are in our 7th year of using Abeka Academy DVD program 1. We have been very satisfied with this curriculum and have [...]
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