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| 12 Nov 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Welcome to my mind:-) This is where I will attempt to describe some of the things that happen in our homeschooling lifestyle. That's really what it is you see - a lifestyle. Parts are more structured out of necessity (writing, some math), but much is simply a natural extension of loving life and learning. Today is a lazy pajama day, which also seems necessary once in a while:-) Two kids are officially sick and others are showing signs of being off-kilter, so the day calls for plenty of PBS, computer games and homemade soup:-) Sequoia cooked cracked wheat cereal for breakfast and soup is simmering for lunch - though Kaisa only wants the saltines. Keegan is turning a piece of Apricot wood into a wizard's wand. Baby Kira is down for a nap. Maybe I can figure out a couple of webpages while there is no one in my lap:-) |
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| 13 Nov 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Keegan watched an excellent program this morning called Treehouse Detectives which explored our water cycles as the main-character kids were concerned about water shortages and weather patterns affecting the success of the car wash they had planned. They mentioned what I know as "water witching" with a divining rod, but didn't say if a specific type of wood is used -- need to research that more as Keegan was facinated and asking if "that's really true?" Wish I was better at web searches. Did find a site with a variety of time zone maps - Nice time of year to talk about that:-) Just got a call that Keegan's piano lesson is canceled today - Jen is sick. That's ok - give a bit more time to run a couple of errnads which Keegan will assist with, while girls are at Tracy's. He's doing well with piano, but as usual it's too easy for him - he needs reason to put forth more effort. She's a great teacher, very positively reinforcing. I've broken up his practice time to twice a day for shorter times, instead of a long half hour to get bored with. Gotta run do those errands. Kids have been cleaning up. |
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| Interested in the reasons we homeschool?? Many of the answers can be found at HomeschoolUtah or it's sister site LDS-HEA as well as many other websites and articles written by both homschooling parents and children. When I figure out a way to cut and paste in this program, I will add some things I have written in my discussion groups. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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