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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Green Hour #7
Yesterday was co-op day. We did Harmony Art’s Green Hour #7. Before class, my kids and I decided on our “focus areas.” Me, edible plants; Sam, birds; Jessie, bugs and amphibians. I made up 4 copies of each of our first cards (Spring Beauty, Pileated Woodpecker and Spring peeper) so that each child could have [...]
Posted in Green Hour, Homeschooling
Friday Freewrite: Going Green
What do you think someone your age can do to help reduce the amount of pollution in our environment? lets see… i can turn off lights when there’s no use of them on, i can use more alternate means of transportation like riding buses and riding bikes and walking and stuff of the sort. ask [...]
Posted in Friday Freewrite, Homeschooling
Garden Journal: Big discoveries
The sunflower seedling is very fuzzy on its plumule (eventually develops into the shoot). The clary sage true leaves are even fuzzier. The deer tounge lettuce is getting leggy (not enough sun light). Need to repot or direct sew when garden plot is ready. Green tomato seedlings are taller. The sweet pea seeds did not [...]
Posted in Garden Journal, Homeschooling
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Dandelion Madness with Tea
We had a rather hurried tea time but we had some very special treats with it. Fried dandelions and fried dandelion cakes. Recipe found here. I used sorghum rather than white sugar. The kids preferred the cake version. Me too. Unless the flower heads were fresh from the pan. Hard to have a relaxing tea [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Tea Time
Fiber Fun & Busy Day
Yesterday was an insanely busy day. I really, really try not to schedule so much. (house work and school work usually suffers not to mention everyone is generally cranky) Yesterday morning (7:45 am) the kids and I dropped off the Earth Day bags at Moser’s. Then drove out to Lamanana’s farm to help with alpaca [...]
Posted in Fiber Arts, Homeschooling
Green Hour #9
Today at the co-op I lead green hour challenge #9. Click here to go to be beginning of the photo Album. Since not all the kids pictured are mine, I’ve used pseudonyms on all. Many discoveries were made… fragrant dogwood, unusual flowers, mysteriously fizzy water. Most everyone settled right in and seemed to enjoy the [...]
Posted in Green Hour, Homeschooling
Tagged as: Green Hour, nature hour
The Night Is…
The Night Is a Big Black Cat by Clark, G. Orr The Night is a big black cat, The Moon is her topaz eye, The stars are the mice she hunts at night In the field of the sultry sky. ~~~~~~~ We’ve been diligently doing our poetry unit study from Homeschool Share along with tea [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Poetry
Recovering
My cough seems to be going away finally. Huzzah! ‘Course now I’ve coughed out my back and pulled a groan (groin) muscle. Sheesh! Can something else fall apart please…? So much happened this week, much of it not fun, that I don’t know where to start. Perhaps I should take that as a sign not [...]
Posted in Life
Friday Freewrite: Possession
What is your most indispensable possession and why? my most indispensable possession………. hmm…………….. dunno…… my dog would be! he can be as sweet as an ice cream or as disrupting as heck itself; he’s a good dog to snuggle with, especially in a chair, or on my bed……… haaaaaaaahhhh…….. hm? oh, sorry…… he has learned [...]
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Garden Journal: Sprouting Continues
the majoram plants have grown really well, their true leaves are starting to become noticeable; the large sunflower was attacked by the cat and sadly didn’t make it; the sage is sprouting with what we believe to be a misplaced deer tongue; the second sunflower is finally growing; and the rest of the deer tongue [...]
Posted in Garden Journal, Homeschooling