Tag: homeschooling

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Photos-“Black Swallowtail Butterflies”

The butterflies finally came out!! Our two plump parsley caterpillars we caughton our carrots emerged from their chrysalises. Isn’t she pretty? It’s amazing to me that the only markings that remained from her caterpillar costume were the yellow spots on her body. The first one hatched when we weren’t paying attention, so we checked […]

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Pioneer Farms

    We had a great time visiting Pioneer Farms yesterday.  Last week was only our first week back at “school” and I was already hankerin’ to get out of the house and see something new!  The folks out there have done a terrific job of setting up a little town and surrounding […]

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Photographic Commentary on School

I was given an assignment in photo class called “windows and mirrors”.  The challenge was to take some pictures that either conveyed the way I view the world around me or that were self-reflective.  Unable to capture what I wanted in one single picture, I wound up singling out 5 photographs that, when viewed one after […]

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New Comrades

We headed out to the local library today.  Our home library does not contain a set of encyclopedias, so we were forced to pursue public resources for some of our school work this week. My 7th grader also needed a book on market bubbles.  More on that later. As we entered […]