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Melissa | August 20, 2010
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been purposefully leaving the light on outside by the door to our schoolroom. It has been SO much fun to go down to school in the morning and first thing check the wall outside by the door for moths. It’s like a little treasure hunt each morning to [...]
Melissa | August 18, 2010
We focus on art on Wednesdays each week. This week we’ve learned a little more about Michelangelo. So today my daughter had a wonderful time creating a fresco painting, which Michelangelo was known for. This was a very fun project and I plan to try doing some different things with plaster. I have some ideas [...]
Melissa | August 14, 2010
We finished up our butterfly and moth focus this week in school. With my youngest (Kindergartner) I’ve concentrated on the very basics of these wonderful creatures. And one concept we’ve learned about was symmetry. Aside from bringing up the word “symmetry” to her as often as possible during the past two weeks, the three main [...]
Melissa | August 11, 2010
Thank you to all my readers who nominated me for the 2010 Top Homeschool Blog Award. This award was given to 30 blogs who exuded overall brilliance in their content! Wow! Thank you!
Melissa | August 9, 2010
As always when we start paying more attention to something in nature, God starts blessing us with wonderful opportunities to see it. As I said before we are learning more about butterflies and moths this first couple weeks of school. Yesterday my oldest daughter came running excitedly through the front door declaring that we were [...]
Melissa | August 7, 2010
“Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.” ~Jeffrey Glassberg The soaring heat and humidity of August makes it an excellent time to observe butterflies in nature. In fact, for this first structured week of school, I have focused on butterflies [...]
