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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - OH NO!--and pumpkins
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I just realized my subscription to TOS has run out. Oh, I hope it isn't too late to order and get the fall magazine.
For the last few years our homeschool group has taken a field trip to a christmas tree farm to pick pumpkins. It is a great place, with a hay Mayflower, two sheds to learn about barn owls and spiders, a hay/tractor ride through the farm, a catapult with a pumpkin toss, gourd picking, pumpkin picking, broom making, and lots of fun. It is a wonderful time learning about trees and farms and all the fun harvest stuff with no emphasis on Halloween. It is perfect for us. This year we are not going. You see, we don't have enough people in our group. There needs to be 30 people paying to total $150.00. Our group is not that big, so it ends up costing us quite a lot. It is a bummer and I am disappointed. I really look foward to this time. There is another farm our family goes to but it has decided to add a lot of Halloween decor and my kids really don't like it and neither do I. Hubby is home on Friday for a work holiday and so we promised the kids we would get pumpkins, and since we have not ever carved pumpkins with them we promised to do it this year. Does anyone have the pumpkin parable story for carving a pumpkin? I would love to use that when we do.
On another note, school is going well. I am so pleased. I am really enjoying it too. The girls are learning a ton and we haven't missed a day yet. I have been learning to balance the importance of getting assignments done with giving time to complete a project before moving on. Pixie is slow. Really. She is very smart, but moves at a snails pace. It doesn't do to rush her. It gets her upset and me too. I really need to allow her the time to process and finish what she is doing. We do history first thing after our character learning. The girls get a coloring sheet while I read. She is never finished by the time I finish reading. I allow her the time to work at her pace (as long as she is working). I still fight internally with wanting to get school done, even though I am much better than I used to be. This week history has included some personal reading of historical fiction, some narration, drawing a picture, labeling the picture and posting it on a board. Even though she didn't get some of her other work done, she was allowed time to work on this project. It turned out beautifully. She drew two men wrestling (an ancient olympic sport) as well as a horse and chariot. She also wrote her name using the Greek alphabet. She is preparing this for our once a month literary group. I will write more on that later. Her drawings are completely freehand however, she did look at a picture in a book for the horse and chariot. This is a little bragging moment. You don't mind do you?
Susan
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - Oh I love seeing these! |
| Posted by Mamma1420 |
What a blessing to be able to have a virtual online homeschool support group- we get to show off our children and their work and discuss things we'd probably never get around to saying at an actual homeschool group!
I'm still in the learning process about carving pumpkins- I did one too early last year and ended up with a moldy mess!
Enjoy Your Blessings
Jessica |
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by drewsfamilytx |
What a great poster! Talent definitely runs in the family! :-)
Glad your lessons are going well. I'm in the mood to take the day off...but not sure yet what we'd do. I really just want to go back to bed!
Speaking of pumpkins and such, there is a neat farm about an hour away that has a cornfield maze and other fun stuff. But they have super-dinky-little pumpkins... I think we're going to Old MacDonald's Farm next weekend when my sisters come to visit. Hope you find a suitable place for some fall festivities!
Love,
Marsha |
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by Rebeca |
Great picture! Does she know what her name means in Greek? Alethea is a Greek word also that means truth- just a wee bit of trivia for your Greek scholars!
It was great to be there Monday night- thanks again for inviting me!
Rebeca |
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by jailkmess |
Which farm are you talking about? I had plans with another group of moms to go to a Pumpkin Patch, but have heard that they have a lot of Halloween themes/decorations, so I was thinking of backing out. Maybe I could convince them to join with your group and we could go to the "good" farm. How many people would you need and is $150 the cost to be split between everybody?
Also, I would LOVE to be a part of your HOPE group. Faye had mentioned it and it sounds wonderful! Thanks for the invite!
Amy |
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by nsremom |
I love your daughters artwork! No bragging on your part....just stating the facts, mam!
The wrestling picture made me laugh. Kickboxing perhaps? Dirty wrestlers perhaps? That foot in the groin trick looks painful. :) |
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by drewsfamilytx |
I can't remember if I replied already or not...
But the aggregator that I signed on with was through Yahoo...it's a piece of junk. The only "new" news that has been updated in the PAST 3 DAYS are the Yahoo links/stories. Foxnews and all the blogs still show nothing new...very frustrating, especially after I went through all the trouble of cutting and pasting the RSS links of all of my friends!
Let me know if you find one that's good... Hmmm... maybe I should ask Gena...
Marsha |
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by chickadee |
loved that! it looks great.
i do have a pumpkin carving thing but i'll have to find it. they do it every year on wednesday night at our church. i'll look into it. |
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