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The Road Less Traveled
Nov. 17, 2009
Fun with Photos
I am learning to use GIMP to play with my photos. This is fun! You can make your own clip art, modify photos, etc. I think that this will become a fine arts project for the boys, as they seem interested in learning it, as well.
Here are some of my creations. I placed the original photo before each altered one.
1) Baby Girl, bouncing away on her exersaucer. What would I do without this thing? It's fun, it's brightly colored, it's a great way for me to leave the room in peace... . I owe a huge debt of gratitude to whomever invented it!
 
2) The finished "volcanoes". They are not exactly what I had in mind, but at least the boys had fun making them.
3) Baby Girl again.
3) The boys, all dressed up for our church's Harvest Party.
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Sep. 29, 2009
Volcano Unit, part 1
We were going to wait until the end of our volcano unit to make the craft, but things don't always go as planned around here! The boys have been working very hard on their studies, so today was a "fun stuff" day.
I thought that we would be able to do these in one day. We are not used to working with home-made salt dough  . It all wanted to stay at the bottom of the plates. Soooooo, we made bases for the volcanoes this afternoon. We intended it to go this way. Really, we did. Um-hm.
I'll update when we have made more progress.
Here are the artists at work:
Speaking of messy, Baby Girl is learning to feed herself. I could have given her a bib, but I don't think that it would have made much of a difference! Besides, doesn't she look good in prunes  ?
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Sep. 4, 2009
More Fencing
Here are some more pics from our last fencing class!
Pre-class torture drills (I mean, warmups):
OK, the dog isn't a student, but isn't she cute?
You're not taking more pictures, are you, mom?
Yours truly on the right, back to practicing again:
These kids sure are agile!:
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Aug. 31, 2009
"First Day" of School
Tomorrow will begin our "official" school year. We will be continuing what we did through the summer, with a few other things tossed in throughout the year. My youngest son is starting kindergarten, so this is my first year teaching two, formally. He began lessons this past month or so, and is taking to them (praise God!) well. Phew! Of course, the baby likes to help  me teach. She is especially fond of emphasizing my points by animatedly slapping the boys' work pages and yelling or giggling! I love babies .
The boys are looking forward to finishing their volcanoes unit with a craft volcano. It promises to be messsssyyyyy! I'll post photos when they do this. I can't wait! They will be moving on to a bears unit after that.
My oldest is enjoying learning to write rhyming poetry. He gets downright silly sometimes! His little brother is learning it just by being in the same room when he practices. Isn't it great how that works out in homeschooling?
I'll post more about what we are doing at a later time.
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Aug. 27, 2009
Back to Blogging
I've been gone a while, but it's good to be back! While I was pregnant, I just wasn't up to maintaining my blog. Since I didn't like having a blog up with the same entry for centuries at a time, I deleted it.
Well, I had the baby and things are great! Now that the she will let me on the computer a little bit, I've started the blog back up. I've changed a couple of things about it, but it's still me!
Here are some photos of my new little princess:
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