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A New Year
Although January 1st usually gets credited with New Year’s Resolutions, isn’t it really at the end of August, as you gather school supplies gearing up to return to your normally scheduled activities that you make…
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Wooden Eggs and Cups
These colorful eggs and cups are wonderful and safe for the smallest hands. Wee ones will enjoy placing the eggs in the cups encouraging agility, dexterity and small muscle development. As babies turn into toddlers they will begin matching the colors. The eggs and…
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Puddles and Ponds Activity Guide
Puddles and Ponds Activity Guide Click here for the Puddles and Ponds Schedule and Book List. The science experiments can be found in Nature in a Nutshell or One Small Square Pond. Use Can You…
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Harvest Time Week Six: Johnny Appleseed
This time of year, of course brings us to the cider mill… or I should say mills. I believe Johnny Appleseed would be pleased to find the acres of orchards in our community. We’ve already…
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Harvest Unit Week Two – Beatrice’s Goat
Butter Battle 2010 The Boy is 2 and 0 going up against the Kitchen Aid in the Butter Battle. For Week Two of the Harvest Unit our weekly activity was making fresh, homemade butter. We…
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Harvest Time Week One – Tops and Bottoms
Our Week with Tops and Bottoms Here are some highlights from our week with Tops and Bottoms. It has been hot and hardly fall-like this past week but everyone was excited to get started. Pixie…
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Harvest Time Preschool/Kindergarten Curriculum
The full updated version is now available through MagCloud. The original version with updated Weekly Schedule and Craft List is available below. Simple Seasons Homeschool Companion Guides: Harvest Time Second Edition Harvest Time is a…
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Nature Hike – Lots of Critters
We took advantage of a break in the rain clouds this weekend and went on a Nature Hike. Lots of critters greeted us along the way.
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Butterfly Garden Field Trip
Our Homeschool Playgroup went on a field trip to the 4H Butterfly Gardens just after Easter. The presentation itself was a little below the group… there wasn’t a question the lady asked that at least…
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Roman Gladiator Shield
Bug decided that he really wanted to make a Roman Gladiator Shield. I cut out cardboard rectangles for the kids. They then looked at images of roman shields and painted their shields. After the shields…
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Egypt Journal Pages
Here are a few of Bug’s Journal Pages on Ancient Egypt. I keep finding more and more drawings like these all over the house. In some he has devised elaborate pyramid tomb raider defenses… mazes…
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In the Land of the Pharaohs
Bug, Fairy and Pixie are learning about Ancient Egypt. When they needed a pyramid, and needed one fast, we got out the Big Bucket-O-Legos and started building. After about an hour, the five of us……
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Autumn Tree Nature Study
We took advantage of a beautiful afternoon yesterday and completed our Fall Tree Nature Study. We haven’t be doing any of the Handbook of Nature Study Blog Challenges since the spring and we had a…
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Apple Prints
We spent the morning at Gammy’s yesterday and took advantage of her seemingly endless supply of art materials (this time rummaging through her entire box of stamp pads). We made our apple prints to go…
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Tracks in the Mud
For Harvest Time Week Three our focus was on tractors/farm machines and the book Rusty, Trusty Tractor. To go along with this theme, our art project was Tracks in the Mud. It was a beautiful…
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First Day of School 2008
Opening their new school year sketch books that they will use for nature studies and as a journal for their narrations and illustrations. Decorating their new sketch books with stickers. Here are just a few…
Patterns & Crafts
