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7 October 2013 A la BibliothÃ¨que

Oct 8, 2013

Looks like we were about to have a board room meeting, but no, it’s a new year for French Club, now meeting weekly at the downtown library. It’s looks so calm here, doesn’t it? I was trop occupÃ©e to take any pictures of the ensuing mayhem.

1 October 2013 Deep in Discussion

Oct 2, 2013

At Boxerwood Nature Center in Lexington, VA there is a wooden stage on the edge of the woods. There’s also a giant chair in the meadow, a piano in a field of grass, and a large wooden chess board next to a clay Ogre head vomiting out straw, but at this particular moment the kids were drawn to the stage to put on an …

24 September 2013 Mini Pond Ecosystems

Sep 25, 2013

Today was the final day of the Lakes, Ponds and Rivers class at the Green Adventure Project. The kids had two challenges today: 1) make a water filter out of ordinary household materials and filter dirty pond water, and 2) construct a dam in the stream. Sam’s favorite thing about the class was that the teachers let the …

19 September 2013 Into the Labyrinth

Sep 20, 2013

No Minotaurs were spotted, thankfully.

17 September 2013 A Gaggle of Girls

Sep 18, 2013

At homeschool park day this afternoon.

12 September 2013 Not-Back-to-School Picnic

Sep 13, 2013

7 September 2013 Challah

Sep 8, 2013

Sam likes to eat history. Between reading about the Jewish diaspora in The Story of the World and Rosh Hashanah this week, it seemed like a good time to bake challah bread. The braiding was trickier than I thought it would be and the proportions in the recipe (from one of Sam’s library books, naturally) were waaay off. …

3 September 2013 Volcano in the Sand

Sep 3, 2013

Last lake day for our homeschool group this year. Summer has slipped away as quickly as the sand volcano the kids made at Sherando today.

20 August 2013 Snail Habitat

Aug 21, 2013

Sam spent nearly the entire afternoon with the homeschool group at Mint Springs building a snail habitat in the sand for the numerous snails hanging out in the water. This is just one part of it–Sam tells me it was a “private island.” Apparently there were also two orphanages, a hotel and a morgue. Everything a snail …

7 August 2013 Truthfulness

Aug 8, 2013

We’re recently back from France so of course Sam is now obsessed with Chinese. It’s my fault. While we were in France I asked her what other languages she might like to learn. Chinese came up. So this week we started doing Play & Learn Chinese with Mei Mei, a dvd we got from the library. We also are using some free …