My mom has been lamenting how fast the kids are growing up and had the opportunity to take the summer (July and August) off this year. She’s usually a preschool teacher by school year and a nanny by summer. She really wanted to spend time with her “grands” (as she calls them) creating memories this...
Native American Lesson: Corn Cakes
I got most of our activities from The World of North American Indians (Passport to the Past). I love the simple instructions that also include pictures. I let PJ page through the book and choose our first project. He loves being in the kitchen so he chose to make corn cakes (found on page 24)....
Accidental Spring Onions
So we planted baby onions last fall. The didn’t do much in our hard clay and in the cold weather. We just left them and were a little surprised this spring to see that they survived the winter. Since we re-designed the garden this year into raised beds, we moved them in hopes that the...
Native American Lesson: Books
This is a collection of books we found particularly helpful as we studied Native Americans. We were able to find all of them except the coloring book at the library. If you can’t find these particular ones at your library, feel free to buy them from the widget or look for other age-appropriate books. Amazon.com...
{#33} All agencies are not created equal
Now that we’re a couple months into our second adoption process, I can say that not all agencies are created equal. In our case, I can’t qualify one as better than the other…yet. They’re just different. Our first agency has been around for 60 plus years. They’ve been doing international adoptions for over 30 years....
Native American Lessons: Overview
Classical Conversations will be moving into Cycle 3 this fall which means we’ll be covering U.S. Geography and U.S. History in Social Studies. Because the memory work starts with Columbus, I decided to cover Native Americans this summer with the kids since they are a large part of our history. I think it’s funny that...
{#32} Know a Notary
*****PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT***** There is a giveaway going on until midnight. Don’t forget to enter. ******************************************* You’d think since we’ve adopted before that we wouldn’t be daunted by our second paper chase, right? Wrong. Korea’s process is drastically different than most other international programs because the family does not adopt in-country. Instead the trip is pretty...