A Simple Kind of Life

CSA Week 16

Tomatoes!!

Dr. Jack Newman needs help!!

If anyone has any good funding ideas please direct them to Dr. Jack Newman. His work with nursing moms and babies is simply irreplaceable.

http://www.drjacknewman.com/

October is Attachment Parenting Month

http://apmonth.attachmentparenting.org/

The ABCs Of Home Schooling

Today’s Model Of Personal Education Is Not Your Grandmother’s Home Schooling

Pony Rides

well it’s been two weeks since I took the kids on pony rides at Maybury. I had no idea what an effect it would have on the kids! I do a lot of things, we go a lot of places, but you never know what will really sink in. What they will really remember.
Skye has not stopped talking about it. She tells everyone about it. The horse that looked like a cow (she had spots). Me go around and around and around. Me wear helmet. Me big girl.
Carter too. Yesterday he decided he held the ‘horn’ of the saddle. And if you push it it beeps, you want to know what sound it makes? Neigh. I love doing things with these kids. I love that we can!
Now I just need to find out where to get this girl some pony riding lessons oh, that’s right. No classes for Skye till she’s 3. Next summer….

Homeschool Week 1; Blueberries for Sal and other stuff

This was a Before Five in a Row title, so a bit on the younger side for Carter but perfect for Skye. We had lots of fun with it! The idea is that you read the book everyday for 5 days and take a different lesson from it everyday. This book is about Sal and her mother who are picking blueberries to can for the winter, of course Sal is eating more than she’s saving. On the other side of Blueberry Hill Little Bear and his mother are eating blueberries to store up for the winter. Sal and Little Bear get a bit turned around and mix themselves up with each other moms! It’s a very cute book!

I’m not going to tell what exactly we did everyday. I’m sure the FIAR folks wouldn’t like that. They would rather you buy the book Here is a basic run down of what we did and extra curricular as well.
Monday

Stamping blueberries (with wine cork and ink pad)


Tuesday






Wednesday


Thursday (Daddy homeschools for Mommy on her birthday!)

coloring in shades of blue

Classification

Matching lower and uppercase letters

Friday

Found Maine!

Greenfield Village (Macy’s 2nd Monday Theme School days)
Le Leche meeting Picnic following
Open Gym
Surviving in the Wild (Belle Isle HS program where we learn how to gather water and food. Carter and Skye ate bugs!)
Library
Carter eats a bug

I get lots of ideas from these two sites

http://www.fiarhq.com/~gbprnhrz/forum/index.php

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/

and of course the The book

cool site

CSA Week 15

hmmm…

Friends

thinking of my friend Shannon today and everyday. Here is Carter and her little girl, Gwen. Love to you Shannon. Just thinking of the day we had so much fun at the Village.