The Diosa Dotada Endeavor

Yesterday we loaded up the whole crew and headed off to the Texas Renaissance Festival School Day.  Big Daddy worked Saturday, so he was able to take the weekday of his choice off and go with us, which was great because I wasn’t exactly sure how I was going to manage the entire Triad of […]

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At Home With Kris is hosting this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling.  Our Crazy Fun Art Extravaganza is featured, along with many other fantastic and informative contributions from a variety of other homeschoolers.

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Never underestimate the power of some precise paper folding.  Origami has become a fantastic activity for Kindy Girl, training her patience, attention to detail and fine motor skills in a productive and beautiful way.  She is delighted with the menagerie her new found passion is producing and I am delighted with the focus she is […]

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A few days ago, I found myself wondering if it was too soon for my thoughts to be drifting into next school year already but a quick post to one of my honeschooling listservs reassured me that it was not a premature impulse.  Plenty of us compulsive planner-type homeschooling moms are already doing just that.  […]

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We set ourselves up at the dining room table for our Crazy Fun Art Day Extravaganza with the twins strapped into their highchairs without the trays and the table covered in newsprint from a recently unpacked box of assorted junk.  I pulled two activities, one each from Art Adventures at Home Level One  and First […]

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Over breakfast this morning Master F has made an important scientific discovery.  Whereas he has been confident for some time about the abilities of his toys to fly through the air when launched by his very own arm, he had not made the connection that other categories of object might also make suitable projectiles for […]

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Today we went with our co-op to Brazos Bend State Park for a study of three Texas ecosystems; the prairie, the woods and the wetlands.  This was a much more satisfying animal adventure than the zoo for all of us because we had the privilage of observing animals spontaneously and in their natural habitats.  Kindy […]

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The rain last night produced a grubby park day adventure for all of us today.  The twins took turns trying munch the playground mulch and digging little holes in the mud with assorted sticks.  Kindy Girl suprised me by her spontaeous fling with being overtly social.  I expected that she would play with the one or […]

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Yesterday was Kindy Girl’s first Spanish class with our new homeschool group.  I don’t know why, but I am always amazed at how she gets started when we add something like this to our educational routine.  She barely got out of my lap the entire time, refused to make eye contact with the teacher and […]

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Hola and welcome to our family’s homeschooling venture where I hope to journal our experiences with this endeavor.  We hope you enjoy your visit as we grow and learn together. 

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