When Bar­bara announced that there would be a new autumn series, I got so excited.  I waited… and waited… and finally, it was announced. Cat­tails!  Cat­tails? Um, what in the world are cat­tails? Surely, this is some­thing famil­iar only those on the east or west coast, or any­where other than Bayou Coun­try. I sighed quietly […]

This week was a 1/2 day school week.  We have a two-day assem­bly this week­end, and I always like to sew new things for the girls and I to wear.  I made myself a skirt and shirt (that’s a first for me!) and I made a skirt and dress for Face.  Flower Picker was in […]

Hey — get your hands in the air — Queen is rockin’! Tee hee, ok, so it was totally pun-y, but I think I got the mes­sage across!  Week 5 is now over.  We had an inter­est­ing week, to say the least. Our week started with our Theo­cratic Study. We read about some of our fellow […]

Oh, this week was excit­ing! We started learn­ing about Pyotr Tchaikovsky. He had an inter­est­ing life.  His music is sim­ply beau­ti­ful. I’m a fan of the Romeo & Juliet Fan­tasy Over­ture. Our Art study was on Ambro­sius Boss­chaert. I don’t think the kids enjoyed his art as much as they did the pre­vi­ous artists, though. […]

I read ahead to the next chal­lenge on the Hand­book of Nature Study blog, and it said to choose a topic that we could stick with for 6–8 weeks. I think, given our fas­ci­na­tion with the T-shirt bug, that we’d devote our 6–8 weeks to bugs! I had made men­tion of our mys­tery guest last night […]