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Laguna Coast Wilderness Park is full of blooms and ticks at this time of year. Here’s a list of what I can remember seeing in bloom today: White Sage Black Sage Bush Mallow Wild Grape California Everlasting Chalk Dudleya Night Shade Caterpillar Phacelia Jimson Weed Mexican Elderberry California Sunflower (Encelia) There were other yellow, telegraph […]

A while back our friend from South Africa invited us for tea. What a pleasant surprise when we arrived to find fresh scones, or biscuits as she called them, homemade cream, jam, and other treats all arranged beautifully on a table with tea cups and saucers – each with a different floral pattern – little

It’s a little funny that I’m writing about the benefits of gardening, seeing how I’m happy if my plants survive the season, my composting hasn’t decomposed at all lately, all my red worms fled their Rubbermaid habitat, and I’m occasionally in danger of getting kicked out of my community garden plot. In order to not

This school year, my nature group tried our first attempt at foreign language plays. It has always seemed out of the ordinary to me that of us ten or so moms, seven different languages are spoken or being studied. One mom is fluent in Japanese, another in Afrikaans, one in Armenian, and one is fluent

A discussion came up at our monthly meeting about handicrafts and their relevance today and I thought I’d post a continuation here to add my thoughts and also for anyone else to do the same. In today’s technologically driven world, are handicrafts, like wood-working or knitting, still relevant? Wouldn’t it serve our children better to

Here are #3 and 4 and last month’s AO folk song 🙂 Why do we teach folk songs? What is the purpose? Is it to open up a window into the life of another in a distant time and place? Is it to study the music of the common folk and its impact in their

California private homeschoolers it’s time to file your annual affidavit. The deadline is October 15th. You’ll find detailed instructions and a link to the form here: http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/ca/affidavit/AffidavitInstructions.asp

One of the concerns I hear a lot when it comes to homeschooling is the fear of their child being socially awkward. They will dress weird, not know how to hold a conversation won’t be street smart and not know how to interact amongst friends. Here are some of my thoughts on the issue: Being

Here’s my post for pictures I’ve been meaning to share, but don’t feel like writing an entire post about. We had Robin Hood ‘play’ at the end of the year last year… We went to see Much Ado About Nothing in the park… We went to visit Johnna and watched a little tiny tug boat

Because I don’t already have enough to do, Brandi @ Afterthoughts tagged me on a Homeschool Meme! ;-p I am honored. Really. And I did take her ‘Don’t fail me people!’ to heart. Because not only do I really enjoy Brandi’s posts and benefit from them, I am amazed at the sheer volume of consecutive