Month: December 2012
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Yearly Wrap Up – Cancer Crept In
This is my last weekly wrap up and in fact will be my yearly wrap up for 2012. I intend to take a blogging break until after Christmas. As I look back on the year I see probably my hardest year yet. God is good though, for He turned my weakness into a strength I didn’t know […]
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Stained Glass Window Activities
Most of our art study this year is going to be centered around particular artists who lived during the Middle Ages. However there are a few one-off topics I’d like to cover – illuminated manuscripts being one and stained glass windows being another. So I decided now was a good time to look at the stained glass windows, especially […]
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Looking Back – Astronomy Presentation
I’m doing a series called looking back, documenting learning the children and I did together prior to me blogging. To be honest it’s more for my sake than anyone else’s.  Blogging is like having a scrap-book, but takes about a quarter of the time to stay up to date. My latest offering is astronomy. I’m not blogging […]
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How to Make an Ancient Greece Game Board to Reinforce Learning
I gave you a peek of our board game made during our fun week and thought I’d do a post on how I made it. The children and I had discussed our ideas and all knew vaguely what it was we were aiming for. The first thing I did, at the beginning of the week, was […]