Here is the Naturalist after his third beekeeping class with his friend Joseph. The Naturalist loved learning about bees. We loved hanging out on the farm during class. In the spring class, we saw baby pigs only a couple hours old. They still had their umbilical cords!
Isn’t this photo adorable? Here we are inside the Santa Maria, listening to a presentation about early maritime medicine. This man gave explicit details about amputation and other gory facts, and he had plenty of tools and implements to help us visualize his descriptions. The Naturalist and The Dancer were a little disturbed by this presentation. They often hold hands when one or both of them need comfort.
Our friend Jocelyn just moved to a farm only a couple of miles from our house. My kids love nothing better than to visit her farm, gather eggs, and observe the animals. In fact, The Naturalist has fallen in love with her chickens. He picks them up and begs me to buy chickens for our backyard.
Here they are, right before we began trick or treating. We had such amazing weather! We haven’t seen trick or treating weather this nice since we left Houston.
The Naturalist joined Cub Scouts this year, and he absolutely loves it. He loves the meetings, the events, the uniform, the whole thing. Doesn’t he look adorable in his uniform?
Here are a couple of pictures of him during the rain gutter regatta. He won first prize for his den.
In November, he will get his first badge: The bobcat badge. He is so excited!
Catholic Vote is such a great organization. I loved their first video about Obama, which came out last fall (but most of the major media outlets refused to air it). It was so positive and so beautifully done.
Now, they have a new video, all about health care reform. It is called “Big Government Health Care PSA.” It is hilarious. Check it out at:
Fri, Sep 25, 2009 (HealthDay News) — Unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and other types of toxins have been found in drinking water at thousands of schools across the United States over the last decade, according to an analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data by the Associated Press.
Toxic contamination of drinking water is most common in schools with wells, which account for up to 11 percent of the 132,500 schools in the country. About 20 percent of schools with their own water supply violated the Safe Drinking Water Act in the past decade.
The number of violations increased over that time because of stricter standards for such contaminants as arsenic and some disinfectants, the EPA told the AP. The EPA doesn’t have the power to require drinking water testing for all schools.
“It’s an outrage,” Marc Edwards, an engineer at Virginia Tech who has been honored for his work on water quality, told the AP. “If a landlord doesn’t tell a tenant about lead paint in an apartment, he can go to jail. But we have no system to make people follow the rules to keep school children safe?” – HealthDay News
Welcome! We are a Catholic family embarking upon our third year of homeschooling.
We have three children: The Naturalist, a seven year old boy who loves nature; The Dancer, a bubbly five year old girl; and Smiles, a three year old who never stops smiling.
While public schools can attempt to have "No Child Left Behind", homeschooling allows our children's souls to be educated as well. We live in one of the best school districts in our state, but yet we homeschool.
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The Naturalist joined Cub Scouts this year, and he absolutely loves it. He loves the meetings, the events, the uniform, the whole thing. Doesn’t he look adorable in his uniform?
