tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486072027469357432024-03-06T00:02:43.510-08:00Santa Barbara Natural MamaA resource for mamas and mamas-to-be who want to make healthy, informed choices for their babies and children.Isla Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153843469311055947noreply@blogger.comBlogger200125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48607202746935743.post-14147717463658159122015-07-17T17:19:00.000-07:002015-07-25T11:57:37.617-07:00Goodbye and Hello!Having three little ones is the most wonderful blessing -AND- also I am feeling busier and busier lately. Life is too full, kids are too fun, and time is too precious to keep up a blog, even just once a month. <br />
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If you are still interested in following our adventures, and getting ideas for recipes to make and crafts to do with your wee ones, please <a href="https://instagram.com/jupiters_keeper/">follow my instagram account: Jupiters_Keeper</a>. I've been posting our shenanigans there and will be documenting our adventures with our co-op pre-school, StarSeeds, which my mama friend and I are co-creating. Our first day was all about blackberries: blackberry stories and circle time, blackberry songs, blackberry picking, blackberry muffin cooking, blackberry leaf sun tea, blackberry shrub making, blackberry silk dyeing... oh, and lots of free play!<br />
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I'm going to leave the blog up. I relied so heavily on other mamas' blogs for my homeschooling inspirations that I thought I should leave everything online in case anyone finds anything in it handy. All the best to you, dear mamas. Keep changing the world one baby at a time. And maybe I will see you on planet instagram. Stop by, say "hi!"<br />
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Isla Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153843469311055947noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48607202746935743.post-86051701870372988092015-07-01T21:44:00.000-07:002015-07-01T21:44:28.030-07:00June LessonsSince we will be making the transition to public school for first grade, I am going to continue homeschooling throughout the summer, in a very relaxed and fluid way. The emphasis is still our relationship to Nature, plenty of imaginative play, and following their lead:<br />
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And we had an epic, kid-centered camping trip to Wheeler Gorge. There were 20 kids! They are all dear friends and we've known almost all of them since they were born. There were only 10 mamas and 1 papa, so we were quite outnumbered, in the best way. The kids played in the creek, made swords out of sticks and yarn, roasted marshmallows, rode bikes, and had so much fun.<br />
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We have been spending lots of time in our garden, harvesting flowers, food, medicine, coffee, nuts and seeds, and making flower mandalas and fairy houses:<br />
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Also, the white nectarine tree in our backyard (which was a gift from two of my dear mama friends to celebrate the birth of Lyra) had so much fruit! We made pie and jam, both with vanilla bean and Maker's Mark, and sent every visitor away with a bagful of fruit. The other jam in the picture is blueberry, which we made after our second trip out to the blueberry fields:<br />
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Solstice was sweet and mellow. We celebrated with sun snacks, sun-feather headdresses, and a Solstice Feast for dinner, passing up the parade downtown this year:<br />
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So, in between all our fun I am squeezing some academics. Which, of course, are also fun. Isla is picking out her own books from the library to read, and ends up writing a good amount on her own, without any prodding from me. For math the girls are still loving the game "Shut the Box":<br />
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And they are big fans of our interactive puppet shows where they get to use manipulatives. One example of our puppet shows - "The cloud princesses got up early in the morning, just as the sun was making the walls of their bedroom rosy pink. They ran down the stairs and outside, then over to the stables where their wind ponies were waiting. 'What shall we do today?' asked the wind ponies. 'Let's go down to the forest!' the sisters laughed. They hopped on the backs of their ponies and zoomed down, down to the forest floor. Once they landed, they noticed some wild strawberries (I had scattered red and pink math jewels on our quilt) and decided to gather them. 'Adira, you pick the pink berries and I'll get the red ones,' Phaedra said. The girls put them on their silk cloth to see how many they had. Phaedra counted hers first. (Isla counts hers and finds she has six.) Then Adira counted hers. (Lyra finds she also has six.) 'Let's have a picnic in the forest!' The sisters run into the forest, find a nice clearing and sit down. But just as they are about to bite into the first berries, they hear a rustling in the trees. 'I'm so hungry!' says a little squirrel. 'Oh, come sit with us and you may share!' the girls say. They divide the berries up evenly between the three of them. Just when the three friends are about to eat, they hear a swishing above their heads. 'Oh how hungry I am!' cries a little bird. 'Come, sit and eat some berries with us!' call the girls. But now they have to divide up the berries again, being sure to be fair..." <br />
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I think you get the idea? More friends come and berries are lost and found and lots of math happens. The girls had the best time. They did eventually get to eat the berries (swap the jewels out for strawberries or raspberries if you can) and then the princesses go home to their castle in the clouds.<br />
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We are staying with our block on the Chumash, and have been reading a few books. Pictured are the ones I found on Amazon, but we also got some really great ones at the Natural History Museum:<br />
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We started listening to the unabridged version of "The Island of the Blue Dolphins" on tape in the car, and it has inspired some play:<br />
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The girls' grandfather is going to teach them how to make baskets out of the tulle that the Chumash used, and which grows out back, and line them with pitch. In the fall I hope to make acorn cakes with them. We have definitely waved goodbye to our school year rhythm in favor of the laid-back, spontaneous summertime rhythm, and it's working for now. I am starting to at least think about what our rhythm will be in the fall, since keeping any kind of predictable schedule goes against my nature and takes a Herculean effort. My heart aches a little that we can't send the girls to Waldorf, but I'm hoping we can co-create something nourishing for them at their new schools next year, and I know that the most important piece is harmony in the home, which we are totally nailing at the moment. ;)Isla Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153843469311055947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48607202746935743.post-22136957454562957092015-06-25T16:56:00.000-07:002015-06-25T16:56:48.517-07:00Graduation!We had a special graduation ceremony for the girls at the end of last month. I felt it was important to honor the school year we had together, and all of the progress the girls made. A week beforehand I sent out a special invitation to the grandparents, aunties and uncles. The day of the event I set our table up with some examples of the projects and main lesson books the girls had completed. Bear with me - I did not take many photos of this event, as it was much more important for me to be completely present:<br />
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Then the three of us made cupcake treats. We used violets and pansies to create a purple dye for the cakes and the frosting. First we filled a small jar with the dried flowers we had picked and dehydrated. Then we filled the jar with boiling water, covered it, and let it steep. After straining out the flowers we had a deep purple dye. It turned the cakes an unintended but cool greenish color, and the frosting became a beautiful lavender. We decorated them with gluten-free edible butterflies purchased on etsy, and sprigs of lavender:<br />
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When the guests arrived they had some time to peruse the work that was set up on the table. Once everyone was here we directed our guests to the playroom, where I had set up a slideshow. At 15 minutes, it might have been a tad long, but the girls were so proud and everyone seemed interested in seeing all the photos of their year. After the slideshow we moved to the living room, where the girls and I demonstrated a sample of "Circle Time" with songs, movement and rhymes. Then Isla played a song on her dulcimer and glockenspiel and Lyra did a puppet show. Then it was time for the ceremony. I lit a candle and took Isla to a special chair I had set up. I put a silk on her as a cape, and the wool crown I made for her. Then I spoke to her about how proud I was of her - of her big, generous heart, of how much she has grown, of her kindness and helpfulness, and of all the new, exciting things she was learning. Then I took her by the hand and led her to the bridge (our rocker board), and said, "Congratulations Isla, you are now ready for first grade!" Then she crossed the bridge on her own, to where I was waiting for her on the other side. I then presented her with her gifts: a copper ball, similar to my eurythmy balls she has been coveting, and a medicine pouch with a necklace inside. Then she sat down and I did a similar ceremony for Lyra. At the end, everyone came outside and we served dinner, with fairy cakes for dessert!<br />
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This month also marked the beginning of our learning about the Chumash. We read a book called "Badger Claws of Ojai" about a young Chumash boy who grew up in Ojai but whose Aunt and Uncle lived by the sea, probably in Carpinteria.<br />
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Here are the pictures the girls drew of young Badger Claws.<br />
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The gist of the story is that a young Chumash boy named Badger Claws is eager to become a brave. He lives with his grandmother because his parents have died. He spies on the sweat lodge ceremony by hiding behind a boulder, but he is caught by the Shaman. This lands Badger Claws in trouble because only the men of the village are allowed to participate in the ceremony. It is decided that Badger Claws will have to move to the sea to live with his aunt and uncle, unless he can prove that he is a man by living out on his own for three moons. He accepts this challenge and lives on his own out in the mountains along the Sespe (Yes! Just where we were backpacking!). He makes his own fire, catches and finds his own food, and builds himself a shelter. He makes friends with the animals around him, including an orphaned raccoon and a doe and her fawn. When the shaman returns three moons later, he is impressed with Badger Claws but tells him there is more to the challenge: Badger Claws will have to prove he can take care of his village by bringing his people big game and by bringing them another gift that will help them. I won't spoil the ending, but I highly recommend the book, especially if you live in the area.<br />
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Another book we are reading this month is "Song of the Seven Herbs":<br />
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The big excitement at our house was the house finch nest that hung in my gardening bag right outside our front door. We got to watch the whole process, from hatchlings to fledglings, to the next round of eggs:<br />
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This month was also full of crafts and fun. We separated the seeds from our cotton fluff, made flower ice cubes with the star flowers from our borage plants, dyed silk with the garden lobelia, made play dough and flying owls, added yoga to our nighttime ritual, went hiking and famping (fake camping, where you hang out all day at the camp site and cook dinner there, but then go home and sleep in your own bed) and played in the mud:<br />
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We took a field trip up to Gaviota to pick blueberries (just past the tunnel, on your right):<br />
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Then stopped at the farm stand on the way back to pick strawberries and chard, feed the animals, and pick up some organic produce:<br />
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We were gone all day! By the time we got home it was too late to make a pie, so we had berries and whipped cream for dessert. The next morning we set to work on our pie:<br />
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A challenge for me this month has been letting go. I want to do much, much more than I am capable of doing. One example is the kids' meals. I want to make them beautiful meals from scratch every day. Some days this happens, but sometimes I just can't get it together. The other morning I had set out to make muffins, but Jupiter was cranky and Lyra was starving. Frozen waffles to the rescue! I was feeling a little defeated when Lyra got the great idea to make them fancy. She skipped out to the garden to collect star flowers and pansies, and we put some of our violet syrup on them. It completely transformed breakfast into a dish fit for a princess!<br />
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Last month's challenge, math, was still a little challenging, but at least we are making some progress. The math games we've done this month are "Shut the Box", Dominos, and lots of fun with Montessori cuisenaire rods:<br />
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We are preparing for a graduation ceremony to usher Isla on to first grade. This is a big step, and we want to send her into it with confidence and excitement. I think after graduation (which will be early next month) we will concentrate on reading, writing and math, mostly through the games suggested in the Peggy Kaye books "Games for Reading", "Games for Writing" and "Games for Math". It is an ambivalent dance I'm doing, trying not to stress her out or force any learning while also trying to get her up to speed academically so she begins her school year on a positive note in the fall. I am wobbling between a Waldorf method and something more mainstream and with very limited time for lesson planning I am relying on intuitive instruction, for better or worse. My goal for next month is to come back to a rhythm in our home, for everyone's sake.Isla Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153843469311055947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48607202746935743.post-43791596480430027712015-05-01T13:48:00.001-07:002015-05-01T13:48:59.081-07:00April LessonsStill working with sight words, I added to our story from last month:<br />
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"The princesses wanted nothing more than to become the apprentices to the medicine woman of the kingdom, but they did not know what to expect - or when to expect it! Then one day the medicine woman appeared. Her hair was braided and flowers and leaves were woven into the braids. 'It is time for your first challenge,' she said. 'Adira, follow me to the enchanted forest, and there I will hide you in a secret spot. Phaedra, you will have to find your sister, but the pathway is magical, and you will only be able to see the stepping stones if your heart is pure and true, and filled with love. Do you accept this challenge?' 'YES!' the girls practically screamed." Then I "hid" Lyra in the middle of the circle of sight words I had made by having her sit down and covering her with a silk. I took Isla by the hand and the story resumed: "The medicine woman led Phaedra into the woods. 'When you see a stepping stone, say the word that is on it and it will not sink into the bog when you step on it.'" As Isla stepped on each "stepping stone" she said the word. I helped her with the few that she did not know. Once she reached the last stone I lifted the silk off of Lyra. "Phaedra recognized her sister at once and the two princesses hugged each other! Then all three walked back to the palace together."<br />
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I also rearranged their playroom to make a cozy spot to read. Isla has been reading her 1st grade readers to her sister, the two of them all snuggled up together on their "couch":<br />
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On round two of "Herb Fairies" we are again reading about Viola, the violet fairy. In honor of her we made violet and pansy flower candy and violet/pansy syrup, which we used on pancakes and oatmeal, and mixed with sparkling water to make soda. It also came in handy when Lyra got a little sore throat and cough:<br />
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Our hands were stained indigo from making the syrup, so we thought we'd try a silk dye. It turned out lovely!:<br />
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Our calendulas have taken over a section of our garden. Those we've been collecting as they've opened, and drying, so we can make a dye for more silk scarves. This batch is much more orange than the last, so I'm wondering if they'll turn out a different color than the gold we got last time.<br />
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I will be taking all three kids backpacking next month, so we've been practicing hiking a bunch, which has been fun:<br />
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For Easter we started some grass and made some fun bunny cards by painting their hands and only two fingers on each hand. They found the fern baskets the Easter Bunny brought them with wooden eggs which held fairy dust necklaces and quartz points:<br />
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This month was full of fun and crafts, too many to photograph, but here are some highlights, which include a mad scientist birthday party, watercolor, face painting, silk dyeing with natural dyes, gluten-free play dough making, papier machè globes for Earth Day - and TWO Earth Day festivals, family bike rides, baby birds living in my gardening bag right outside the front door, cooking, remedy-making and wooly blue curl tea-making, butterfly raising, rock wall climbing:<br />
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Math has been the biggest challenge for me, because I've been short on lesson planning time. Although Isla seems to enjoy her sporadic math lessons enough, the way we've been going at it is so uninspiring I'm going to have to figure something else out. It's tricky because I'm thinking we do need to take a more mainstream approach in order for her to make a smooth transition into school next year. But there has to be a creative, artistic way to do this, through story and picture language… Next month we begin a Chumash block, so I'll try to incorporate math into that in an inspired way.<br />
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The girls can't wait to start the Chumash block:<br />
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We started with tea and snacks:<br />
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And then we headed out back to collect some flowers, leaves and grasses for the craft:<br />
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For our craft we did some silk hammering, dyeing silk scarves with the plants we found:<br />
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It was a sweet little party which didn't require a whole lot of planning (thank goodness).<br />
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Isla has been loving reading and writing, so that has been our unofficial block this month. Because she may need to know them for school next year, we began practicing the sight words. We do this through story and game, and it has been different each time. The first day we played "Jump to the Word," which was fun and also a little wild. The next day I lined all the words up, stood Isla (who was wearing a crown already just for the heck of it) and Lyra at one end of the word line and began a simple story:<br />
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"Once, in a kingdom far from here, there were two princesses. They were so brave and so pure of heart that they were given a most important task: Get water from the fountain of youth to save the kingdom's medicine woman. She had grown very old and even her powerful medicines could not save her. It was up to the princesses to find the magical water which could make the medicine woman young again. Because the entire village depended on the medicine woman to keep them well, the princesses could not fail. Bravely, they began their journey. It was dangerous, but their mother and father had faith in them. "We know you can do it!" they called, as the princesses marched out of the palace gates. Through jungle, meadow, desert and mountain they roamed, until they came to a very narrow bridge. It was narrow and rickety, and it was the only way across the river of crocodiles!"<br />
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Then, I had Isla ask the magical sooth sayer (me…) which word she may cross to. If I said "no" she had to pick a new word, and if I said "yes" she could cross to that point on the "bridge." Lyra followed behind, but soon grew bored and wanted to lead. I let her lead a couple of times, and I just said, "You may take five steps… You may take three steps…" etc. since she isn't reading yet. After crossing the bridge a few times (it was magical and kept reappearing!) we returned to our story:<br />
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"The princesses did it! They reached the fountain of youth and got out their little glass jars. They filled the jars with the water and carefully screwed on the tops. Home they ran with the magic water. The entire kingdom was there to greet them and how they rejoiced when they saw the princesses triumphantly enter the palace gates. Quickly they hurried up the steps to the medicine woman's room. They gave her the water, and almost instantly all the grey faded from her hair, and the wrinkles left her face. She was young and healthy! 'Princesses!' she exclaimed, 'because you have saved my life, I am forever in your debt. But, I am old and do not wish to remain on this earth forever. I need to train someone to become the new medicine woman of the kingdom… Will you be my apprentices?'"<br />
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Of course my little princesses said "YES!" and I left the story there, knowing we will pick it up again when the time is right.<br />
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The next day I set the word cards out and we played a game of Twister:<br />
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And the rest of the month has been filled with indoor and outdoor fun. We grew "emerald" crystals:<br />
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We went hiking and playing in nature:<br />
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We made paper boxes:<br />
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We watched our caterpillars grow, (and became very protective of them!):<br />
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Another wonderful month, and I'm hoping for a math block for April. Isla Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153843469311055947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48607202746935743.post-23716451286880263522015-02-26T17:04:00.000-08:002015-02-27T08:48:14.331-08:00February Lessons<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2gX7GWOayRriBhqzlqcVEipV3IO0bJupsb1Hh9VpieNLhdRbtHnZGCxHbGlqfIWh__bGWdrCAQcoBoLy111v8vUvDoFIysiAmkmpDrwmEjJvMWWvVhx829tBdmVgAsUb4IkCSCd6wmTg/s1600/IMG_5156.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2gX7GWOayRriBhqzlqcVEipV3IO0bJupsb1Hh9VpieNLhdRbtHnZGCxHbGlqfIWh__bGWdrCAQcoBoLy111v8vUvDoFIysiAmkmpDrwmEjJvMWWvVhx829tBdmVgAsUb4IkCSCd6wmTg/s320/IMG_5156.JPG" /></a><br />
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This month was crazy! We've been applying to an touring lots of different schools, there was a lot of sickness in our house and the baby is hardly napping at all, so our little school rhythm went straight out the window. Also, we went to Disneyland! And we made it out alive. It was actually very sweet and the girls were on their very best behavior.<br />
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We made our hikes/circle time out back a weekly tradition, and got outside whenever we were all well enough to do so:<br />
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We tended our garden and cared for our chickens:<br />
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We had a bakery and made "baked goods and pastries" out of play dough, grated nutmeg and glitter:<br />
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We played "beauty salon" and I was treated to foot rubs, hair do's, and crayon pedicures:<br />
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We played at making forts and dress up:<br />
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We made butternut squash pie:<br />
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Lots of Isla-initiated practicing of writing and reading:<br />
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Our theme this month was herbal healing, and some of the books we read were "I'm a Medicine Woman, Too!" "Yana Listens" and the magical, "Tiny Wish." Our circle times were often outside, and had earth-themed songs and verses:<br />
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Good morning dear earth<br />
Good morning dear sun<br />
Good morning little stones<br />
And the flowers every one<br />
Good morning dear animals<br />
And the birds in the trees<br />
Good morning to you<br />
And good morning to me.<br />
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The earth is firm beneath my feet<br />
The sun shines bright above<br />
And here stand I so kind and strong<br />
All things to know and love.<br />
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Mother Earth, Mother Earth<br />
Take the seed and give it birth<br />
Father Sun gleam and glow<br />
Till the roots begin to grow<br />
Sister Rain, Sister Rain<br />
Shed thy tears to swell the grain<br />
Brother Wind, breathe and blow<br />
Then the blade green will grow<br />
Earth and Sun, Wind and Rain<br />
Turn to gold the living grain! (The melody for this is on Lorraine Nelson Wolf's CD "Come Follow Me")<br />
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And we did songs from Maria Sangiolo's new CD:<br />
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"Farmer's Market," which of course we love to sing on our way to Farmer's Market, and "Plant a Seed," which has movements and is similar to BINGO was his name-O.<br />
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After reading "I'm a Medicine Woman, Too" I gave an assignment: draw a picture of yourself all grown up, in all your strength and wonder and surrounded by what makes you powerful. This is what Isla drew:<br />
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We threw a Valentine's Day party, which we called "The Festival of Love." <br />
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We set up different stations with kid crafts including dip-dyeing cotton doilies, wooden frame decorating (with watercolors, feathers and pressed flowers), animal mask-making, and valentine bag decorating. Some of the games we had were digging for buried treasure (glass gems hidden in our yard, for which we supplied cloth collecting bags) and "Fishing for Love" where kiddos took a wooden fishing pole (a spirit stick with twine and a clothespin on the end) and fish over a silk backdrop. Their grandfather hid behind the cloth with the basket of prizes and clipped one on to the pole.<br />
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Our prizes included "Love in a Puff" seeds, recycled pop can bracelets, lollypops with violets in them, and felt gnomes and hearts:<br />
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Love was also evident in the Great Caterpillar Rescue that happened this month. Our milkweed was completely munched by it's resident caterpillars, and every nursery in town was out of milkweed. What would happen to the five caterpillars that were left on the nubs of stem that were left on our plants? <br />
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The girls carefully collected their caterpillar friends into containers:<br />
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Then we walked down the street to deposit them on our neighbor's milkweed, but when we got there, the plants were covered with wire cages. He does this, from time to time, to allow his plants to grow back, so we didn't want to sabotage his efforts with five hungry caterpillars. Instead, we borrowed two leaves to get our tiny friends through the night. The next morning we called every nursery in town and the towns nearby. Finally we found some plants! They were at Island Seed and Feed, 30 minutes away. We raced over once they opened: <br />
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We had brought the caterpillars with us, so we popped them right on the plants. They started munching away immediately:<br />
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Another lovely spontaneous activity happened when Lyra said, "I wish I had my very own first aid kit." I had been wanting to work on sewing with the children, so we dove right in. It was a bonus that it tied right in to our previous lessons on plant medicine.<br />
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The girls filled their kits with some of the herbal salve they had made, as well as some tweezers and bandaids. I used mine to store the essential oils I use on the go:<br />
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All in all it was a great month, and I learned an important lesson about homeschooling: the kids know what they need. My lack of lesson-planning did not slow their learning. Isla's reading and writing skills took off, as did Lyra's gardening, cooking and crafting! All I did was follow their lead and offer resources once an idea hatched. I am hoping our family will have a "healthy month" next month, so I can get back to some structure and rhythm, but after this month I know that it will all work out, either way, well laid out lessons or not.<br />
Isla Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153843469311055947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48607202746935743.post-34930936771560579372015-01-22T09:07:00.000-08:002015-01-22T09:07:03.012-08:00January LessonsThis month we began with a quality of numbers block (which we leapt right into on the 26th of December!) <br />
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Day 1 - The girls sit down for a puppet show:<br />
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*This is what our table looked like by the end of our block. Only Empress Equal and Danny Divide were there at first, when the puppet show began, and day by day as the story progressed new gnomes (Minus Takeaway, Addy Plus, and Tanya Times) were added to the table.<br />
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They discover, much to their surprise, they are PART of the puppet show! They use the keys they received back in our first math block to unlock the doors to the magical world of Numeria, where they find they ARE Phaedra and Adira! Empress Equal speaks directly to them, explaining the Land of Numeria is experiencing an eternal winter (oh dear, I tied our math block to Frozen, ever so slightly, just to make sure I kept their interest!) and she needs the help of the princesses to restore the balance of Nature and bring back spring. You see, the people of Numeria use special gems to help them with their everyday lives. They use them to heat their homes, for cooking, and instead of money, to buy things. Unfortunately, they became greedy and would not share with one another. Life became all about collecting the most gems and not about helping one another. A wise enchantress named Cyphir, who was the guardian of Numeria, cast a spell over the land, making it a frozen, snowy place, and hiding all of the gems in the earth until the people could once again learn to work together. Now the people of Numeria are ready to work together! Each of the four countries of Numeria has sent a special gnome to help find the jewels and distribute them among the people equally, and the gnomes, like the people, must work together to do this. Once the gems are distributed equally the balance of Nature will be restored. It is a very big job, and they will need the help of the princesses in order to do it. <br />
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The girls readily agree, of course, although they are both orbing with the excitement of it all. Just as the girls are talking to Empress Equal, they hear a noise and notice a little red gnome. Empress Equal introduces them to Danny Divide, the first of the four gnomes, who is in charge of distributing all of the jewels of Numeria equally among the people who live there, thus making sure everything is fair (a concept which has become of utmost importance to my two girls!) He asks for their help and they can't wait to get started. To thank them for agreeing to help he gives each of them a beautiful gift: a red velvet pouch filled with beautiful pink gems. But, there are not an equal amount of gems in the pouches! It's not fair! How can the girls make it fair? Isla, er, I mean Phaedra, decides we should dump out all of the gems and give one to Adira, one to Phaedra, another to Adira, another to Phaedra… reassuring me that I did not bring in this concept too soon ;). Then the girls drew pictures of Danny Divide:<br />
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Day 2 - Isla and Lyra recalled what they remembered about the puppet show and then Isla wrote a sentence: "Danny Divide likes to share and be fair." And then I gave the girls a bowl of raspberries at their desk to share. How to divide them equally? They both started in immediately with the "one for you, one for me" thing, but they went in twos and threes to make it quicker! OK wow! So I thought she might be ready for a number sentence. We worked with the gems. 10 *divided by* 2 = 5. It ended up seeming like too much, though, so we dropped it for now.<br />
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Next we went back to our puppet show, where the girls were greeted by Danny Divide. As they began helping him they hear someone coming. It is a tall, slim, blue gnome. He is introduced to the princesses as Minus Takeaway, and then he tells them he has found twelve jewels! But, as he searches his pockets, he only finds five! The girls tell him he must have holes in his pockets. So, how many jewels did he lose? We got out twelve gems, then took some away until there were five left. Then we counted the ones we had taken away - seven! Poor Minus Takeaway lost seven gems. The girls promised they would help him look, but that would have to wait until tomorrow. Then, we sat down at the desk and drew pictures of Minus Takeaway. I didn't draw at all, and the gnomes I needle felted did not have faces. I was very pleased to see that Isla added their special symbols without any prompting, and also that she really "got" what they were all about by the faces she gave them:<br />
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Day 3 - The girls recalled what they remembered of the last puppet show and then Isla wrote the sentence: "Minus Takeaway lost some gems." I tried to use sentences that used easy words to read, and were as phonetic as possible, or used sight words. Back to the puppet show we went, where the girls immediately began comforting Minus Takeaway. They came up with a plan to help, but just then, someone came walking up. It was a portly green gnome. Danny Divide took charge of introductions and the green gnome was introduced as Addy Plus. He was very pleased because he had just found SEVEN jewels on the trail to the cave where Danny Divide was working. How many did you say? SEVEN… Yes, the girls picked up on that, and guessed they were Minus Takeaway's lost jewels. Addy Plus happily gave them to Minus. We did a tiny bit of work with the jewels, helping the three gnomes, and then headed to the desk to draw Addy Plus:<br />
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Day 4 - Once again, the girls recalled what they remembered from the day before. Then Isla wrote the sentence: "Addy Plus found the lost gems." We then made our way over to the puppet show table. The girls said hello to the gnomes, and began helping with the latest predicament. Danny Divide laid out a pile of jewels (40) which they wanted to share equally among the four countries of Numeria. Once the girls had sorted out four piles of ten, a new gnome burst onto the scene. She was yellow, with a rainbow hat and a lot of energy. Danny Divide introduced her to the princesses as Tanya Times. Oh no. Danny Divide forgot how many jewels they had started with! The princesses had forgotten also! Ah, well, we need to count again. One, two… But wait! Tanya Times hops over and says she has a faster way! How many are in each pile? Ten. How many piles? Four. Let's count by tens! 10, 20, 30…40! You get the idea. Then back to the desk to draw Tanya Times:<br />
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Day 5 - The girls retold the story, and Isla wrote: "Tanya Times counts quickly."<br />
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I felt like that was good, for now, and we do little math problems as they come up in everyday life. The girls talk about Danny Divide often, as sharing raspberries equally comes up quite a bit in this house!<br />
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Next we began a block which I call (to myself) The Wonder of Plants. The girls received special botanist cases, which included leather, lockable, lapis-crystal covered nature journals, small scissors, magnifying glass, seed-collecting box, flower-collecting box, and small pencil:<br />
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I have given very little direction to this block. The girls have taken a big interest in their cases, and they already have a real interest in and love of plants, so I am following their lead here. The first day Isla took her case outside and took a small cutting of our passion fruit vine, and then sketched the vine. She came in and asked me how to spell "Passion Flower" so she could write it underneath her drawing. So far, so good. <br />
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All three kids got the chicken pox this month, so it was good timing for a bit of a break. I let most of the month be "free form" while the children healed and we spent lots of time in nature as well as snuggled up at home. The things we do for fun during the day "count" for our nature lessons. We learned how to safely make a fire (and how and why we should put it ALL the way out):<br />
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When we are out and about in nature (which is almost every day) we ask questions about the plants we meet. This month we learned about Sumac, which we see all the time, and we learned that you can tell poison sumac (which we do not have here in California, but still, good to know) by the "milk" that comes out of the leaves if you break one. The girls were delighted that "our" sumac, Laurel sumac, did not have any milk in it. On our hike we spotted chickweed, one of their favorite plants. We are growing some at home, and it's fun to see it in the wild. On one of our urban walks we found what looked to be chickweed, but the flowers were orange with purple centers. We came home, puzzled, and looked it up. Apparently that is called red chickweed! The girls like to point out any plants they know as we come across them, and everything plant-related is fascinating to them right now.<br />
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Of course this block goes well with our remedy-making obsession:<br />
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And we have several games we play that go along with the theme:<br />
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Wildcraft, Gaia's Garden, One Seed and Living Landscapes.<br />
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And the rest of our day…<br />
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We cook (lots of things, but for some reason I only took pictures of our jellies - wild harvested prickly pear and front yard harvested lime - and some letter pancakes):<br />
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We make things out of toilet paper rolls (like this paper ball run, here):<br />
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We play outside, go on hikes, build fires to roast marshmallows:<br />
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Walk down to the beach in the rain to have circle time and snack when we're very lucky:<br />
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Speaking of circle, here is where I got some of the ideas for our math circle:<br />
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y2gleW55r4&feature=related<br />
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And this month we've been reading books like "The Seven Year Wonder Book" and "Twig." The books we've read that really go with our Wonder of Plants block are "I'm a Medicine Woman, Too," "Yana Listens," "Shanleya's Quest," "The Herbalist of Yarrow," and "Little Green Hiking Hood." Here are some of the reference books that inspire me for our "Wonder of Plants" block (which of course we kind of do year-round, not just for one block):<br />
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Here are some pictures of painting time. While the girls wait patiently and reverently, I light a candle and tell a story: <br />
<i>I hold the brush in my hand</i> In a beautiful little wood, that stretched alongside a golden meadow, there lived a little fox named Fritz. Fritz was a very handsome fox, and as foxes often are, Fritz was rather proud of his long fluffy tail. <i>I gently stroke the bristles of the brush.</i> He had a special way of showing off his long, handsome tail when it was warm enough down by the clear, cool stream, and here's what he did: Fritz would carefully get his tail wet in the stream, <i>I dip the brush in the water jar.</i> and then, ever so carefully, he would dip it in the red earth <i>I dip my brush carefully in the red paint.</i> and draw a lovely design <i>I begin to paint.</i> on the large, flat rock which rested by the banks of the stream. Before long a few animals had gathered to watch Fritz at his work. Once the red design was just right, Fritz carefully dipped his tail back in the stream. <i>I dip my brush in the jar of water… you get the idea!</i> But there was still a bit of red on his tail, so Fritz dunked it up and down in the waters of the stream a few more times. When he was sure all of the red earth was out of his long, lovely tail, he gently wiped it on the rocks at the edge of the stream so that it would not drip. Then, he found some beautiful yellow sand near his large, flat rock and he dipped his tail in that. By now there was a small crowd of forest animals watching Fritz paint! He painted freely and happily with the yellow sand, and stood back to look at his rock. Almost perfect! He went to the stream to clean the yellow sand off of his tail, gently wiped it off and on his way back to his rock he spied some blue clay in the earth. That was just the thing. He dipped his lovely tail in the blue clay and made a few final touches to his painting. Now there were many of his forest friends watching him paint, and Fritz smiled at all of them. He was finally finished with his painting. One last thing to do - clean off his tail in the clear, cool stream.<br />
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After the girls listen to the story, we begin our painting song:<br />
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Rainbow fairies come to me<br />
Dance across my paper free<br />
How to make my paintings bright<br />
Filled with warmth and loving light<br />
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As we sing, I pass out the brushes and the girls begin painting: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV2fMDjUNd6RxRQ35IRF7jTzJQxjsJl_xBsYWIsZvzVcND4Ud-VsuZH_qTVEsarKfhNdInNFeDq-dMFOS_l2ZTNFp6ESK1-HD235sGVO7oFV1gidCDyU2uABcZPIHHH6WNZOs3ITj7Bnc/s1600/IMG_5183.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV2fMDjUNd6RxRQ35IRF7jTzJQxjsJl_xBsYWIsZvzVcND4Ud-VsuZH_qTVEsarKfhNdInNFeDq-dMFOS_l2ZTNFp6ESK1-HD235sGVO7oFV1gidCDyU2uABcZPIHHH6WNZOs3ITj7Bnc/s320/IMG_5183.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPswv5Tnxvl21L5fO5glF84JxpnXCIqwuaiFLtBzOZ9DdD5tEndG2iJySR0gQqXuzB1kgK_wq6AR9JXCr-APlZ5-DvErV16peoXK-KnnOYbvHqW4XdUSVmCpgY0S9xIKDiC8h4K418fMU/s1600/IMG_5184.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPswv5Tnxvl21L5fO5glF84JxpnXCIqwuaiFLtBzOZ9DdD5tEndG2iJySR0gQqXuzB1kgK_wq6AR9JXCr-APlZ5-DvErV16peoXK-KnnOYbvHqW4XdUSVmCpgY0S9xIKDiC8h4K418fMU/s320/IMG_5184.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcwnSkKe-OgQkMnwU-t-3qc-GrSmP92WjSkv1aksNG3zFFashjt8AnaxyaHLdvRrLnGYOVx2VmNMAYb5FajBUsDOETg_rfO03C8_lAR-PSqK0DQvRqc2_vhImHs3rYf9uG8wu99lu2LG4/s1600/IMG_5186.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcwnSkKe-OgQkMnwU-t-3qc-GrSmP92WjSkv1aksNG3zFFashjt8AnaxyaHLdvRrLnGYOVx2VmNMAYb5FajBUsDOETg_rfO03C8_lAR-PSqK0DQvRqc2_vhImHs3rYf9uG8wu99lu2LG4/s320/IMG_5186.JPG" /></a><br />
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Next Month: The girls were feeling disappointed about missing out on the school valentine gift exchange, so we are planning on having a "Festival of Love" over here next month. We started getting our Nature Table ready:<br />
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Feeling less and less certain of where Isla will start school in September, I am feeling the pressure to get her reading. But I can't let her feel a modicum of pressure! We are plucking along, keeping everything in the imaginary realm, learning through story and picture.<br />
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We finished up our book on uppercase letters, "The Wise Enchanter," with which I took significant literary license to make it work for my girls. Here are the last letters (I guess I didn't take a picture of Z):<br />
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Then, since the vast majority of letters in their lives will be lowercase, we figured it was time to bring those in. The letters that were the same (or very similar) but smaller (c,k,o,p,s,v,w,x,y,z) were instantly recognized, but the rest had to be learned. Some were easy for me to introduce imaginatively. E, for example, was "elephant" in our story, so I drew the lowercase "e" as a baby elephant, with its trunk hanging down. This also helped Isla remember which way both of the letters faced, since Mama and Baby faced each other. Others were tricky. We started by making watercolor cards with upper- and lowercase letters on them:<br />
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These went up on the fridge so she could easily see them from her school desk:<br />
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I had her write them all down as though they were different animals on the earth, some of which reached up to the sky, and some of which dipped a tail into the water:<br />
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Most of the work learning to read Isla does on her own, whenever she feels like it and without any prodding by me. On walks she delights in finding letters she knows on signs or spray painted on the sidewalk. At home both girls love to play with their wooden letters:<br />
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Besides a little bit on letters, December has been mostly about remedy-making:<br />
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Crafting:<br />
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Cooking: We made so many pies! I don't think I captured much of our cooking on digital film, though.<br />
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Dressing up, mostly playing Anna and Elsa from "Frozen." Yes, I let them watch "Frozen." I don't want to be too extreme, so we don't cut out ALL media. We don't do TV, but we do watch a few carefully selected movies. Some that made the cut: "My Neighbor Totoro," "Ponyo," and "Frozen." They don't play on our computer, but I do use it with them to look up plants we don't know, and they are allowed to play the games on the computers at the library.<br />
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And playing outside (although we didn't take many pictures of our outdoor adventures this month, here are a few - at the zoo, at the park and creek, in our backyard with her froggy friend, and at the spot they call "Fairyland"):<br />
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We made the trip to Fillmore to chop down our tree, and made it to the grocery store to see Santa:<br />
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We saw The Nutcracker:<br />
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We keep snack time fun:<br />
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And we've been reading books on some of the different ways people celebrate this time of year:<br />
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It has been a busy month, and I'm looking forward to getting back into our routine. The girls are dying to go to Numeria, and take the keys I gave them out of their desk drawers to look at often. I am almost ready for our math block, and have finished the math gnomes as well as Empress Equal: <br />
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Now I just have to do some more reading ("Making Math Meaningful" and a few other ones, especially Andrea's beautifully retold homeschool adventures on her blog, "Littlest Birds," from which I borrow many ideas and glean much inspiration) and get my script sorted out for the interactive puppet show I plan to do. My hope is that I can set it up so that Phaedra and Adira (see November Lessons) become my girls when they enter Numeria. Then, they will meet the math gnomes (the four processes) one by one. They will be able to interact with the gnomes. I have velvet pouches and beautiful jewels in different colors for manipulatives. I'm as excited about our next math block as the girls are. Isla Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153843469311055947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48607202746935743.post-68853238150873450362014-12-22T19:18:00.000-08:002014-12-22T19:21:38.512-08:00Rhythm of Our Home(school)When things run smoothly around here, it's because I've kept up our daily/weekly/monthly/seasonal rhythms. Here's a bit of what those look like in our home:<br />
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OUR DAILY RHYTHM:<br />
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Wake/cuddle<br />
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free play for girls while Mama cooks a warm breakfast and Baby (usually) naps<br />
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breakfast blessing, then breakfast with tea together<br />
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Morning Verse: <br />
"The sun, with loving light<br />
Makes bright for me each day.<br />
The soul, with Spirit power<br />
Gives strength unto my limbs.<br />
In sunlight shining clear,<br />
I do revere Oh God,<br />
The strength of humankind,<br />
That goodness has planted in my soul,<br />
That I, with all mt might,<br />
May love to work and learn.<br />
From Thee stream light and strength;<br />
To Thee rise love and thanks.<br />
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Sing "Who will Come Into My Wee Ring" as we gather for circle<br />
Circle time consists of 15-20 minutes of songs, poems and games which go together in a theme. September was "Michaelmas" for one circle and "apples" for the other. October was "Pumpkins" and "acorns," and both circles included a lot of letter songs and games. November was "corn/harvest" and "Martinmas/Lantern Walk," and both circles included a lot of math/counting songs and games. December has been "Christmas."<br />
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After circle my four year-old and six year-old sit at their wooden table for Main Lesson. The subject of main lesson rotates on blocks, which last anywhere from 2-4 weeks. So far we have had blocks on form drawing, uppercase letters, quality of numbers, and letters again, including lowercase. Next up will be the four mathematical processes, wee one's botany - AKA the wonder of plants, and building words. We will conduct our botany block outdoors, rather than in the desk, of course.<br />
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Free play while Mama tends to Baby and gets snack or first lunch ready<br />
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Snack together, indoors or out:<br />
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Reading time, where Mama reads one or a few of these categories: 1. a chapter in the current month's Herb Fairies, 2. a story from Herbal Roots Zine, 3. Ladybug Magazine, 4. books from the library and/or home that go along with the theme of the circle/block<br />
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Outdoor free play/ gardening time/ walk or hike/ fun with Daddy<br />
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Home for late lunch/ second lunch<br />
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Crafts/ remedy-making/ painting/ modeling/ or cooking project (AKA help Mama make dinner)<br />
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Free Play<br />
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Dinner blessing:<br />
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Give thanks to the Mother Earth<br />
Give thanks to the Father Sun<br />
Give thanks to the plants in the garden where<br />
The Mother and the Father are one<br />
Give thanks<br />
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and dinner together with Daddy<br />
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Straight to bath, brush teeth, PJs on<br />
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Cuddle up on couch, each child brings over book of choice, read books by fire<br />
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Songs (I love you little ____, Mommy loves you, Daddy loves you, too, Which is the way to fairy land?, Upstairs to fairy land<br />
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With this last song I take the girls with me to their room and get them snuggled in bed<br />
Isla Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153843469311055947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48607202746935743.post-65546863225828249602014-12-07T22:47:00.000-08:002014-12-07T22:50:34.280-08:00November Homeschool November… <br />
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We spent a couple of weeks on the quality of numbers using a story of the Cloud Princesses. I began making up stories of the Cloud Princesses at bedtime, but since the girls were fascinated by them I made one up for our first math block. The story begins…<br />
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The Cloud Princesses:<br />
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Compare to my princesses:<br />
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'Up in the sky, above the grey and blue clouds, and far above the white clouds… up, up, up in the pink and purple clouds, lies the castle of the Cloud Princesses. The castle is made of jewels and crystals, and sparkles in the rays of the sun. The Cloud Princesses live with their mother the queen, their father the king, and their little brother, the baby prince. The princesses share a bedroom in the tallest tower of the castle. Their beds are made of sparkling gold and their walls are painted to look like the sunrise. Every day they go out into their gardens and take care of their plants. They go to the royal stables and take care of their ponies. And sometimes they go for adventures. This day, the Cloud Princesses were in the mood for adventure! They wandered out of the palace gardens and over to the forest on the edge of the clouds. There, they saw a strange little creature, unlike any they'd seen before. He seemed to smile at them, and something about the way he looked at the sisters made them know he wanted them to follow. The girls ran after the strange, furry little creature, over rocks, around trees, until - WHOOSH!!! - they fell through a hole in the clouds! Down, down, down they fell, until they landed softly in a strange place. It was all grey! Before them they saw a tall flight of stairs, and they immediately climbed it. At the top of the stairs was a beautiful old woman. She turned to them and smiled, but there was sadness in her eyes. <br />
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"I am so happy you've come!" she says. "Phaedra, Adira, I need your help. I am the Empress of Numeria, but I cannot return to my land without unlocking this box. (Here I present a lock-box.) I have been away from Numeria for so long that I have forgotten what the numbers mean. Can you help me to solve these ten riddles?"'<br />
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Of course the sisters agree to help the Empress. The first riddle is: What is one? The girls think and think. With the help of Father Sun they come up with many ideas: "There is only one of me!" "One sun!" and so on… The next morning they report what they have discovered to the Empress. As they tell her this, the number 1 on the lock-box begins to glow! (because I have colored it with a crayon…) Each day, with the help of special friends they meet, they come up with the answers to the riddles of numbers 1-10. In circle time, we sing songs about the quality of numbers, and I bought chalk for the girls with which we drew some hop-scotch on the driveway. On the last day, the princesses solve the last riddle - 10. With this, the final number on the lock-box glows and the box opens! Inside, the girls get a glimpse into Numeria (a watercolor of the magical land, complete with hiding gnomes which I have taped to the bottom of the box.) There are also two keys, one for each girl. They will need these later on to travel to and from Numeria… Which we will likely do next month.<br />
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Math Outdoors:<br />
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Letters:<br />
I felt like we needed to reinforce the letters a little, so we revisited them by reading "The Wise Enchanter" with which I took a big literary license in order to make it less scary for the children. The story is great, and it is about four children on a quest to save all the worlds letters, thereby saving all the wisdom of the world, and finding the Wise Enchanter and his palace. Every day we did a new letter/chapter or two, and the day we started the story I gave the girls their own "Book of Knowledge": <br />
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Each day, as the children in the story discovered a new letter and drew a picture in their magic book, Isla wrote the letter and drew a picture in her own book. I drew pictures on the board beforehand (or quickly during):<br />
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I didn't take pictures of all of the letters, and some of them I will admit were not picture-worthy. One magical thing that happened, while reading about a nifty nebula for "N" was that a little round rainbow of light found its way onto the page, right over the nebula:<br />
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More Outdoor Fun:<br />
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Crafts:<br />
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Cooking:<br />
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Raising our meat connects us to the food we eat. The girls take good care of their pigs, and know that once they are big they will be processed to nourish our bodies. They are respectful and thankful. I've been a vegetarian for the bulk of my life, but when I made the decision to eat meat, I also made the decision to care about where it comes from and how the animals are treated.<br />
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Plant Remedies:<br />
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Cooking - We made lots of things to go along with what we are learning about herbs and spices, and did a lot of harvesting from our garden. Here are just a few of the things we made: raw blackberry pie, rosemary shortbread, avocado-spirulina smoothies, masala chai, pumpkin vanilla spiced almond milk, chayote agua fresca...<br />
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Making Remedies: Astragalus Tincture and Elderberry Syrup for Cold and Flu Season - This really tied back in to the first couple of three-day letter stories I told, where the protagonists were young female herbalists...<br />
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Crafting...<br />
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Free Play - Most of our day is free play, and 80% of it is rich, imaginative play indoors and out. There is also constructing of marble runs, block castles, puzzles, inventing new art projects, giving puppet shows, and making elaborate forts...<br />
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Gardening...<br />
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Nature Walks...<br />
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Field Trips...<br />
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One important part of our day I don't have any pictures of - Circle Time! But that deserves an entire post of its own...<br />
Isla Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153843469311055947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48607202746935743.post-85303280029869089002014-09-01T23:06:00.000-07:002014-09-01T23:06:24.754-07:00First Day of Windsong Homeschool <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ_v0SXgxSylw31TpuY05MHnZ2Xp5osFn90FhJaEZyEfMHql4GW8cALDGfDPP2XdNKsIUJhka1wONgll-mBwuPbYbVZAwsOiuQFYhsckhv7Ja0KDqco8t_DSWImbeoComseY9Cf5j0MUI/s1600/IMG_0558.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ_v0SXgxSylw31TpuY05MHnZ2Xp5osFn90FhJaEZyEfMHql4GW8cALDGfDPP2XdNKsIUJhka1wONgll-mBwuPbYbVZAwsOiuQFYhsckhv7Ja0KDqco8t_DSWImbeoComseY9Cf5j0MUI/s320/IMG_0558.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0APBGu1WsHKT_F8knVy4RPBx1qZ7kjC0wAuWJ5kVMjUZsHdo5FymP-_PiUfPoVhR5TYvgpFcyj7N6ebvqIm71AC2cnWOPFqWVb-_3Hm0kOOqm__LzU899z3jSPW_WMW4DNsQqM4zO65E/s1600/IMG_0594.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" 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Lemon balm infusion for tea and to freeze for popsicles.Isla Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153843469311055947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48607202746935743.post-17588345700745011872014-07-23T18:01:00.000-07:002014-07-23T18:01:00.030-07:00Coffee Filter Butterflies<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSxzw8vdOG1JikJjtTWkPmj0PN67To6gh4fwjTpksQpLvGmgtwynUhJ0efWcYXf2h0vB17boEdYOzCAlIRYKO1kVhP4vnRFG73yZAHF4SqxPQABu2j55Q8wP4AY2QalKkNNvdNFrZDD3A/s1600/IMG_5069.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSxzw8vdOG1JikJjtTWkPmj0PN67To6gh4fwjTpksQpLvGmgtwynUhJ0efWcYXf2h0vB17boEdYOzCAlIRYKO1kVhP4vnRFG73yZAHF4SqxPQABu2j55Q8wP4AY2QalKkNNvdNFrZDD3A/s320/IMG_5069.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEnK3rDmAv2nitXqFSuB3O4QcYrmSr8bGvEDvwWQ2fvQK-jXSlaQvXr00n6uO3N_SF6E3PO7FvFviFabA9lhzbTa37b51ta-Mo3SGIvONUsqHKLd1OPyBhLCHjElQByCNz8UvvVwe6E6o/s1600/IMG_5070.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEnK3rDmAv2nitXqFSuB3O4QcYrmSr8bGvEDvwWQ2fvQK-jXSlaQvXr00n6uO3N_SF6E3PO7FvFviFabA9lhzbTa37b51ta-Mo3SGIvONUsqHKLd1OPyBhLCHjElQByCNz8UvvVwe6E6o/s320/IMG_5070.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn37JpD9AGdR3YPmDKEuQDuB0ObZEgZYS3EJVO3GjQLTXmxqrkb16tJ6TkGCsLIYS64KS3wCMjF3um_PHHQFD4pk7tjNMrj6I1Ea9UjPzTSuLXcTpY9dkJLoxl_HtEt0wGymooIq3Zvl4/s1600/IMG_5102.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn37JpD9AGdR3YPmDKEuQDuB0ObZEgZYS3EJVO3GjQLTXmxqrkb16tJ6TkGCsLIYS64KS3wCMjF3um_PHHQFD4pk7tjNMrj6I1Ea9UjPzTSuLXcTpY9dkJLoxl_HtEt0wGymooIq3Zvl4/s320/IMG_5102.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht4vmiEKfqeCHjUzdePjAtrzoeG_05dph1M060XxbbpH6MMG-INpMdRuUiOtH-roX2C6jHPJC_wdMazkLv7PNDJGzTYT9wuZdN7H7mOaY5EYwfQDH5unWChAEN-LmKfYxA1U84C2_q3ew/s1600/IMG_5121.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht4vmiEKfqeCHjUzdePjAtrzoeG_05dph1M060XxbbpH6MMG-INpMdRuUiOtH-roX2C6jHPJC_wdMazkLv7PNDJGzTYT9wuZdN7H7mOaY5EYwfQDH5unWChAEN-LmKfYxA1U84C2_q3ew/s320/IMG_5121.JPG" /></a>Isla Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153843469311055947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48607202746935743.post-48477994696868611972014-07-17T17:59:00.000-07:002014-07-17T17:59:00.481-07:00Butterfly<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirrqiTkFarC0U2W3QVZPLKX6AQS6nozIsT61NndnqQqPg-0mXG_LMNk2ahyphenhyphenDExajLCfnWylxc5J6yK3o4h9YJ94JUTdrWk08NBM5jE0oC1Ot6TrHBkzauT9z6pmsZL5eWd9epuAqXhV24/s1600/IMG_5011.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirrqiTkFarC0U2W3QVZPLKX6AQS6nozIsT61NndnqQqPg-0mXG_LMNk2ahyphenhyphenDExajLCfnWylxc5J6yK3o4h9YJ94JUTdrWk08NBM5jE0oC1Ot6TrHBkzauT9z6pmsZL5eWd9epuAqXhV24/s320/IMG_5011.jpg" /></a><br />
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We harvest the leaves from some fallen branches out back...<br />
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We cut them up into small pieces and made a tincture...<br />
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...and some eucalyptus-infused honey. Maybe tomorrow we will dye wool and silk with the dried leaves.<br />
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While we cut the leaves I told the girls some eucalyptus stories. We talked about what kinds of remedies we could make and what ailments they would cure. They retain more than I imagined they would: yesterday Isla had a splinter in her foot and she said, "We need plantain! I have to make a poultice to pull the splinter out of my foot!" Today she said she had a stuffy nose, "But I don't want to breathe in eucalyptus steam!" Isla Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153843469311055947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48607202746935743.post-35073271329551366672014-05-26T15:56:00.000-07:002014-05-26T15:56:34.603-07:00Bird Whisperer<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkjG3BLniq8Fpzm5aq6fade99-JqE4psDhsGYKkf71kZK5ZZAm4F8Np5jH3U92RUpZS48yN8AKQwjJpmYiiAplCbtFvsun86CAI0lCosPwL21eR9G3jffs0E6cBGTPkyXq8Nvre5jLaB0/s1600/IMG_4519.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkjG3BLniq8Fpzm5aq6fade99-JqE4psDhsGYKkf71kZK5ZZAm4F8Np5jH3U92RUpZS48yN8AKQwjJpmYiiAplCbtFvsun86CAI0lCosPwL21eR9G3jffs0E6cBGTPkyXq8Nvre5jLaB0/s320/IMG_4519.JPG" /></a><br />
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The eggs that were laid in the nest made in Isla's hanging bike helmet outside hatched a while ago. We left the babies alone, and it looks like they grew up enough to fly. Our front door was open and two flew right inside! Luckily Grandpa Tapa was near, so we enlisted his help with freeing our bird friends. I imagined he would get a broom to shoo them outside or something but instead he calmly went up to first one then the other. He talked to them and then gently cupped one at a time in his big hands. The girls got to see each one up close for just a split second before they burst out of Tapa's hands into their sky home. Isla even pet one!Isla Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153843469311055947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48607202746935743.post-41610930208335391442014-05-26T15:45:00.001-07:002014-05-26T15:45:19.705-07:00California Poppy<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhU_cVAyQzH7kOupmcRkkcmhimg1HMMytEG0UvffBXhBVFKCjsX3FJDDFjKRU1M3YV_6KW_yJRz8P72l86dW56kiL0E4hg9jjG-AYfPSShcmWOGp0z05cjL1PLFEmglZzNLlzkbjJr9Ho/s1600/IMG_4427.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhU_cVAyQzH7kOupmcRkkcmhimg1HMMytEG0UvffBXhBVFKCjsX3FJDDFjKRU1M3YV_6KW_yJRz8P72l86dW56kiL0E4hg9jjG-AYfPSShcmWOGp0z05cjL1PLFEmglZzNLlzkbjJr9Ho/s320/IMG_4427.JPG" /></a> Chopping it all up...<br />
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Our neighbor was pulling out a bunch of California poppy in front of her home. It was the perfect opportunity to harvest some and make some tincture. Isla was very excited about the helpful qualities of the poppy, and even feigned a toothache so she could try pressing the root against her gums (it didn't end up being a popular remedy because of the taste!). We did have fun chopping up the plants and making tincture, although the best part ended up being finding caterpillars among the leaves.Isla Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153843469311055947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48607202746935743.post-7515930202587274862014-05-26T15:31:00.002-07:002014-05-26T15:31:46.342-07:00Surfing with Dolphins<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm_8akDsHK2i8QIQBW0eraYHLyAJf_W8hUvnTycQpV1k0sj9cVWm4JAmTIKVKeLVgT8KAx6CAgSalBAURLgFyHC9YG21Uzx7qSIgFX6UJwN4pNcANr9OL-Gpci4gCenCA-7oR3Nq5VhrE/s1600/IMG_4221.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm_8akDsHK2i8QIQBW0eraYHLyAJf_W8hUvnTycQpV1k0sj9cVWm4JAmTIKVKeLVgT8KAx6CAgSalBAURLgFyHC9YG21Uzx7qSIgFX6UJwN4pNcANr9OL-Gpci4gCenCA-7oR3Nq5VhrE/s320/IMG_4221.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaphJbu_JUJihhX8PhPGYoHhrnwb4Kxs3YdTsEcRfuwI09mdTA7R9CrizDyExk9y6rtTqvyUUJCTiraoqwFmQa00NO0mu2Xo6sqHTxgdjZQxe3TgRzSGg9b3yd6RHpEYELEPx93CCRYV8/s1600/IMG_4222.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaphJbu_JUJihhX8PhPGYoHhrnwb4Kxs3YdTsEcRfuwI09mdTA7R9CrizDyExk9y6rtTqvyUUJCTiraoqwFmQa00NO0mu2Xo6sqHTxgdjZQxe3TgRzSGg9b3yd6RHpEYELEPx93CCRYV8/s320/IMG_4222.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqh1EU7vda23w0YRmyO1fLDvr84hBZZOvmsrx3F1P0BOzwMhtCEw_P3FD6S2EnRsBaWCwb66UPwplcg-tQ9JOy8kAuYaTbWgWoLdcXSphhxtWCtHqyGlvBFzqjQTolQoEeFGjuGcwpkjM/s1600/IMG_4225.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqh1EU7vda23w0YRmyO1fLDvr84hBZZOvmsrx3F1P0BOzwMhtCEw_P3FD6S2EnRsBaWCwb66UPwplcg-tQ9JOy8kAuYaTbWgWoLdcXSphhxtWCtHqyGlvBFzqjQTolQoEeFGjuGcwpkjM/s320/IMG_4225.JPG" /></a><br />
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Another incredible day at the beach. The girls got to go surfing with Daddy, and about ten minutes into their session dozens of dolphins came out to join them, flipping and jumping within a few feet of them. Goodness, I need a better camera. I was able to snap a couple of grainy shots, but they don't come close to capturing the magic of this afternoon. Isla Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153843469311055947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48607202746935743.post-9318699672558337022014-05-26T15:26:00.001-07:002014-05-26T15:26:26.029-07:00Camping in Big Sur<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF8QZZ-Fq7GECM91Rkq0WfvJHgQJ4v5T8k9uBEn6AgqoDHpeuFzIsSn-wdCT33sRNjkjiiBO5l5rNYdrtXKCka4t3gn6-nSKmH_ScR_BIkjy8rSADArk6pwY-BQeGmoEv698ipvC8btJE/s1600/IMG_3920.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF8QZZ-Fq7GECM91Rkq0WfvJHgQJ4v5T8k9uBEn6AgqoDHpeuFzIsSn-wdCT33sRNjkjiiBO5l5rNYdrtXKCka4t3gn6-nSKmH_ScR_BIkjy8rSADArk6pwY-BQeGmoEv698ipvC8btJE/s320/IMG_3920.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMrtjwkdWcJZpD0eY0DEiAnIBntM0UkAPHRbFYH3dYB-VjsZjCZzUfMmnJQiwhWf9T_sAHHzcrD2y_EwgoGRiurkHTCMabyBhGubcJxH_uJ4lmRZS3um8APjpNW7n3E6b4Cro2SX7UJJs/s1600/IMG_3922.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMrtjwkdWcJZpD0eY0DEiAnIBntM0UkAPHRbFYH3dYB-VjsZjCZzUfMmnJQiwhWf9T_sAHHzcrD2y_EwgoGRiurkHTCMabyBhGubcJxH_uJ4lmRZS3um8APjpNW7n3E6b4Cro2SX7UJJs/s320/IMG_3922.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLXoNlUr8yW2fQhserzgdeOVd0OFk78J-Dt4Fk8jEkg_7iercLkEQji53EMu71cUeELP5diKRcGIaKskvzjVD9UfWr6-yPso_Dz5if685rpJi3Ybza_FzLaIR5uu0FoeyqRPO7S0bolXA/s1600/IMG_3924.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLXoNlUr8yW2fQhserzgdeOVd0OFk78J-Dt4Fk8jEkg_7iercLkEQji53EMu71cUeELP5diKRcGIaKskvzjVD9UfWr6-yPso_Dz5if685rpJi3Ybza_FzLaIR5uu0FoeyqRPO7S0bolXA/s320/IMG_3924.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLrLFn2Aq-X10ZZlxcW_xqaDjphnayOT_tJZTcM51EFNyM76LXLyMzBE07ZiYqW-eMOuEGtpeEIZjmKrhGq_8uDbfW_t1WUo94HDMviLwDzfpwcOS__fIpj-PM25FJIHMJ6m1D3_RyZSg/s1600/IMG_3973.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLrLFn2Aq-X10ZZlxcW_xqaDjphnayOT_tJZTcM51EFNyM76LXLyMzBE07ZiYqW-eMOuEGtpeEIZjmKrhGq_8uDbfW_t1WUo94HDMviLwDzfpwcOS__fIpj-PM25FJIHMJ6m1D3_RyZSg/s320/IMG_3973.JPG" /></a><br />
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