~Eliana is 28 months~ I have been singing the "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" version of the alphabet to Eliana. Here is how it looks: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T UVW XYZ Sung to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," it …
Chapter 13:In Which Passepartout Recieves a New Proof That Fortune Favors the Brave The rajah rises from the burial pyre – or did he? Who was that, anyway? Vocabulary: pyre, aperature, suppleness, hemp, prostrate, spectre, prodigy, inanimate, resuscitat…
'Very curious, very curious," said Passepartout to himself. 'I see it is by no means useless to travel if a man wants to see something new.' Chapter 9: In Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove Propitious to the Designs of Philea…
This week, we have been learning about the four different kinds of "head-footed" animals, the octopus, the squid, the nautilus, and the cuttlefish, which are all cephalopods. We learned how they swim (by jet propulsion), what they eat, what kinds o…
Chapter 5: In which a New Species of Funds, Unknown to the Moneyed Men, Appears on 'Change. Phileas Fogg becomes quite a news sensation with people all over England wagering for and against him in his attempt to go around the world in eighty days. …
~Eliana is 27 months~ I didn't have any activities planned for Tot School this week. I did manage to catch her playing with the dressing bear puzzle. And we did an experiment to see some raisins dance. Check out Leslie's post, called Dancing Rais…
We decided to go with The Whole Story Version of Around the world in 80 Days . The Whole Story series has a unique documentary approach: Complete, unabridged text as origianlly published. Generously annotated with hundreds of extended captio…
Inspired by New Harvest Homestead , my goal is to do at least one thing a week to put food by, whether it is dehydrating, canning, freezing or packing buckets for food storage. This week I choose to make strawberry jam. I used: 5 lbs fresh strawberries 7-8 cu…
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