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I’m Cashing In!

It’s two years old but there’s no expiration date on it.

Posted bykaatDecember 14, 2014Posted inarts/crafts (children's)Leave a comment on I’m Cashing In!

Junco

The juncos have arrived from up north. This morning we were all still in bed when there was a loud rap against our bedroom window pane. I jumped out of bed, knowing it was a bird that had just collided with the glass. I looked out and there, among the flock of juncos grazing in […]

Posted bykaatDecember 13, 2014December 13, 2014Posted innatural worldLeave a comment on Junco

No Sharks in the Water

I dropped off the homeschool letter at the Superintendent’s office. They’ve been very supportive, and almost everything I asked for – if Amie can keep coming to school for out-of-hours and even in-hour classes, if she can keep using the online platforms for math and typing, etc. – they’ve given us. So now it was […]

Posted bykaatDecember 12, 2014December 12, 2014Posted inbooks (children's), books (grownups'), homeschool1 Comment on No Sharks in the Water

We’re Going to Homeschool

We decided – Amie, DH and I – to homeschool Amie for the coming semester and probably also fifth grade. We love the school she is going to at present. It’s a smallish (ca. 400 kids) neighborhood K-5 school where kindness really matters, where the teachers are deeply caring and the staff a charm. Amie […]

Posted bykaatDecember 10, 2014December 10, 2014Posted inchild development, child's play, homeschool1 Comment on We’re Going to Homeschool

Sun Motions

This is a cool tool. Put yourself on the north pole, or at, say, 74.8 degrees N latitude. Is this nature study? I’ve rediscovered Tim Morton’s books on ecology, among them Ecology without Nature and The Ecological Thought, where he introduces the concept of dark ecology as a means of expressing the “irony, ugliness, and […]

Posted bykaatDecember 5, 2014Posted infuture worries, nature study, pain, illness, death, poetryLeave a comment on Sun Motions

Rotten Gifts

People have begun dropping off their rotten pumpkins! We have a couple of gigantic ones and quite a horde of little ones in the pile already. Wait… Someone couldn’t wait to enjoy the feast.

Posted bykaatDecember 1, 2014December 2, 2014Posted incompost, compost tea, extract, natural worldLeave a comment on Rotten Gifts

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