Strong Medicine

What an impressive site. I visited My Strong Medicine, a blog of a nursing professional, among other things. I love his post titled, “Hi, I’m the nurse. We’ve never met.” Read it. I applaud his style and enthusiasm. Thank you for posting this.
He mentioned something in another post. Here’s the quote:
It’s OK to forget, it’s [...]

Leaf it to Maine!

Maine has a new foliage website. It offers foliage reports for the entire state during the fall season. It’s great for homeschoolers, because the department of conservation has some tree and foliage information and education. Maine’s such a neat place to live.
Visit the site here: http://www.maine.gov/doc/foliage/

What is this blog about? Why am I blogging?

I like blogging. I am hoping to one day have my blog be an active one, where more people actually comment and my posts are really interesting. Until then, why the heck am I blogging? I mean, is there anybody out there? Well…I know that there are people out there. Since the new address, my [...]

Wired

Today, we found ourselves at the Wire Bridge in New Portland, Maine.  Now, that was cool. Down by the wire bridge there’s a picnic area and beach. The kids played in the water and Kim and I just chilled.

Fort Knox, Penobscot Narrows Bridge

We went to the Penobscot Narrows Bridge at Fort Knox, Bucksport. What a treasure!  We had fun running around the Fort

Summer Camps

Every summer, our kids get to go to summer camps. We consider it part of the learning experiences in our home school. It’s not the kind of camp where you stay overnight – rather, it’s the kind that you go for the day and sleep at home, then return the next day for about a [...]

The day’s not over either

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This week was full of field trips for homeschooling. The first was the Wistlestop Trail in Farmington, (part of the Jay Farmington Rail Trail) where Sally, Kim and Raylene got all the kids together to walk and walk and walk. They say a really fuzzy wooly bear caterpillar [...]

Times tables in an hour? Yep!

We found an excellent way to get the kids to memorize times tables (numbers 6-9). Trigger Memory Systems has a product called Times Tales. It uses a set of fantastic, simple visual mnemonic stories to get them to remember the most difficult to memorize in multiplication. We were amazed that you could actually get those [...]

Lundi helps with Liam

Lundi is such a good helper – especially when it comes to Liam. Home-schooling is always in our minds, but when Liam was fussin’ and Lundi was doing 23 pages of school – she wanted to do something. She swept him up in her lap and they got busy on the schoolwork. Lundi helped Liam [...]

Adventure with a luna moth

Some things just happen at the right time.
Harrison is going to a wonderful place called Bug Camp – headed by Anne Mallet. She does wonders getting kids bug-brave. Butterflies, caterpillars, earwigs, worms, beetles, lady bugs, spiders, gliders and whatever bug you want…for three days the kids get their fill of creepy crawly – and they [...]