tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72346474711659007432024-03-19T01:36:55.969-06:00Happiness Is HomeschoolingHere are highlights of our homeschooling experience for our long-distance friends and family, and anyone else who can gain ideas from them. I try to focus on the fun we have while we learn together, since homeschooling can be HARD. These pictures remind me why I do it. Here I focus on history, literature, science and art. My kids are ages 8, 6 and 2 so our activities are geared to that group. Hope these ideas help you in your homeschooling adventures!Chad, Eva, Sophia and Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16396104867855009505noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7234647471165900743.post-1767567475923393752015-01-17T20:35:00.001-07:002015-01-17T22:10:10.656-07:00"Life is Either a Daring Adventure or Nothing":Getting to Know Helen Keller<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched- </div>
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This quote sums up how I feel when I have meaningful teaching moments with my children. Trust me- not every moment is like this. Like I told my son today when he was asking me about Lucky Charms: "It can't all be marshmallows." Life isn't all marshmallows either. But there are enough "marshmallow" in there to make life sweet. And that's how I felt as I watched my kids finish up their unit on Helen Keller. My pictures try to capture these incredible moments, but really these beautiful, precious events cannot really be seen...they are felt. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">It's the feeling I got when their eyes lit up as they punched their own names out in "braille." It's the feeling I got when my daughter, completely on her own, decided to spell the name "Helen" too- what a sweet way to remember that great hero! And it's the feeling I enjoyed when my daughter showed me some sign language and said "You and I are this...best friends." </span><br />
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It's that proud-mama feeling when I see them diving into a project, EXCITED to learn and create. This zest for life is the epitome of who Helen Keller was and continues as her legacy. I expect my little ones are like her, a bit "too active" at times for society. They can be rascals! But, like her, they also enjoy this world in free-spirited ways, ways I am still trying to learn.</div>
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I am so blessed I have every day to do that- to learn with them. </div>
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"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."-Helen Keller</div>
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"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."-Helen Keller</div>
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"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do something I can do." -Helen Keller </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Both an exquisite student and teacher, it's no wonder she said things that speak to the heart of this </span><span style="text-align: center;">homeschooling mommy!</span> </div>
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I hope my children and I remember that there are NO LIMITS beyond OUR OWN MIND. With a good teacher, friend, and faith we can do ANYTHING and become our BEST selves. I saw that in the many fascinating accomplishments of my own "handicapped" father. I've learned of it from the amazing life of Helen Keller. And I see it every day through the milestones of my own busy special needs children. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." Anyone enjoying their young children is definitely in the middle of a daring adventure. So don't just see it or touch it, FEEL these moments with your heart.<br />
Love, Eva Chad, Eva, Sophia and Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16396104867855009505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7234647471165900743.post-69247473940635498062014-10-17T01:27:00.002-06:002014-10-17T01:27:35.627-06:00"Life Is Pure Adventure"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been a while! Time flies and the sweethearts are growing along with it. I am simultaneously hurrying from one adventure with them to another while also trying to slow down and breathe in each precious moment with them. I can relate to the spinning feeling of the homemade tornadoes! <br />
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I noticed the following quote on my calender. It's been there all month but I finally saw it and absorbed it today:<br />
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"Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art."</div>
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-Maya Angelou</div>
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That sums up quite nicely why I can't help but get out the camera each day, even as we do things that probably seem so simple to others. I don't see homeschooling as mundane or boring. I see each learning moment, each frame with my kids as art. Teaching them gives me scenes full of wonder as I look at the world through their eyes...with amazement...and excitement. The world has magic and adventure.<br />
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I see them and their expressions and I am reminded of how I want to see the world, new and amazing...<br />
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Here are some pictures from today's adventures. The pictures may look redundant to some but I see the sparkle and joy changing in their faces like a ripple from second to second as they watch their own glitter-filled tornadoes spin...<br />
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There are still moments as a woman where I wish I was doing "more." I have songs not yet sung and books not yet written. And maybe some distant day it will be the right season for those adventures. Too often I realize it's been one day too may since I showered and I still haven't gone in and had my hair trimmed like I planned or cleaned my house like I planned...but I have done so many better things that I couldn't have planned. Because you can't plan a perfect, precious moment with a child. You just have to be there, present, to catch it.<br />
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Right now, in these crisp afternoons of wind blown leaves and resilient sun, I choose to dedicate myself to the most captivating audience I could ask for- my children. Because THEY. CAPTIVATE. ME. I never regret a moment spent trying to open the world to my children. I give them all I have and I do so willingly and genuinely, because it's what they deserve. It makes life more vivid and real for all of us. It expands the capacity we have to enjoy this incredible life.<br />
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In finding the quote I did today I was led to another:<br />
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"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."</div>
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I believe that by trying to reach my children's hearts we will reach the stars together.</div>
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Love, Eva</div>
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We decided to keep things simple for Pioneer Day this year, doing some activities at home that would take us back in time. I picked up some great sling shots at scout camp, so the kids played with these for hours! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUwSAi1glj4iRywU9zLMCa2c_Y-FrwYTHaOMd7lO0gBzfnKoGjLf6ZcgLE-ETutvouNeU29GfNONnaobURm1e93xWWWoj26QBW-mjBQ81YzHdbtaIhEmRczYCiKvv8G7xlg31prxJWTK8/s1600/IMG_1034.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUwSAi1glj4iRywU9zLMCa2c_Y-FrwYTHaOMd7lO0gBzfnKoGjLf6ZcgLE-ETutvouNeU29GfNONnaobURm1e93xWWWoj26QBW-mjBQ81YzHdbtaIhEmRczYCiKvv8G7xlg31prxJWTK8/s1600/IMG_1034.JPG" height="426" width="640" /></a></div>
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I know my Grandfather used a sling shot to get squirrels growing up. My kids couldn't hit a squirrel yet, but they are getting pretty good! We just set up plastic bottles for them to knock over and hung some pizza tins to aim at. </div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">They loved seeing the bottles get knocked over and the marks their pebbles made in the tin. </span></div>
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For breakfast we made "Pioneer Pancakes" or Johnny Cakes, from a recipe I found online. I love doing math while cooking. It's so much more fun to do fractions when you get to eat the things you are measuring! I picked up a manual hand held mixer at an antique shop on 25th last week, so that was fun for the kids to use too. </div>
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Sophia measured out the Johnny Cakes and we made some hard-boiled eggs to go with breakfast too. </div>
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The kids wanted to draw in the flour, so I said "Sure, but let's do some spelling words first."</div>
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After that Michael made a self-portrait of me and a snake drawing! </div>
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It's so great to let them get their hands dirty and use their own creativity!</div>
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After we enjoyed the Johnny Cakes we worked on making Corn Husk Dolls. I found some simple instructions online and we went to town!</div>
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Michael made his a boy by cutting the skirt in half and then tying it into two separate legs. </div>
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Sophia personalized hers by adding "hair." I was really surprised how much they BOTH enjoyed doing this old-fashioned craft. We will definitely be making more of these dolls- maybe even a whole family!</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">We did some more pioneer cooking with the corn we got the husks from, and made some simple cobbler too. I plan on doing this all outdoors next time, but we baby-step here so it was nice to experiment inside before we hit the dutch ovens and camp fires.</span></div>
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To top it all off we took a trip to Apple Junction in Willard to get some more old-fashioned treats. I didn't take a picture of the lemon drops we bought, but we saw way more here than I wanted to take pictures of since there were a lot of people around. There are old-fashioned lanterns and hats here, as well as all sorts of jams and jellies to enjoy! I highly recommend going!</div>
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We enjoyed some ice cream with Grandma!</div>
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For bedtime we read stories about the pioneers and watched some video clips showing pioneer life. Sophia is convinced she wants to live on a farm now. I have to agree that the idea is sounding more and more appealing to me too. I hope these ideas will help motivate you to put a little more Pioneer in your Pioneer Day Weekend! We had so much fun even though we mostly stayed home and didn't attend any of the big community events. </div>
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One other outing I know we will make time for this weekend is something we did Memorial Day weekend, and that's visit the graves of some of the pioneers. There are many in the Ogden cemetery near the west side that have a 'Faith In Every Footstep" seal on the headstone.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">It's amazing to think that some of the pioneers that helped establish the roots of our state are buried here in our own town. This is again a simple, but meaningful activity to make Pioneer day and weekend one to remember.</span><br />
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I know we all learned something and made some great memories together today. Homeschooling is worth it- I see that when I look back at the photos of what we are doing and see my children's glowing faces. They are having experiences they couldn't have any other way. And I'm helping make that happen. Homeschooling is HARD so when you have a good day, you've got to pat yourself on the back! That's what this post was. We will see what tomorrow brings though! Happy Pioneer Day!</div>
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Love, Eva</div>
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More patriotic pics coming! Love, Eva</div>
Chad, Eva, Sophia and Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16396104867855009505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7234647471165900743.post-9396316383848527872014-07-03T14:34:00.001-06:002014-07-03T14:34:19.955-06:00Flag Day Our Way<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Flag day was all about red, white and blue & learning about our flag.</div>
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We looked at a great library book that gave the history of our flag.</div>
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It was fun to see all the variations it used to have.</div>
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We saw people holding the flag up during wars and recognized the Civil War uniform.</div>
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My dad was a Civil War Reenactor and they even found a Bowie knife in the book </div>
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We talked about the importance of the flag, why it was 50 stars and 13 stripes, and why it never touches the ground.</div>
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Then we had a lot of fun with red, white and blue flexible glow sticks!!!! And that was pretty much it, but we learned a lot and had a lot of fun. The shapes they made got cooler and cooler...Enjoy! Love, Eva</div>
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<br />Chad, Eva, Sophia and Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16396104867855009505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7234647471165900743.post-30413496939080444432014-06-27T23:13:00.002-06:002014-06-27T23:15:18.488-06:00There's No Place Like HomeLast night I was blessed to stay up till 10, snuggling in bed with my kids as I read The Wizard of Oz to them. Tonight we were up again doing the same. Every time I tried to stop, they kept asking for more. Michael would say "Just 2 more chapters, Mommy. Just 20 more pages. This is my FAV-orite book." Too cute. We've only read 20 pages!<br />
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The plan is to read the whole book, possibly have a Wizard of Oz themed party with other homeschooling friends, and definitely go to Terrace Plaza Playhouse to see their production of it next month! SUPER excited about that. <br />
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Tonight though as we were reading I came across a passage that brought tears to my eyes. In the scene Dorothy and the Scarecrow have just met and they are asking about each other's pasts. Dorothy reveals that the home she comes from isn't nearly as beautiful as the Land of Oz, but all barren instead. Still, she desperately wishes to return to Kansas anyway. When the Scarecrow doesn't understand why she gives him this beautiful answer:<br />
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"No matter how dreary and grey our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home."<br />
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Then my kids and I had a beautiful discussion about that phrase, "There's no place like home". Hearing their young voices explain that after a long day they just want to be in their own room, in their own bed was so special. And it helped me realize again, which I need, why we are doing this. Why we are taking the sometimes more stressful, but always worth it, path of homeschooling. This road, like Dorothy's, is one of discovery, twists and turns, and beauty that brings out family closer together.<br />
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I loved that I could take the moment to expand the topic to our heavenly homes too, reminding them that even though we like this place there is another home we come from which we will be very happy to return to someday. A place even more Grand than the Emerald City, with all our families. This tied right in with our Devotional time today (found on today's www.ldslittleones.blogspot.com post.)<br />
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I love that I know I can stay up too late reading great books to my kids all year long. I love that I am the one teaching them and experiencing all of this learning with them. Most of all, I'm glad we all agree that "There's no place like home."<br />
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Love,<br />
Eva<br />
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Chad, Eva, Sophia and Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16396104867855009505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7234647471165900743.post-1955014845435423872014-06-27T01:25:00.000-06:002014-06-27T01:25:14.692-06:00Exceeding ExpectationsI am SO excited to have a little corner of the internet to share my thoughts, pictures and ideas regarding homeschooling. It is such a blessing to be taking this journey right now. It can be super stressful. It's slightly unexpected. If three years ago someone had told me I would be embarking on this work, I don't know that I would have believed them. But it's the right thing for us all right now, in this precious season of growth.<br />
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I don't know for certain how long I will be on it. I don't know that I am the best teacher for it. But I'm telling myself that I am every day. I whisper it gently and try to believe it when I see my kids struggling. I softly tell myself that I love my kids more than anyone. That I pray for them and I'm in tune to their needs more than anyone. That I would do anything to help them learn and thrive. And all these things DO make me more than qualified to teach them and shape them. And what little treasures, seriously, TREASURES they are! I would equate them to a precious jewel you find in the wild, in a cavern still messy with dirt but beautiful in its rawness and valuable all the same.<br />
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It's funny how I can see the things we do and sometimes feel like it wasn't enough. Yet, if they came home from another school and said they had done these things I would be really impressed. So here's to breaking free from giving others more credit than we give ourselves. To seeing the tremendous value in our children and ourselves. <br />
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"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules (and loves) the world..."<br />
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Love,<br />
EvaChad, Eva, Sophia and Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16396104867855009505noreply@blogger.com0