Today we dressed for Halloween, and spoke of the “Day of the Dead” celebrated in Mexico. We learned that Halloween is a holiday that celebrates the time of the year when the curtain between the worlds of the living and the dead is at its thinnest point, so people have believed that the spirit world [...]
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Day 12: October 30, 2009
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Day 6: October 9, 2009
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Today we celebrated Zoe’s 6th Birthday with a visit from her Mom, Tony, who shared pictures of Zoe in each of her six years thus far. We sang our birthday song below, and paused to share photos and memories of Zoe.
We move round the circle like the moon, the moon, the moon, and sun
We move [...]
Week 29, Day 58: May 8, 2009
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Today we began our study of base 10 numbers and discussed ones, tens Here we go round the Maypole High, Maypole High, Maypole High Here we go round the Maypole High, Hold Colored Ribbons High! Laddies and lassies go skipping by, skipping by, skipping by Laddies and lassies go skipping by, let colored ribbons [...]
Week 28, Day 56: May 1, 2009
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Happy May Day!
Today we began our day with a celebration of Sebastian’s birthday with fresh out-of-the-oven blueberry cobbler. (Thank you, Lauren!) We prepared our Maypole, by digging a hole and installing a 18” 1 and 3/4” pipe for our 10 foot Maypole. Friends chose ribbons for our dance, and we decorated the top of the [...]
Week 8 (Feb. 5-8)
Posted in Special Days, Spirit Walk, books, curriculum on February 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to a delayed opening, Liam and I were able to make fresh dumplings (more like whole wheat clazones) filled with yummy vegies for February 7th, and we ate them for luck for our upcoming year. We read Tenzin’s Deer by Barbara Soros (Thank you Tony) about a boy who nurses a deer back to health by [...]
Week 7 (January 29-Feb. 1)
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Special Days, curriculum on February 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With the upcoming Lunar New Year (This year, the Chinese New Year and the Tibetan New Year fall on the same day, February 7: The year of the rat.), we have been reading stories about dragons (friendly and a sign of good luck in Chinese culture) and the customs associated with the New Year. This [...]
