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This is just a convenient spot for me to jot down the notably educational things that Henry and I have done together. I can look back and know that we didn't just fritter away our days playing World of Warcraft together -- which is educational itself, but one does need some variety ;-)

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nice outing

February 24, 2010 at 10:02 pm · Filed under Blog, Homeschooling

I’m pretty worn out now, but I felt well enough this morning to go on an outing with Henry. We went to the MOPA in Balboa Park and looked at the beautiful photos, and then walked through the Botanical Building, and then through the Timken Gallery. I love the Timken especially much; I’ve been visiting it ever since I was a little kid and I just love to say hi to my favorite paintings. And then Henry treated me to lunch at In-N-Out!

Boy among the plants:

Botanical Building seen through the fancy railing at the Timken:

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The Wiz

January 29, 2009 at 2:36 pm · Filed under Blog, Homeschooling

Tuesday was Henry’s school performance of The Wiz! Henry played the Tinman, and he was just wonderful, singing and dancing and acting and everything! I was so proud! The whole cast did just great. Henry’s good friends played all the lead roles, and you could tell they were all having a lot of fun together. Tawni was the Wiz, Natalia was Dorothy (she was terribly ill with a fever and sore throat, poor thing), Sam was the Lion and Sierra was the Scarecrow. I forgot to take my camera, but I hope to get some photos from *someone* eventually… until then, here’s a photo of Henry in costume. We decorated the shoes and pants with chrome duct tape, the hat was a dollar at Target right before New Year’s Eve, and he has a glittery shirt on under the jacket. For the performance he skipped the hat but had really great make-up — silver face paint and dark lips and a drawn-on jaw hinge.

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Dover Sampler

August 2, 2008 at 10:35 am · Filed under Blog, Books, Homeschooling

I’ve been in love with Dover Publications since I was a little kid. The coloring books! The cheap reprints of classics! The antique needlework guides! The cut-and-makes! The paper dolls, oh, the paper dolls! I just found out that Dover has an online sampler service. Just give them your email address, and every week you get a link to a webpage full of sample book pages to download and print out. Today I got two coloring pages, one from a stained glass coloring book and another from “Art Masterpieces to Color”. If I had a color printer, I could have printed out a page of post-impressionist postcards and a page of fruit-crate labels. And if I liked Tom Tierney I could have printed a page of one of his paper doll books. There are also pages from a book of poetry, a book of mazes, a book of butterfly crafts, etc., etc.

Go here to sign up! http://www.doverpublications.com/sampler/

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Scarecrow of Oz, complete!

February 20, 2008 at 11:42 am · Filed under Audiobooks, Blog, Homeschooling

LibriVox’s full-cast reading of The Scarecrow of Oz is complete and ready for download! As usual, our recording is public domain, free and legal to download and share, of course. Every character is read by a different voice, by readers all around the world, and the narration is done by still more readers. Scott Sherris coordinated this massive project and did all the pasting-together of parts, a huge job. I did a few chapters of narration, and Henry took part as Button-Bright. Hint: Chapter 8 is Button-Bright’s first appearance ;-)

http://librivox.org/scarecrow-of-oz-by-l-frank-baum/

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Feeling better!

February 6, 2008 at 6:47 pm · Filed under Blog, Homeschooling

Feeling much, much better today! I still have The Cough, and probably will for some time, but I had enough energy to do the grocery shopping today and I didn’t get a headache in the afternoon, YAY!

Henry had his weekly private Kung Fu lesson this afternoon, and I got a few photos of him and his teacher, Miss Edwards. Here’s one:

He loves Kung Fu! He’s at a group class right now. His school lets him attend as many group classes as he wants, plus there’s a special group class just for his level once a week.

Henry baked a cheesecake today. We’re going to try it out when he gets home :)

edit: Henry’s cheesecake was delicious. The three of us ate half of it in one night, and he took the other half to share with his dad!

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Henry blogged!

April 26, 2007 at 8:18 pm · Filed under Blog, Homeschooling

Henry made a blog post, YAY!
http://spaceman3000.blogspot.com/2007/04/my-fable.html

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Civil War

March 10, 2007 at 5:40 pm · Filed under Blog, Homeschooling

Henry and I went to a Civil War reenactment today! It was really great. We watched two battles and looked at all kinds of things. Here’s a website: http://www.goldcoastfestivals.com/civilwar/civilwarpg.htm

I took a million pictures but I’m too tired to dump them out of my camera.

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