Monthly Archives: October 2006

061027 Friday

* went for a bike ride* talked about carbon emissions from plane travel, and how we can use Greenfleet to offset carbon emissions. I checked using the Greenfleet Tree Totaller last night and it will cost $4.70 to offset the … Continue reading

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061025 Wednesday

* played syllable bingo: first I called and she found them on her board/s, then she called. She extended it while calling so that she was reading blends from the posters on the wall as well as the list of … Continue reading

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061024 Tuesday

* watched ABC schools’ TV: BTN (drought package, Korea kids, Point Nepean, kids’ training, Mars); Our History (Isolated Schooling)* reading: mental “weightlifting” to improve her visual memory* keyboard practice* gardening* drawing: used How To Draw Really Cool Things (or whatever … Continue reading

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061023 Monday

* gardening* keyboard practice* homeschooling group pottery lesson 11:00-12:30* went to Margaret’s 1:00-3:00ish while I had a massage* decided not to go to swimming lesson* anniversary dinner @ Belluci’s and Rubee’s; read some of K’s board books to her

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061020 Friday

* keyboard practice* spent most of the morning, on and off, watching our spider weaving an egg case and laying eggs. I found a factsheet on huntsman spiders at the Australian Museum Online site (also another couple of webpages about … Continue reading

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061019 Thursday

* independent reading: Green Eggs and Ham. She read it as soon as she woke up (7ish), commenting that she knew something much better than just getting up and going downstairs to watch TV. When she’d finished reading, she said … Continue reading

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061017 Tuesday

* discussed whether she still wanted to do circus training and if not, what she wanted to do instead* keyboard practice* gardening: pruning, weeding, planning what to plant where, talking about “weed” species and how some trees can be weeds … Continue reading

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061016 Monday

* keyboard practice* helped me cook sausages, bacon and scrambled eggs for our not-back-to-school Big Breakfast* made ice cream; talked about similarities/differences with the experiment of making ice cream in a bag full of ice cubes which she tried (unsuccessfully) … Continue reading

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