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| This is Doodles' report on spiders. |
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| Here is Bug's report on basilisks. |
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| Bug worked on a shadow box project for his co-op history class. |
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| Here is the finished product. |
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| Time for the annual gingerbread house construction and decorating. Bug instructs us on how we should do it. |
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| Doodles points out important information. |
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| Here I am...just showing everyone what the house "should" look like. |
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| Baby Girl and Daddy check out the icing. |
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| Our house |
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| We started Book 2 of the Harry Potter series |
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| Doodles set the table for our "dinner party" |
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| Bug is using this book for part of his science studies. |
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| Bug is working on science. |
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| Bug learned how to use a protractor to draw and measure angles. |
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| We made pumpkin juice as part of our Harry Potter unit study. |
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| We studied beetles. |
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| We learned about mandrakes in Herbology class. |
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| Bug is hard at work on science. |
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| Bug decided to see if he could get a drink through a long connection of straws. |
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| It worked! |
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| Bug did an experiment to illustrate how water changes landforms over time. |
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| Bug started reading Book One of The Kane Chronicles |
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| My hubby brought these home. Someone gave him these acorns that came from the northern part of the United States. I added them to our nature table. |
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| Bug did a science experiment to illustrate erosion. |
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| Zoe wants to do school, too! |
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| Another science experiment |
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| Halloween: Walter White (Breaking Bad), Sugar Skull (Day of the Dead), and Flower Fairy |
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| My Sugar Skull makeup |
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| Bug on Halloween |
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| Baby Girl's ABC "work" to go with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom |
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| As part of our Harry Potter unit study, we learned about snow vs. sleet vs. freezing rain. |
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| We read about Christmas traditions since they celebrated Christmas in The Sorcerer's Stone. |
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| We also drank hot chocolate for our "Christmas" celebration. |
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| Bug is studying earth science, and we looked at how the earth "bulges" at the equator. |
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| Then we did this activity to see why it does. |
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| Doodles wrote this paper about goblins for her "Care and Feeding of Magical Creatures" class in our Harry Potter study. |
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| Bug is using this book for science. |
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| Bug wrote his creature paper about unicorns. |
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| Our composer for this month |
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| Bug did this science activity to learn about earth's axis. |
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| Bug is currently reading Book Four of the Percy Jackson series. |
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| Clip art from one of Doodles' forensic science books |
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| This is Bug's sketch of a unicorn for his research paper. |
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| This is Doodles' "quick essay" comparing Voldemort to Satan. |
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| Bug's eggs for a science activity to demonstrate earth's movement |
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| We learned about squids as part of our Harry Potter study. |
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| More about squids |
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| We worked on logic puzzles as part of our Harry Potter unit. |
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| Baby Girl's current reading book. We are really loving Sonlight P3/4. |
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| Bug learned about circles in math this week. |
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| He enjoyed using his compass. |
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| We finished reading The Sorcerer's Stone and watched the movie. Then we enjoyed this delicious butterbeer! |
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