Monday, May 18, 2009

Where does the time go..Home schooling adventure!


I should have been blogging like mad these last few months as I have made so many different journeys and had some incredeible adventures. Alexs home schooling was nothing like I thought it would be, I saw clogs and kitchen tables, instead we had a real school building filled with 200 children who could not wait to get to school to be taught by teachers who could wait to teach. Alex attends Leaves of Learning 4 days a week you can read about them at http://www.leavesoflearning.org . This year we built an edible great wall of china(talk about recycling), wrote a book that has been entered in a national childrens writing contest, his teacher is also working on getting it published. There were hikes every week into the woods to learn about nature, there were 5 history classes that he could not get enough of...whew..what a happy year! The picture is of Alex and some of his classmates selling plants and soda at the schools garage sale fundraiser.

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Politics and Fido

...a Latin name meaning "I am faithful." As such it is a terrific name for the average protective and loyal family dog. However, it gets its popularity from a celebrity tie-in. Apparently, Abraham Lincoln, a largely self-educated but very erudite man, named his dog Fido. Americans followed suit in droves, putting the dog name Fido firmly in the top 20 names. Lincoln’s choice of Fido for his dog’s name was perfectly logical. Fido is the Latin for faithful, which when dealing with any pet dog is entirely appropriate