Author Archives: Kay Pelham

Vasco, Pizarro, Leonardo, Marco, Martin and John

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Kay Pelham

I best get on with this 6 week review now that we’ve finished our 8th week of school. I’ll begin with our journeys through British, American and World History. This is our third year reading Our Island Story by H.E. … Continue reading →

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Math Wars

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Kay Pelham

Before I continue with the beautiful and glowing reports of our History, Geography, Literature readings and Art and Music studies as promised in the last post, I’m going to share the hardest battle we’ve have this school term. (Funny that … Continue reading →

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I’m back and a Six Week Report

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Kay Pelham

I thought I would get back in the saddle here by posting a report about our first six weeks of “third grade.” We’ve done lots of reading and learning. Our new thing this year was adding Science, while continuing Nature … Continue reading →

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Still here

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Kay Pelham

We’ve been traveling and traveling. We are home now. And that is a good thing. At some point I’ll post some pics and commentary of places that we’ve visited on our journeys. Right now I’m settling back into home life … Continue reading →

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Going underground

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Kay Pelham

We visited this cave which included an underground lake earlier this month. As soon as we entered, James kept saying, “This is cool. This is so cool.” (and he didn’t mean the temp which was about 57 degrees) We learned … Continue reading →

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Movies and the real world

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Kay Pelham

We watched The Patriot tonight. Certainly an intense and bloody movie that mom had to turn her head away from a time or two. Very sad. In one scene Gabriel, the oldest son of Benjamin Martin (the Mel Gibson character), … Continue reading →

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Happy

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Kay Pelham

This song makes me happy. “Don’t worry that it’s not good enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing…Sing a song.”

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The Voice

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Kay Pelham

Woke up thinking about this song this morning. Always feel sad about Karen Carpenter and what a loss to the vocal world when she died. But then again, thanks to recordings, her voice isn’t too far away. I was just … Continue reading →

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Cool sunset…

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Kay Pelham

….don’t you think?

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June 23, 2001 – My own apron

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Kay Pelham

This is installment two of remembrances of 10 years ago. Here is exciting installment one. On this day 10 years ago Jack had his first visit to my family’s farm about 70 miles from the big city. We drove out … Continue reading →

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