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Swimming! Hooray!

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My son starts swimming lessons today! This is big news for a boy who until recently really, really, really (did I mention really?) hated water! He would play in the sink, like most kids, but would never really play in a sprinkler or anything like most kids love to do.
As a baby, we would [...]

More Cypering!

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Today we tried “the wheels” where you have one circle inside another. You line them up and write your code. The other person has to know what to set their wheels to for this to work. It was a little more complex, so it’s taking a bit of work to get my [...]

Ode-cay

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We had a great time today…We went to the library fountain again. Then after some grocery shopping (my son got a kid-sized cart at Whole Foods), we did some code-work from Messages in Code. Dad was the recipient of the first code & after a hint as to what the tube thing was, [...]

More Library!

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We had a great time at the library today! We hung out by the huge aquarium (one huge wall!) and afterward, our son played out front in the plaza at the water area for kids.
We got a few secret code books for my son & his best friend (also homeschooled) to write to each [...]

Business As Usual…

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We homeschool all year around. However, during the summer we do more library visits and outdoorsy things. My mom’s best friend is an Early Childhood Educator and she wants to have some “project dates” during the summer, where she & my mom will come down (they live 50 miles north). She wants [...]