http://3homeschoolers.edublogs.org Ripped from the headlines of our homeschooling days! Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:08:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow! What a month! We've had some pretty serious health issues to deal with this month, hence our conspicuous lack of posting! My oldest was diagnosed with seizure disorder/epilepsy. Fortunately, it appears to be an extremely mild case, and his MRI did not show any abnormalities in terms of tumors or ... http://3homeschoolers.edublogs.org/2008/04/11/41108/ Today we have a Personal Safety Workshop (RADKids), and then an outside Spanish class this afternoon. http://3homeschoolers.edublogs.org/2008/03/11/31108/ I'm going to try posting a little something each day (okay, at least weekly) about things we've done.  We actually do a lot and have so many outside classes that keeping up a blog to chronicle everything is hard. But I want to capture the flavor of all the fun ... http://3homeschoolers.edublogs.org/2008/03/10/31008/ Has it really been seven months since we've written anything? Well, I suppose we've been somewhat busy! In that time we: Adopted a sibling group of two children Took two trips across five states and back each time Have gone on field trips like: A professional baseball game The Monterey Bay Aquarium Still ... http://3homeschoolers.edublogs.org/2007/11/01/playing-catch-up/ Sorry we haven't been writing! We've been to busy enjoying the gorgeous weather & doing lots of fun stuff! One fun thing we've done is going to a huuuuge trampoline "theatre". It's got three "stages" and you can do all sorts of neat stuff! We've been going to a ... http://3homeschoolers.edublogs.org/2007/03/28/jump-sky-high/ If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area & are a homeschooling family of color, consider joining Bay Area Multicultural Homeschool Educators (BAM-HE): This group exists to provide support and resources to families of color who homeschool in the Bay Area. The vision for this group is that families of ... http://3homeschoolers.edublogs.org/2007/03/23/multicultural-homeschoolers-of-the-bay-area-unite/ I am teaching a knitting camp this week & my son is tagging along for the ride.  He worked on his scarf for his grandmother today.  Here's a picture of the progress. http://3homeschoolers.edublogs.org/2006/07/17/knitting-camp/ My son has repeatedly asked to do more sewing, and today we sorted through my fabric box & he chose fabric for a basic pillow. He stuffed it and I handstitched the closure. Here is the finished project. He is over the moon with delight! He's up ... http://3homeschoolers.edublogs.org/2006/07/11/more-sewing/ Stumbled across a great program today called How It's Made. During one of the shorts, it mentioned photosynthesis, so we took the opportunity to extend our learning by mining a gem from this site. http://3homeschoolers.edublogs.org/2006/07/10/photosynthesis/ I'm an avid knitter. For my son's birthday earlier this week, I knitted him a light sweater. I had to sew in a zipper. My son already knits, having learned in Kindergarten. Today he expressed interest in sewing. He made two fairly straight lines and ... http://3homeschoolers.edublogs.org/2006/07/05/sewing/