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Rod and Staff is a great curriculum and I use some of their courses in our school.  I was very excited to see they are having a spring sale!  Save 10% off on curriculum until April 15th.

Now that we have a break in the cold weather hubby decided to take the older kids for a nature walk!  The -25C windchill’s we’ve had the last few weeks are just to cold for little ones.  Well it’s to cold for ME to! They had a wonderful time looking at the deer and finding different tracks.  Afterward it was time for hot chocolate!

It’s a big change from our fall nature walk you can also see one of our winter walks from last winter.

This is a sulfur spring, it’s a really interesting nature study area.  In the summer because of the sulfur water bugs don’t lay their eggs there.  It also runs year round with out freezing.

Kid’s found some mouse tracks!

A little while ago our dd7 brought hubby a graph she made.  She explained to him it was “the economic collapse”.   This short video clip shares some of the kids thoughts on the current economy.  We’ve been studying the depression on and off for a while and it’s interesting how they see similarity’s.

I just heard i little history about the candy cane, why its colored and shaped the way it is.

The History of the Candy Cane
http://www.noelnoelnoel.com/trad/cand…

Candy cane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_cane

History of the candy cane
http://www.essortment.com/all/history…

Our family has really been enjoying celebrating Advent this year.  In addition to the free Advent devotions and Jesse tree ornaments I posted already, we’ve been using the Advent calendar on DVD 2.

We have also been reading Jotham’s Journey.  I thought at first the chapters might be a little long for our 3 year old, but no even she loves the story.  They can’t wait each day to find out what happens to Jotham next.  I also like how Bible history and scriptures are woven into the story. Has anyone read the other two books in the series?  Are they as good?

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