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Groundhog Day; Shadow Games in the Street, and a Treat! – Homeschooling

February 2, 2009 By Laura 6 Comments

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Happy Groundhog Day!

First of all, we have been meaning to express our appreciation for the commenting that’s been happening here at our blog, FINALLY!!  Who knew a little whining could go such a long way??  I mean, it doesn’t work for our kids, so we’ve been a little surprised. lol.  All we know is that we are having a lot more fun, sharing bits and pieces of our crazy fun life on our blog here, and getting to chat a little bit with all of you who come to ‘visit’ us.  You all have had so much to share with us, with your own  creative ideas, witty humor and kind, encouraging words.  We love it!! So a heartfelt thanks to you all!

Today we thought we would actually share our day, on the same day it all happened. That usually doesn’t happen, because I have too many photos to go through and edit, which takes time, and just blogging it takes another chunk of time.   But it’s nothing a little work-hooky can’t fix. lol.  I was at my computer by late afternoon, as I needed to be. But just not doing what I was supposed to be doing.  But it’s been a fun day we were looking forward to blogging about.

The kids got all of their ‘book and written’ school work done lickity-split today, knowing we had Groundhog Fun on the agenda!  First, we got to searching on the computer,  if Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania there, saw his shadow or not.  As you all know by now, NATURALLY he DID. It’s hard to remember a year when he didn’t, but it seems it has happened twice in the lifetime of our oldest child’s life, in 1999, and 2007. (Does anyone remember if we actually DID get an early spring??)   But it’s been a great winter, so Phil’s shadow wasn’t going to ruin OUR day!  Besides, we have our wood stove!  lol. So we then read a little of the history of Groundhog Day, which like every holiday, has much more to it than people in general realize (or care to know, in some cases, I suppose. lol)  But we can tell you that the groundhog tradition stems from similar beliefs associated with Candlemas Day, and the days of early Christians in Europe.   For centuries the custom was to have the clergy bless candles and distribute them to the people. Even then, it marked a milestone in the winter and the weather that day was important.

As the old English song goes:

If Candlemas be fair and bright,
Come, Winter, have another flight;
If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,
Go Winter, and come not again.

Today, February 2nd, also marks the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord.

Next the kids colored Groundhog coloring pages, while we got some groundhog puppets started to use outdoors.

 

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And then we got outdoors.  It was SUCH a beautifully warm and sunny day for our antics in the street, that it was easy to accept the whole ‘6 more weeks of winter’ thing.

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We know how easily we can fool you….So we will fess up;  Those aren’t real groundhog quadruplets. lol

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Then the kids (and Kid-Daddy)  paired up, and made shadow poses in the street.  One created a shadow pose on the street,  and their partner had to copy it as exactly as they could.

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Then they chased each other’s shadows, and tried to step on someone else’s….

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…and would you believe, NO ONE wiped out on the sand?

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Our Little Shadow Fools, and their groundhog shadow puppets.

We soon came in, made and ate lunch, and read this poem.

And THEN made and ate…..

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….Groundhog Pie!!!

(Made with chocolate pudding in a graham cracker crust shell, pushed up to a little mound, with crumbled Chips Ahoy on top for ‘dirt’, surrounded by some Reddi Whip for snow (melting near our wood stove…lol) and of course…..the Groundhog himself, drawn and colored by Daddy, and taped to a popsicle stick!)

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We hope you had some time to act like fools yourselves today!!  It’s such a silly day, we might as well!

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Colored Ice Castles – Homeschooling Science Experiment

January 27, 2009 By Laura 14 Comments

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This is how home schooling happens a lot in our family:

Someone gets a cool idea they think would be a fun to try, (in this case, that would be me), and we decide to do it. For fun.  So we discuss our plan, start getting stuff together, and as we get to work on the project……….we start to wonder, or predict out loud.

And suddenly it hits me. “Hey!  This is a science experiment!  Yes….this is going to count for science.”

But ‘the lesson’ was not planned for school.  It was just something fun to do.  Curiosities arose that we wanted to explore and experiment with.  We were just LIVING.  Yes . . . . learning often times just happens.

As you can guess by now, that’s exactly what happened with this project.  The kids are always watching the outdoors thermometer through the window of our school room. If it’s below freezing, they like to put a bowl of water out, and check it all day to see how long it took to freeze.  You know…’just for fun.’   So I thought to myself, “Wouldn’t it be fun to fill up all kinds of containers, all different shapes and sizes, and then build an ice castle? “  (and continuing to talk to myself in my head….because a lot of conversation happens with myself up there, I said…) “Hey!!  We could use food coloring and make them COLORED ICE CASTLES!!!!”  Because I am a color freak, I got REAL excited the other day, to tell the kids what we were going to do.

Creating Colored Ice Castles

So we gathered everything we needed, bundled up as best we could, and went out and got to work.

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The kids started filling up all of the containers with hose water.
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And took turns choosing colors, and squeezing drops of food coloring  in.

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When one of them added yellow to the red, the colors intoxicated me…..and I went CrAzY taking photos from then on.

And I love most all of the photos I took.

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So now you’re going to have to see them all. : )

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Because I have little control, when it comes to these kinds of things, you know. : )

Just look at the beautiful colors floating and swirling!

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Oh….it gets better.

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Look at that!!!  The kids started adding color to different containers at the same time, which resulted in lots of outbursts of excitement at the same time…“Look at this one, Daddy!”  “Mama look at these colors together!!  Hurry!”
We were getting dizzy. But it was all good!

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I was having so much fun taking photos.  I just knew they were going to be beautiful.

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Here below, {O and J} swap colors.

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THIS ONE, ABOVE, IS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE!!

Honestly, I get butterflies.

And by this time, I was (incorrectly) thinking that we were going to have the COOLEST TIE-DYE ICE CASTLES!

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Oh Dear….Unexpected Science Experiment Happenings

About now we start to notice that the 2 colors are mixing and changing to one color.

BUMMER!!

No tie-dye ice castles?? I, personally, might have sulked for a moment or 2 over that development and reality check.  But, this is all part of science experiments, and the kids were still excited.  They got me excited again, too.

When I saw all of the multi-colors were gone, I thought “Good thing I took photos!!!”  lol

They still looked vivid and beautiful, all together.

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Now, I did say to the kids at the start, “Let’s try NOT to get food coloring all over our hands. OK?”

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Reality check number 2.  lol

But you know….I love the colors, even all over my children’s faces and hands. I do!!  Even if we’re going out…..going to Mass…where ever. If it doesn’t come off all of the way….OH WELL!!  I think it’s evidence of their creativity!

DIRT is another story!!

Watching, Waiting, and Wondering….For Days

So the next couple of days were annoying, temperature wise.  It kept being a little warmer than it was supposed to be, and the darn water in the containers would not freeze all of the way!!  We knew it needed to be 32 degrees or colder, to freeze. (We’re like Einsteins, huh?  Ha haha!)  But for how long would it need to be that cold?  And how much longer would the BIG containers take, than the small ones?  These are the scientific questions we had, and the things we observed and studied over the next few days.  We knew…..it was taking a lot longer than we ever wanted it to!!

What’s more….we could see the color really settling to the bottom of the containers.

Why, we wondered??  Which led us to what ‘wondering’ always does.  Research!!

The Scientific Explanation

BECAUSE:  Cold water does not allow the molecules of the food coloring to break down as easily….or dissolve.  So, because it could not really ‘mix’ with the water, being a separate element, it all settled. What’s more, the molecules of the food coloring were so big, that they were not able to freeze all of the way.  So the food coloring ended up being pockets of slush, within the frozen water/ice.   It was interesting that the 2 elements were able to separate that much in the end, from being 2 colors swirling around each other, when first added to the water.

By this morning, we were done waiting.  The big containers STILL did not seem solid all of the way through—-but gosh darn it….WE WERE BUILDING OUR CASTLES TODAY!!

The Results

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{S}(on the far right) was excited about the pizza slice container one.  He is also very partial to green, because it is ‘his color‘.  (As triplets, we had a lot of color coding going on when they were babies.)

TA-DAAAA!!!!!!!

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I LOVE this shot of my kids, and their ice creations!!

They had SO much fun doing this!!  So did I!!  So did their Daddy!!

We built it in the front yard, for the world to see. (You know…the ones who happen to drive down our dead-end street. Ha haha!).

Another lesson learned:  We don’t always get what we’re expecting to.  But we learn to love what we DO get.

Because it’s ours.  Because we made it.  Because we created memories together, doing it.
And that makes it all beautiful, to us!

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God’s World News / World News Group – A Newspaper for Your Kids!

January 17, 2009 By Laura 4 Comments

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Hi there Everyone!!

We’ve been wanting to share with our readers, a subscription that we have found our children really, really benefit from.  It’s put out by * ** God’s World News, and there are various titles, for various reading/age/grade levels to fit the level of any child, Pre-K through young teens! We have received it for a number of years, and it has proved to be a valuable and educational news source throughout. It’s a newspaper for kids!!

* UPDATE/Revision:  God’s World News is now: WORLD News Group   – The links in this post (for God’s World News), will still bring you to the correct site, under their new titles. From there, there are individual site links to the newspaper for the proper age range for your child(ren):  God’s Big World/Pre-Schoolers, worldkids/Elementary age, WORLD TEEN/Teenagers
** IMPORTANT NOTE: Although the titles of the newspapers has changed, the high quality content has not! The intent of the newspaper publications, for age appropriate world news, reported in the light of faith, remains unchanged.

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(Is this photo of our boy, reading his newspaper, not a RIOT??!  He often does sit just like this….while reading, at Mass, etc.  It always cracks us up, but he looked especially like a little man, sitting in his chair with his legs crossed, reading his newspaper. Look at his flickering toes. lol)

Our triplet 6 year olds receive God’s Word News-Early Edition (now World Kids).  Our 11 year old receives God’s World News-Top Story (now World Teen).

Our kids benefit from their age-appropriate newspaper-magazines so much, because they ENJOY it so much! They enjoy it so much, because it has SO much to offer! There is a LOT in each edition, and a huge (educational) variety at that.  If you homeschool your kids, we highly recommend this subscription!  If your kids are enrolled in school, we highly recommend this subscription!  : )  This rave review is fueled solely by our family receiving this magazine, and us as parents, consistently seeing what happens with our kids, when they get it into their hands. They get many hours of social studies educational exposure and information from each issue.  All in the name of QUIET for us FUN for them! That’s why we had to tell you all about it…..it just seems like it’s something GREAT for any and all kids!   Read on.

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I don’t know about you, but I want my kids to know what is going on in the world.  They should generally be aware of current events, politics, new-breaking stories, scientific findings, history, etc. But in an age appropriate way!
The problem is, television news, as well as newspaper news, are not geared towards communicating to children.

Naturally, it’s not their mission, as it is all meant to inform adults, and rightly so.  So it’s simply not conveyed in a way all children would understand, nor necessarily be emotionally ready for.

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That’s what we love about this magazine.  In it HIGHLY informative about the world’s news, presented in a way to catch and hold kid’s attention,  and is easily understood, in kids’ terms and ways they can relate to.  It draws them in.  In younger level editions, it’s snippets of info they can read and truly comprehend and retain.   Older kid’s issues are generally the same topics, but with more detail, longer articles and a more in-depth study overall. Then additional stuff. What I love most, is that the contents is delivered in a Christian/Biblical Worldview style.

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But it’s not just serious current events news stories. Each issue is also jam packed with (reading, of course), science, history, geography, weather, funny stories, etc.  And all with LOTS of photos. There are games, experiments, activities and puzzles that strengthen skills such as logic, observation, process of elimination, …. the list goes on. AND on!

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 Beyond the magazine itself, they have a website that has even MORE to supplement each edition.  There are parent/teacher resources, bonus pages to enhance or expand on all the kids have learned, and even quizzes and keys you can use.  There is LOTS at the web site, that is another educational tool all it’s own.

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When our kids are reading their issues, they are so amused by something, or intrigued with something they learned, that they feel compelled to share it with us, or read it to us.  Sometimes, they ask questions, because they want to know more and more. This often launches great discussions to have with your children, that can get as deep as you want, or give you an opportunity to ask them questions, that encourage them to think through concepts, varied opinions, or their own perspectives.  It’s a wonderful tool to help jump-start really good discussions, about often very important topics in the world, with your children.

012_God's-World-News-World-News-Group  For example: Here, {A} is reading about Fidel Castro-how he came to be a dictator, his ways of dictatorship, and all of the effects it has had on his country.

Here’s another  page of Top Story (sorry about the glare. : ):

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Each issue (all editions for all ages) most always has wonderful maps, educational fold-out spreads, and/or pull-out posters, like this one:

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I love also, how these arrivals in our mailbox, bring our kids together too!  They love to share with each other what they are reading, and have discussions of their own about the topic.  They end up laughing together, reading together, learning together, which all means they are simply enjoying more of being ….together!

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If you find yourself remotely intrigued, we encourage you to check out the God’s World News web site. Look around!!  There are peeks inside these subscriptions, and you are also likely able to get a free copy if you request one, to decide for yourself what you think of them!  For us, it’s been just too good of a great thing, NOT to let any parent, or teaching parent, know about this amazing tool. We find it WELL worth the cost of the subscription.  We all know that our kids learn the most, when they are enjoying what they are doing, or enjoying HOW they are learning…anything at all!  The more ways we can find to give them that, the better. Because when they are having fun learning, they want to learn more and more and more.  So we hope you find this newspaper-magazine to be ‘good mail’ in your family.

We’re pretty excited about MANY things we’ve got coming up to share with you on our blog, so come back soon!! In the meantime, if your kids are receiving a subscription, or have a book, or watch a show….that YOU find very valuable, educational, and they really enjoy, please share it with us!  We know there is a wealth of info and resources out there, and what better way than to share it with each other, complete with reviews and gold stars!

We hope you are all enjoying this long weekend!

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Last Frog Released

December 1, 2008 By Laura Leave a Comment

This special day is actually from back on October 25, when {A} released her last frog.  Festivities, other events, and work sort of prevented this from being posted about in a timely manner. Nonetheless, we couldn’t let November end, and get into all of the special times that December holds, without sharing this milestone moment with you.  Especially if you have been with us from the beginning, with {A}’s ambitious mission to study bullfrogs this year.  If you have not, you are welcome to catch up, if interested, with the help of these links in chronological order:

  1. Bullfrog Tadpole Hunting
  2. Tadpole Progress Report
  3. We’ve Got a Frog With a Tail!
  4. A Frogs Peek

Now just as a little background info, our neighbors, who have a Better Homes and Gardens like yard, created 2 ponds.  One was created for fish, but it ended up to be quite the frog haven.  The kids had been invited to come visit the frogs whenever they want, and {A} takes full advantage of that invitation. : )  It’s a beautiful little pond, with a large frog statue on a bench, and frog stepping stones. It’s a Frog Paradise!

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It even has a waterfall.  The sound of the trickling water is probably what beckoned the escaped frogs in that direction.

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SO!….The day came in October when she decided it was time to let her last frog go. As I said, some had escaped her observatory months prior, and found their way to the neighbor’s pond.  So when it was time to let this last one go, {A} decided it would be the best new home for it. Complete with long lost family!

So first she brought the frog container out of the sanctuary.  This very home-made, make-shift pond, was just part of their home.  They had the entire sanctuary to hunt and hop around in. (There are lots of crickets, bugs and spiders!)

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Then she had to find her (the frog) in the water, because she had hopped off her favorite rock she spent MANY HOURS on.  {A} assures us this one is a girl.

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Got her!!

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Here’s a really good look at one of the beauties {A} raised since she was just a little tadpole.

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Like a Mama not wanting to forget the details of their babies, {A} gave her a good last look over.  And I photographed even the sweet little foot. Lord knows how big these flippers will grow to be someday!

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Possibly their last portrait together.

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Eskimo Kisses!!

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The long good-bye. (I thought I would step back and give them some privacy for this sad yet proud moment.)…

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Letting her go….

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Home Sweet Home!

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{A} thinks they’ll winter well here because of all of the mud at the bottom, and she’ll see them all again in spring.  It was a very rewarding and educational experience to catch all of these amphibians back at the break of spring, feeding and caring for them, and recording their metamorphosis.  It’s also nice to have such a fancy new home to be able to release them to, so close by.

We hope you enjoyed {A}’s frog adventures and updates along the way. I’ve already heard she has big plans for this coming spring once again.  I know she misses her wild creatures throughout the winter months, but the winter season holds traditions, adventures and experiences of their own, that she enjoys so very much, and I am sure it’ll pass the time quickly enough until the earth springs anew with fresh life, and her little creatures wake up once again.

We’ve been very busy preparing hearth, home, and hearts for the Christmas season upon us!  Lots of decorating, creating and gift making going on here, of which we’ll share what we can. As tomorrow brings us the first day of December, visit us often to see what we’ve been up to, and feel free to comment to say hello or share your thoughts or experiences with us.

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Hand-Taming Chipmunks – by {A}

November 16, 2008 By A 3 Comments

Hi there!  If you’ve been visiting our blog from the beginning, you may have seen posts on my chipmunks troop before. If you’ve missed them and want more background, you may want to go back to here, and also here. I have hand-tamed / trained 3 of them, and am working on my fourth, named ‘Sergeant’.   The one in these photos that Mama took, is ‘Chipmouse‘, which was the easiest one to train.

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My family and friends call me ‘The Chipmunk Whisperer‘.  Sometimes they try to whisper back!!  This REALLY tickles! Look at her little paw on my ear!  My Dad said she was thinking, “I wonder if I can put some seeds in here?”.

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I’ve spent extra time with them in the last month or so, knowing I’ll see them a lot less over the winter. I don’t believe that they truly hibernate, but they are like the squirrels.  They stay in their burrows and sleep a LOT, only waking to eat a little bit from the food the keep right next to them. Or under them. They have been known to come out some in winter on milder days to collect nuts or berries or whatever they can find.

In this photo below, she is searching for some of her favorite treats that I might have dropped.  Some of the things I’ve fed her that she loves to eat are dried corn, sunflower seeds, slivered almonds, and she has taken grapes cut into quarters when we didn’t have any of the other things in stock.

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Just look at how she looks up at me!  I think she loves me. Sometimes she gives me little wet kisses.

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I don’t have a photo of it, but I actually taught Chipmouse how to shake paws. : )  I put my finger out by her paw, and she puts her paw on top of my finger.  Then I push up, and she pushes down, and I push up, and she pushes down. It’s really fun!I think in the photo below she wanted to do a double paw shake.

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I also love to twirl her tail.

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I really love my chipmunks.  I’m glad that God allowed them to trust me. 0

I’ve spent a lot of time with them, so I think they will probably remember me in the springtime.  Especially ‘Chipmouse’, because we’ve spent countless hours together.

I know where her burrow is, which is on our property, so when I really miss her, I can at least whisper down to her and tell her. Notice how chipmunk holes are so nice and round? That’s how you know it’s not a snake burrow!

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Well I hope you enjoyed my post.  I should have another coming up.  I won’t tell you what it’s about so it’s a surprise.  : )   Also, today we got a very early, and very, very special Christmas present! We are all over the moon and were bouncing off the walls with happiness when we opened it!  (We weren’t being impatient. We were told to open it right away.)   I hope Mama blogs about it, but she wants photos.  Of course!!

See you later!

 

 

Filed Under: Elementary Homeschooling, Homeschooling, Nature Study, The Big Picture Tagged With: chipmunks, hand-taming-chipmunks, homeschooling, homeschooling-nature-study, training-chipmunks

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