The End of the Dead of Winter Weekly Report

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School this week was busy. We are doing several reviews at once: The Art of Deductive Reasoning, Adventus Piano, Programming, Lapbooks, Lone Star, along with our regularly scheduled programming. Full and busy, but good. Our little blue 5 x7 cards are our navigators.
Reviews this week included Target the Question, Abraham's Journey and College Common Sense.

We are doing more and more on-line school again. Rosetta Stone, Target the Question with Lone Star, Keyboarding with Schoolhouse Teachers (yea!), computer programming, piano. Our one lone Internet connected computer is our work horse. As a veteran homeschooler I am thrilled with the variety and # of choices we have available!

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Steve Martin

Reading Born Standing Up by comedienne extraordinaire Steve ROTFLOL Martin- he's as funny in print as performing on SNL or parrying back and forth with a Muppet. I had to read this after learning that the title for the book So Good They Can't Ignore You can from Steve. His path to success is an interesting combination of a lot of things.

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 14 years ago today my Mom died.

And it seems like forever ago.

The days are long, the years are short grows ever more profound.

 

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Finished The Ramsey Scallop last night by Francis Temple (the author of The Bedouin's Gazelle). This is the 3rd time I've read this book out loud and I love it each time. From the author: "The story began to take form in northern Spain, along pilgrim trails, was fed by histories, stories, letters by the testimony of a 14th century shepherd, by the thoughts of today's pilgrims. Concerns echo across years- clean water, good talk, risks welcomed, the search fora  peaceful heart. Traveling in Eleanor's shoes, I found out how strongly the tradition of pilgrimage continues." A beautiful Medieval rendering of journey, redemption and love.

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We had a great time in film class this a.m. We've decided on a story, assigned parts and are developing videography skills. Today small groups assembled and did interviews of the cast, both as the actor, and as the character. Great ad-libbing. We just have to figure out sound.

 

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From the "about me" over at Stop Her She's Knitting;  

"Let this be the rallying cry for all women over 50:

You can have my gray hair when you can pry it from my cold dead fingers.

As Felton wrote, in a review of Steve Martin, "This isn't comedy; it's campfire recreation for the bent at heart. It's a laugh-a- long for loonies...."

 

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