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Rideau Trail Walk #4

Nov 15th, 2010
by Annie Kate.
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  Each week it takes a lot of juggling and effort to get out to the Rideau Trail and walk the next section, but it’s always so wonderful once we get there! This week we walked about 5 km, mostly along a hardly used road allowance between fields.  There were deep ruts of slippery wet […]

Weekly Wrap-Up: Mostly Writing

Nov 6th, 2010
by Annie Kate.
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Miss 12 started her NaNoWriMo novel on Monday.  She writes a few hours a day, with a Huguenot history book on her lap.  Occasionally she makes forays onto Wikipedia to learn more about French geography and history.  When she found the NaNoWriMo word count goals for different grades she was shocked to see that her […]

Everyday Life and Two Nature Walks

Oct 30th, 2010
by Annie Kate.
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Wow, what a week!  We did bookwork, quite a lot of it in fact, as well as a lot of other things. Mr. 15 had a friend over for two days.  This young man does computer learning, so he was busy with his laptop all morning.  No mess, no books, no answer keys, no fuss.  […]

Of Books, Bookwork, and the Rideau Trail

Oct 23rd, 2010
by Annie Kate.
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This has been an incredibly varied week.  Lacking the energy to do much physical work, I sat down much of the time, homeschooling and working at my computer to the point where I feel guilty.  The children did a lot of bookwork, and we’re slowly catching up to where we had planned to be by […]

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