family adventures, pnw

Clamming Adventure

We recently met up with friends who taught us how to do clamming.
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It’s pretty amazing that you can go out and use these suction rockets and find clams.
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We lasted maybe 10 minutes in the wind and rain before we were ready to head back but bucket list item crossed off! Yay!!

homeschooling

Spring Farmers Market

Our Homeschool Coop hosted a Farmers Market this past week and the littles had fun making items for it.
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We made pickles , dirt cups, wood swords, s’mores bars and I had several Mickey Mouse Keychains leftover from the 5k we did do I took those also.

It was fun to see the littles take inventory and sell their items. They were so excited when something would sell.
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Overall, it was a fun successful event. The littles are learning valuable business skills and having fun as they do⭐️

American Girl Doll, homeschooling

Marie-Grace~American Girl Doll History class⭐️

Marie-Grace & Cecile from @americangirlbrand was one of our Dolls of the Month.
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The story takes place in 1853 in New Orleans and is full of history, an epidemic, and a friendship that transcended all social barriers at that time.

Most of the people in New Orleans at that time spoke French so it was fun learning a little french and speaking it at our tea party.

For our tea party we served chocolate drizzled croissants , scones and walnuts ( for our take on pralines)

We played a game from American Girl instead of doing the vocabulary bingo and the girls loved it!

The girls then decorated masquerade mask for their dolls and for themselves.

Such a fun day!
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Resource links below ⬇️


http://web.archive.org/web/20140815135703if_/http://www.americangirlpublishing.com/media/Spring2012/AG_CM_CostumeSearch.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20140815135712if_/http://www.americangirlpublishing.com/media/Spring2012/AG_CM_Fans.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20140815135724if_/http://www.americangirlpublishing.com/media/Spring2012/AG_CM_FrenchLesson.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20140815135748if_/http://www.americangirlpublishing.com/media/Spring2012/AG_CM_TheaterNight.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20130829071546if_/http://www.americangirlpublishing.com:80/media/Spring2012/Mystery%20Event%20Kit%202012/CrossGrid.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20130829071845if_/http://www.americangirlpublishing.com:80/media/Spring2012/Mystery%20Event%20Kit%202012/CircusSquares.pdf

http://4littlepiglets.blogspot.com/2013/03/american-girl-lapbook.html?m=1

http://www.usa-printables.com/50_States/LA/la-pics/louisiana-map-01.gif


http://allfreeprintable.com/cont/gms/pdf/mardigr-triv.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20140815135734if_/http://www.americangirlpublishing.com/media/Spring2012/AG_CM_MarketGame.pdf

faith, Gathered thoughts

National Day of Prayer

One of the truths that keep popping up in the Bible as I read through it , is how powerful prayer is.
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I have recently been reading through David’s life and came across this example of prayer ⬇️

When David was running from his son Absolom and one of his top advisors had deflected to his sons side. He prayed for that the advice of that advisor would be foolish
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And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
2samuel 15:31
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And then God answers that prayer ..

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had ordainedfn to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the LORD might bring harm upon Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:14
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This is just scratching the surface of this story and I encourage you to go through it and read the text commentaries @blueletterbible .. there are so many “nuggets “ like that advisor being Bathsheba’s grandfather.. and so much more.
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I think prayer is the most important tool we as Christian’s have. We get to intercede on others behalf to our Heavenly Father , we get to invite God into our daily lives , and we can raise mountains just by kneeling and inviting our Heavenly King into our daily life.

homeschooling

Teaching Time with Lego

Teaching time is so much fun with @lego @legoeducation ⭐️
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They are the perfect size math manipulative and are a great way to teach the students there are 60 minutes in 1 hour.

I set the clocks to different times and had the students tell me the time displayed. I then had the students set the times I called out. It was a great way to practice reading clocks and it was super easy to implement ⏱Double win!!

homeschooling

Happy PI Day ⭐️

Happy PI Day ⭐️
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Such a fun day to celebrate math,especially when it falls on one of our coop days ⭐️
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The elementary students had fun learning about PI with oreo cookies and the jr/sr high learned with pies.. Yumm!!
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Our family gets to finish the day off with pizza 🍕 for dinner ⭐️
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Who knew learning math could be so delicious ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Do you have a special way of celebrating PI day? If so , share below ⬇️

homemaking

A few of my favorite things♥️

Loving all the fun Valentine decor I found this year on etsy like this adorable sign that looks perfect next to one of my favorite candles ♥️