I have the feeling there isn't going to be a lot of book-learning going on until after New Year's. Oh well. Yesterday we did do 2 chapters of history. Just got on a roll. Today though, there were no "traditional" subjects being learned.
But she drew a picture for her great-grandmother in the nursing home (they moved her to a new room and lost the last picture Violet sent her!) We also experimented with making homemade suet cakes for birds. They are in the freezer hardening (we hope) right now. And Violet made the chicken pot pie that we will have for dinner. Plus she's spent the afternoon playing pet store with all her stuffed toys. We did go to the library today, that counts too.
I hope our suet cakes turn out. We want to give them to the grandparents for Christmas. We used vegetable shortening and peanut butter as the base instead of lard. I really didn't want to use animal fat. For some we used corn meal to thicken them and others we used oatmeal. They all got raisins, peanuts, dried apricots and bird seed as goodies. We'll put them out in the freezer tomorrow and see if anyone eats them.
One of these days we'll have to do some math again. Maybe tomorrow. Of course on Friday she'll get some real life math experience. We are going over to our service unit's Fall Product Chair's house to help sort of candy and nuts. (For those of you non-Girl Scouts, we're going to sort the candy and nut orders by troop for a couple of the surrounding towns.) That should count for something.
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We don't do fall product sales here for GS. I kinda wish we did, things are a little lean during the first few months of meetings. Our council decided that since the first thing that happens when kids go back to school are the fall fundraisers that they wouldn't try to compete with that.
Nice of you and your dd to go and help out.
I am interested to see how your suet cakes turn out. Colin has read that woodpeckers really like suet, so he is wanting to try some for his new red-headed friends.
Violet is still very young, but we learned with Tyler that all those activities you mentioned definitely count when building your college and scholarship resumes.
I am logging every minute that Colin spends doing anything extracurricular or volunteering.
There's a lot to be said for a little untraditional schooling, yes? :o)
I don't feel like doing school this month either!!
I am going to plan lots of field trips!!LOL!!
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