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Paisley’s Gotcha Day

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The girls all got to celebrate gotcha day with Paisley today.  Gotcha Day is the day that a child is placed into a family’s home for adoption. It is the day the family Gotcha.  Paisley was so excited about her special day. She brought two posters all about China. First, was a poster showing all the inventions that China has made through the years.  Discussions began explained each invention and followed by which ones taken by other Continue reading →

Christmas around – world

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Since we haven’t done anything for the last couple days, mainly because I haven’t felt like it. I decided we would look up how different kids all over the world celebrated Christmas. I thought everyone else would enjoy it so I include some of the facts we found. We did however manage to watch all three Santa movies. So here are the top 25 thing we remember about the Santa movies and what we found Continue reading →

Origami great way to learn unschool math

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We took Uncle Tom’s advice and tried doing some origami.  First you need thin paper, not construction paper, so you can do the folds. And you need a really good origami app on your iPad 2, or a book that gives really good illustrations of what you need to do. We only had the instruction book and an app, but the paper was way too thick.  So we only made a frog… We also went Continue reading →