The McEldowney Family: March is already over and done!!!1

Monday, April 6, 2009

March is already over and done!!!1

Hello to all!!
we had a nice month in March, very, very busy. We all managed to auxilliary pioneer, so it made things go really quickly. We celebrated our 17th anniversary by buying roller skates for the entire family,..we are all trying to get active again after 'hibernating' over the winter. We applied for our passport cards...I partcipated in a Market research panel where they paid me $100 to give my opinion on Campbells cooking sauce!!....uhm, what else. Well, we placed a total of 15 , yes, I said 15 'What does the bible really teach' books with some really interested people.
The kids are doing well,...we started some lessons on Health and science for the month of April. They built an incubator for some eggs we are trying to hatch...that is the science experiment...they have to monitor the humidity and temperature and rotate the eggs regularly during the day. We have also started many garden plants in mini greenhouses inside the house. We hope to be able to plant in a few weeks. We will keep you updated!!

We are enjoying this week of the memorial celebration and the invitations ,..Sean is giving the talk so he is preparing for that.
Take care,
keep in touch!!

3 comments:

Nicole said...: Very cool incubator project. I would love to do this with the kids someday. It's nice to meet a fellow JW family of homeschoolers. We live very close to the printing press at Watchtower Farms if you are ever in this neck of the woods for a field trip, we can meet up.:)

Nicole; April 6, 2009 at 7:03 PM
live4evermom said...: Love that incubtor project. My boys would love that. I have got to post about our chicken calendar. It's a chicken calendar. Let us know how that works.; April 7, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Missi said...: Wow 15 books...that is a real blessing! The incubator is so neat...we are planning to do a tiny lil one from science kits w/ 4 quail eggs...they say it has a 25% hatch rate...so perhaps one will hatch- don't know if I like those odds =(; May 19, 2009 at 5:45 AM

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"What does education often do? It makes a
straight-cut ditch of a free meandering brook."
~Henry David Thoreau, Journal,
1850

"Learning can only happen when a child is interested. If he's not interested, it's like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating."
- Barbara Lamping
"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience."
-- Anne Sullivan (Helen Keller's teacher)