Posted in Girl Scouts, Unschooling, Webkinz, art, crafts, favorites, food, games, holidays, homeschooling, how to, magic, money, party, pets, photographs, software, vegan by: Lisa
01 Oct
For my younger daughter’s 8th birthday, she decided to have a Webkinz themed party as a Girl Scout meeting. We had a 2.5 hour block scheduled and a lot of party to put in that time period, so we planned it all out on poster board much like the Webkinz “Daily Events” schedule.
When each [...]
Posted in Girl Scouts, Unschooling, Webkinz, food, games, holidays, homeschooling, how to, party, photographs, vegan, vegetarian by: Lisa
03 Sep
My oldest daughter turned 12 yesterday! Happy Birthday to Zoë! Since she was born in the Chinese Year of the Rat and it is currently the Year of the Rat again, she decided to have a Chinese New Year’s themed Birthday party. Here are some of the details of her party.
For starters, my [...]
Posted in Arizona, Harry Potter, Tucson, Webkinz, art, crafts, party, photographs, writing by: Lisa
26 Apr
Our Task: Write up four riddles for the four champions in our Harry Potter class’s Tri-Wizard Tournament Task 2. [Here are links to the clue and prizes for Task 1.]
Here’s what we did and how we did it:
Task 2 had the kids (champions) diving into a local public swimming pool in order to [...]
Posted in Girl Scouts, games, party by: Lisa
04 Feb
Part of bridging to a new level in Girl Scouts is helping to plan (or completely planning) a ceremony. My daughter, in preparation of bridging from Junior Girl Scouts to Cadette Girl Scouts decided to plan our ceremony last month (she doesn’t actually bridge until May). She, with my husband’s and my help, [...]
Posted in Harry Potter, Unschooling, food, magic, party, vegan, vegan leather alternatives by: Lisa
31 Aug
My oldest daughter turns eleven on Sunday. If we lived in England, she’d be getting her letter to Hogwart’s about now. But, alas, we live in Arizona, USA. Then, of course, there is the fact that we have chosen homeschooling, Radical Unschooling to be precise, as the form of education in our household… Still, the [...]