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Holiday

A Photoshoot: Halloween Costumes

By Leslie Parks - Thursday, October 22, 2015
This is our year of buying costumes.  Last year was a make your own costume. So we (I) made the costumes this year as well.  Job had has this idea of a swaggy santa. Really, what is a swaggy santa. Well, Swaggy Santa sports addidas sweats and hoodie, a snapback cap, and van high top professional skate sneakers and accessories with a black...

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Exploring

A Hike: Oyster Dome

By Leslie Parks - Sunday, October 11, 2015
Sometimes we have expectations and plans in life and when they don't happen we are disappointed or angry or despressed or all of them. We have these ideas of beauty and how something would be perfect and even if it did turn out the way you want it would be a let down or you'd realize that it wasn't as perfect as you...

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Learning

An Awakening: Homework

By Leslie Parks - Sunday, October 11, 2015
 How much is too much homework? How much homework should each teacher assign? It's been hard in the past to homeschool during the day knowing what is going on and then to homeschool at night with blinders. I say that because I don't know what's going on at school and kids have questions. What does it mean by "Do you think the experiment...

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Projects

A Love Affair: Quince

By Leslie Parks - Thursday, October 01, 2015
It was October of 2013 when I last picked quince. I was in France and the fruit was ready. My grandmother announced that we would be making quince jelly that day. We gathered the basket and the quince picking tool and headed up the hill to the few quince trees growing in the yard to harvest the quince. Fast forward 2 years and...

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