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I didn't want to hijack so I moved Jenifer's question to a new thread.
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Your class sounds wonderful!
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We call it "Garden school for Girls". We meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 11 to 3. We are using a "garden" theme for the summer. So far we have covered butterflies, bees, plants, trees, weather, the sun, seasons, the language of flowers, Monet and O'Keefe. We have 3 tomato plants growing: one in dirt, one in Miracle Grow potting mix, and one in organic compost to see which will grow better and give better tomatos. We hope to start a Marian garden next week and a butterfly garden soon.
Much of the legwork has already been done by this wonderful group of ladies. THANK YOU ALL!! I just searched out the topics here and used many of the suggestions. We are using Homeschool Share and Homeschool Helper for lap books, Enchanted Learning for worksheets, a Children's Garden of Verses for copy work and a creek nearby for nature study.
On Fridays we have tried to get together for local free nature field trips with the whole families. We went to a butterfly house, an organic farm, an historical farm and a forest preserve.
I charged each family a small amount to cover my printing costs. It has been alot of fun, and we have gotten to know girls really well that we otherwise wouldn't have. I didn't accomplish as much as I had hoped, but they had fun, learned some and made new friends. Also, I haven't had a summer listening to my dd complain about boredom or lack of companionship. And I haven't been running around with her signed up in all sorts of stuff to keep her busy.
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That sounds lovely!!! 
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That sounds like a wonderful class to offer!
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That sounds awesome!!
Can you tell me the ages of most of the girls? And about how many girls participated in the class?
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The girls range in age from 7 to 11. We have 10 girls, because that is where I capped it at. Anyone else that asked to join, I gave a CD with the compiled info. I felt 10 was the limit I could handle.
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Sounds like something for next summer (altho I'd add some stuff for boys too) ... any NoVA ladies interested in such a class ....
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Mary G wrote:
| Sounds like something for next summer (altho I'd add some stuff for boys too) ... any NoVA ladies interested in such a class .... |
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I need boys stuff, but we're sorely lacking in Nature Study anything, so yes for us!
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I was doing a search and found this old thread. LeeAnn, did you continue with this?
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Jenn, we did this summer of '08 and '09. We had a lot of fun and the girls have all stayed close friends.
We aren't doing it this summer, as I ran a 15 family coop this school year and am coordinating a summer daycamp for American Heritiage Girls so I had to pass this year.
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