Zoe has become a pro at preparing for road trips. she pulls out her car basket and starts to gather her “road trip” equipment her reading light, her lap desk, her travel blanket and pillow, she puts her pencils in an old tea tin, and asks which books we are bringing. She knows road trips [...]
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“road school” in her basket
Posted in Family, Travel, books on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Poetry
Posted in books on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I mentioned in an earlier post how excited I was to have found my favorite poetry book from when I was a child
“I like this poem”
Edited by Kaye Webb
It is a collection of poetry chosen by children organized by age (6-7 all the way to 14. Though it is a new edition I was happy [...]
at 5 and a half!
Posted in Family, books on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
All of a sudden it seems that Zoe has grown up! Yes it seems that sudden. I cannot believe how much she has grown in the past year. She has always been an independent kindda kid, always figuring things out, following her interests and learning new skills.
It seems that physically she has taken a huge [...]
More road trip fun
Posted in Family, Travel, books on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good friends and beach time. . .
(Georgetown, DC)
(Lambertville, NJ)
Exploring Seaweeds
Inspired from our latest favorite book The Wakame Gatherers by Holly Thompson
and a quick swim
(Rye, NY)
Easter Egg Hunts and More. . .
Posted in Family, Food and recipes, books on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This year the Easter bunny brought Zoe the book “Grow it, Cook it” by DK Publishing and in each Easter egg hidden out in the yard was hiding a seed package. There were carrot seeds and broccoli seeds, egg guords and basil, beets and sunflowers and a certificate for a strawberry journal. There was plenty of [...]
thoughts on city parks
Posted in Family, Nature Study, Travel, books on March 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As we are still dealing with jetlag (awake after midnight and asleep in the late morning) we have been making no big plans, just seeing where the day takes us while trying to get into some kind of routine…school work, reading (IdriREAD we are reading Finn Family Moomintroll (which I highly recommend), and violin practice. We also [...]
BOOKS, books and more books
Posted in books on January 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As some of you know Zoe is part of an educational program called “Peace Travelers“. It is a program that Kate O’Shea and myself are writing, as a introduction to our year of world travel which begins ) in Sept 2010. This holiday season Zoe received some great books that we will be using as [...]




