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The Great Guinea Gaffe

Built a playground for the boys and a house for the fowl, Complete with a mirror and some big plastic owls. Named the three guineas Larry, Curly and Moe And went to our first blacklight puppet show. -Excerpt from the Ferrell 2010 Christmas wRap I received a question from a friend about when we might […]


By Brandy Ferrell September 17, 2011 5 Comments Tagged With: CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS, FUNNY FARM, NATURE STUDY

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CC Week 4: A little silliness

We started out the week making homemade straw oboes that sound like a…. honk of a dying goose?  What does this have to do with our planned homeschool studies?  Nothing!  But it was ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!!!  (Sometimes, you just gotta do stuff that makes ya laugh.) As a side note, we love all of the homemade […]


By Brandy Ferrell September 15, 2011 4 Comments Tagged With: CC CYCLE 3 WEEKS 1-12 ACTIVITIES, HISTORY, MATH, SCIENCE

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CC Week 3: ESSENTIALly, we’re adjusting…

After experiencing two weeks of Essentials…. I sat down with Stephen and asked him what he’d like to drop from the schedule.  Well, naturally, he didn’t want to drop anything, except practicing his math facts.  (For a person with a natural gift and love for memorizing, why would he rather scrub toilets than memorize his […]


By Brandy Ferrell September 10, 2011 7 Comments Tagged With: BE REAL, CC CYCLE 3 WEEKS 1-12 ACTIVITIES

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What about Socialization?

It was a question that I hadn’t really thought about before we made the decision to homeschool.  I’m not sure why it never dawned on us that it would be an issue.  Maybe because, when we’d been around some homeschooling families in the past, I had never really noticed a problem with their ability to […]


By Brandy Ferrell September 4, 2011 14 Comments Tagged With: CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS, HOMESCHOOLING

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CC Week 2: When boys decide they like school after all!

In addition to our normal ongoing long-term projects (like Timeline Notebook, USA Notebook, American History Stories, and lapbooks),    Stephen completed Toymaker’s paper mayflower: while David made The First Thanksgiving Book: We also created a  pilgrim “Thank You God” mini-book from Christian Preschool Printables, which tied our history sentence into our Attitude of Gratitude study. David […]


By Brandy Ferrell September 2, 2011 9 Comments Tagged With: ARTS AND CRAFTS, CC CYCLE 3 WEEKS 1-12 ACTIVITIES, HISTORY, HOMESCHOOL CHRONICLES, HSITW, LAPBOOKING, NOTEBOOKING, OUR FAMILY, REALITY CHECK, SCIENCE

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Native American Craft: Tom-Tom Drums

After a couple of months of drinking Nestle Quick, we’ve finally created the project that we originally planned to do this summer as part of our Native American study.  But alas!  It tied in nicely with our study of Pilgrims, Squanto, and the writing of a Native American poem…. Supplies Needed: Nestle Quick Can Can […]


By Brandy Ferrell September 2, 2011 1 Comment Tagged With: ARTS AND CRAFTS, EARLY ELEMENTARY, ELEMENTARY, NATIVE AMERICANS

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Not-so-Fairy-Tales and CC Ongoing Projects

On this week’s episode of “Not-so-Fairy-tales from the Ferrell Funny Farm” Gary left for Tanzania Sunday morning, and we thus embarked on our first week without him for this school year.  There’s a highly mathematical equation for this: Routine – Routine = No Routine The day he left we dealt with the accidental death of two of our […]


By Brandy Ferrell September 1, 2011 16 Comments Tagged With: BE REAL, CC CYCLE 3 WEEKS 1-12 ACTIVITIES, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, SCIENCE

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Utopia vs. Reality

Just thought I’d give a glimpse at what life has ACTUALLY been like for Week #1.  This is just to prove that we don’t actually do all the stuff we plan because sometimes… life just is not so utopian. On Monday I was wildly racing to prepare for my first day of class (which was […]


By Brandy Ferrell August 27, 2011 11 Comments Tagged With: BE REAL, CC CYCLE 3 WEEKS 1-12 ACTIVITIES, PLAN VS. REALITY

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When failure becomes success

In the midst of failure, it’s not always easy to see God’s purposes… About four years ago, I was in a set routine.  I had already experienced life as an engineer for a Fortune 500, as well as life as a high school math teacher for everything from pre-calculus to lower level math (with students […]


By Brandy Ferrell August 24, 2011 28 Comments Tagged With: BE REAL, FROM THE HEART, OUR FAMILY, PARENTING, REALITY CHECK

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