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Vintage Quilty Truck of the Month: February

Vintage Quilty Truck of the Month: February

.wp-block-image img {max-width: 100%;} img {height: auto;} Vintage Quilty Truck of the Month: February is a post from Confessions of a Homeschooler. If you’ve enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Erica on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest! Also be sure to stop by her Community to join the discussion or her Store to see her latest items! Vintage Truck of the Month: FEBRUARY QUILT PATTERN PDF Finished Size: 20” x 24” FABRIC REQUIREMENTS: Background fabric: 1/2 yard Aqua: 1/8 yard or 1 F8 Black: 1/8 yard or 1 F8 Grey: 1/8 yard or 1 F8 Low Vol for Window:...

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Bear Nature Study for Your Homeschool

Bear Nature Study for Your Homeschool

We’re starting with a favorite topic of mine, black bears! Enjoy a bear nature study in your homeschool with this Outdoor Hour Challenge. Forest Fun for Your Homeschool You can enjoy some forest fun nature studies in your homeschool and do a bear nature study Outdoor Hour Challenge. Just how to do this? Choose your resource for learning about the black bear. This can be an online site like National Wildlife Federation or the National Park Service. Please note that I will not be posting the complete challenge here on the blog, but you’ll find the detailed bear nature study...

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Celebrate Lit Blog Tour: Buried Cold Case Secrets by Sami A. Abrams

Celebrate Lit Blog Tour: Buried Cold Case Secrets by Sami A. Abrams

Book: Buried Cold Case SecretsAuthor: Sami A. AbramsGenre: Romantic SuspenseRelease date: December 28, 2021 Recovering her missing memories… Could be the key to solving a murder… Searching for her best friend’s remains could help forensic anthropologist Melanie Hutton regain her memories of when they were both kidnapped—unless the killer gets to Melanie first. For her safety, Melanie must rely on Detective Jason Cooper, who still blames her for his sister’s death. Can Jason set the past aside to solve the cold-case murder…and shield Melanie from the same fate?  Click here to get your copy! I am not normally who truly enjoys Suspense or...

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Sooke children’s book reflects seasonal changes

Sooke children’s book reflects seasonal changes

A book by a Sooke writer is rooted in the author’s words when she was growing up. The Crabapple Tree, a self-published book by Leslie Speed, was inspired by a poem of the same name that she wrote when she was young. “Growing up in the countryside, I found so much joy being outside in nature all year round,” said Speed, who also did all of the art for the book. “When I was a child, I wrote a poem about the crabapple tree in our yard and the life that surrounded it,” Speed said. “I loved to see the...

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Winter Homeschool Nature Study with Art and Music Appreciation

Winter Homeschool Nature Study with Art and Music Appreciation

This winter homeschool nature study curriculum contains all the nature study Outdoor Hour Challenges, custom notebook pages for nature study as well as art and music appreciation, and three months’ worth of art and music appreciation. Writing this winter homeschool nature study curriculum has helped us appreciate the winter season more than we ever have before. Part of our enthusiasm has come from spending more time outdoors bundled up with our families exploring the winter landscape. Winter changes our normal view of things by emptying the trees of their leaves and covering the ground in thin or thick blankets of...

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