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northwest Alabama field trips

Shiloh

December 27, 2015 by Amy 1 Comment

We visited Shiloh National Military Park on our last official school day before breaking for Christmas.  (But yes, we’re Learning All the Time.  😉 )  This was a perfect way to end our year and also to cap off our Civil War studies.  It was a beautiful, though quite blustery, day.  I’ll let the pictures … [Read more…]

Posted in: Education Tagged: Alabama field trips, Civil War, Field Trips, North Alabama Field Trips, northwest Alabama field trips, Tennessee Valley field trips, U.S. History

“The Daffodils” by William Wordsworth

March 27, 2015 by Amy 2 Comments

We visited one of my favorite places on earth mid-week: the Huntsville Botanical Garden. The garden was just waking up, but there was quite a lot of color already to be seen, and much of it came from those harbingers of spring, the daffodils.  I couldn’t help but be reminded of this poem when I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Education, Nature Tagged: Field Trips, Nature, North Alabama Field Trips, northwest Alabama field trips, Poetry Friday, Tennessee Valley field trips

Odds & Ends: Cabin Fever Edition

February 21, 2015 by Amy 2 Comments

It has been a long week here at the House of Hope. Due to the winter weather and north Alabama snow hsyteria, not one of our scheduled activities took place this week.  NOT ONE.   While I definitely welcomed the break at the beginning of the week, by the end of the week I was … [Read more…]

Posted in: Education, Kid-Speak Tagged: Field Trips, Lulu, North Alabama Field Trips, northwest Alabama field trips, Odds & Ends, Tennessee Valley field trips, Weekly Wrap-Up

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

May 20, 2014 by Amy 4 Comments

I was prompted to pick up Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as a read-aloud because of the Alice’s Garden of Wonders event at the Huntsville Botanical Gardens.  Of course we had to read it before we could visit the gardens!  (I’d have my homeschooling mama credentials revoked if we didn’t, right?  😉 )  I was very … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Education, Juvenile Fiction Tagged: Alabama field trips, Field Trips, Juvenile Fiction, North Alabama Field Trips, northwest Alabama field trips, Read Aloud Thursday

Scarecrow creations at the Huntsville Botanical Garden

September 22, 2013 by Amy Leave a Comment

Here are a few of the exhibits along the Scarecrow Trail at the Huntsville Botanical Garden that caught my eye on Friday:    

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