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Archive for March, 2010

Petting Zoo

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Travels | No Comments »

The kids and I joined our friends at a council run petting zoo and play ground in Ede. It was a lot of fun with a very relaxed atmosphere. The playground was great!  Even I fit on the slides.  I ...

Zeeland

Monday, March 22nd, 2010 Posted in Family, Travels | No Comments »

We were invited to join friends at a house in Kortgene, Zeeland, for the week. How fun! We've been to the the sea and enjoyed playing in the sand wearing toques and gloves. We made our own islands hoping to keep ...

Kasteel Doorwerth

Monday, March 15th, 2010 Posted in Family, Travels | 1 Comment »

Our neighbourhood friend, Heleen, and her son and husband invited us to join them at the Kasteel Doorwerth. This castle is a restoration of a building that has its origins in the 13th century, but was destroyed during World War ...

Water Science

Sunday, March 14th, 2010 Posted in creation, Family, Homeschooling | No Comments »

We joined about 20 other home educated (HE) children and their parents at the Water Museum in Arnhem this past week to study and learn about the earth's water. The children had the opportunity to work in the science lab ...

Money Museum

Saturday, March 13th, 2010 Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Travels | No Comments »

We joined a Dutch home educators email group in order to get in contact with some other home educating families. Since a field trip was planned for the Geldmuseum (the Money Museum, the former Dutch Mint) we thought we'd go ...

Goin’ to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo . . .

Friday, March 5th, 2010 Posted in birding, Family, Homeschooling, Travels | 2 Comments »

. . . how about you, you, you? We had a great day at the zoo on Thursday. About a 15 minute drive from where we're living in NL is the Ouwehand Dierenpark. Caleb had requested a zoo trip for his ...