RTR - Weeks 17 & 18

[Marie]

Weeks 17 & 18.

[Carol Skinner]

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:25 pm

Just wanted to let anyone know, who is interested, that Kmart has indoor herb gardens. The price is $15.99, I think by Chia. The herbs are curled parsley, dill, chives, basil, cilantro, and marjoram. It comes with 4-3in terra cotta pots and saucers and liners, growing sponges, seed packets and plant markers.

It will be hard for my girls to wait ==we are in wk15.

In Christ,
Carol

[cbollin]

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:55 pm

In RTR we ended up visiting our neighbor's garden. (Week 18 was in October for us that year)

But we just bought a Chia this past weekend for part of the Botany study in EX1850! So far, it's growing even in my house :)

--crystal

[cbollin]

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:11 am

We had fun listening to a condensed reading of Beowulf. Found a book on cassette at library that had Beowulf on it, as part of a "scary tales" readings. The intro music had a nice traveling minstrel feel to it.
It is called:
Tell-tale heart, and other terrifying tales All stories adapted by Syd Lieberman ; original music by Howard Levy.

My older child got to listen to this with me, but I did make sure the younger girls were out of listening range. It wasn't very scary (for my 4th grader) but I like to err on the cautious side. Don't know if all the stories are appropriate, but just listened to Beowulf.

crystal

[cbollin]

Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:17 pm

Week 18: Herb garden growing activity.

Insect Lore (the company that makes the butterfly garden and Ant Hill from the K program) now sells a ready to grow "medieval herber" kit. (Of course the TM does give easy to follow instructions to do one on your own. just an alternative idea.)

[DS4home]

Instead of carving our names in cookie dough, we used our home made clay tablets from week 1. We have enjoyed writing on our tablets on occation and have keep them in our cubbies with the other school books. The truth is I am not a cookie baking mom (they always burn and I gave up trying!). So the clay tablets came in handy, they could still enjoy the activity of writing in runes :)

Dawn

[Julie in MN]

My son had a Jonathan Park audio about Beowolf. Well, he needed a little of the RTR lesson in order to get the whole historical connection, but he likes the JP audios & has referred to them years later.

Julie