{"id":401055,"date":"2007-10-01T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2007\/10\/01\/roots-and-wings-homeschool-co-op-10-1-07\/"},"modified":"2011-10-08T04:02:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T04:02:51","slug":"roots-and-wings-homeschool-co-op-10-1-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2007\/10\/01\/roots-and-wings-homeschool-co-op-10-1-07\/","title":{"rendered":"Roots and Wings Homeschool Co-op 10\/1\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the first day of&nbsp; our &#8216;Roots and Wings Homeschool Co-op&#8217;.&nbsp; We are a small group of eight moms, with 20 children.&nbsp; We will be meeting every Monday for two hours, alternating moms serving as the teacher.&nbsp; The focus is on social enrichment and extracurricular activities.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Sundy taught the kids a couple of songs during circle time.&nbsp; They made homemade journals and their own personal stamps (made from erasers).&nbsp; These journals will be used for next weeks activity (my turn) when we go on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letterboxing.org\/\">&#8216;letterboxing&#8217; <\/a>hike.<\/p>\n<p>(Letterboxing is an activity that combines the traditional treasure hunt&nbsp;, using&nbsp;rubber stamps and journals.&nbsp; It is an activity that can be for the whole family and letterboxes are planted all over the world.&nbsp; It is similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/\">geochaching<\/a>, a&nbsp;hunt that requires a GPS system.)<\/p>\n<p>(Special thanks to Linda for being my photographer until I get a camera&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1434\/1469728769_b40a71f265.jpg\" \/>Circle Time<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1428\/1470584880_70a3e9d44e.jpg\" \/>Here I am carving out a pattern on an eraser.&nbsp; Hey, forewarning&#8230;if you are carving out a stamp that has letters, make sure you carve the latters backwards!!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1422\/1470584948_3caeec2ef8.jpg\" \/>Sundy and kids<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1243\/1470585010_4c3c0792cf.jpg\" \/>Showing off their journals<\/p>\n<p>After school, I took the boys to Target for clothes.&nbsp; I realized they don&#8217;t have any long sleeves shirts!&nbsp; After that, we did a Trader Joe&#8217;s run, then swim lessons. <\/p>\n<p>What does a Stay at home mom do all day anyway?!?! <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/include\/fckeditor\/editor\/images\/smiley\/msn\/wink_smile.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the first day of&nbsp; our &#8216;Roots and Wings Homeschool Co-op&#8217;.&nbsp; We are a small group of eight moms, with 20 children.&nbsp; We will be meeting every Monday for two hours, alternating moms serving as the teacher.&nbsp; The focus is on social enrichment and extracurricular activities. Today, Sundy taught the kids a couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-homeschool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784594,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401055\/revisions\/784594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}