Today we had a field trip during our language learning block! We went to the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival currently taking place in Burnsville, where we heard two very good sessions. Author Tommy Hays, who is from around this area read excerpts from his new book, "what i came to tell you." He was pretty good- so good that Ri bought a copy of his book because he wanted to know what happens at the end. We also heard spoken word poet Kane Smego, who entertained us and made us think about various issues through his spoken poems. | |
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We decided we needed to take advantage of the gorgeous weather we have been having here to explore the area! We were told of a storytelling center in nearby Tennessee, at Jonesborough, "Tennessee's oldest town". So off we went for a field trip! (This flexibility is the best aspect of our micro-school!). It is a well preserved, old town and the story telling center was interesting for us, as they had their teller-in-residence program on. A local artist/storyteller was the artist for the week, and told us stories of his childhood, as well as stories that he had heard through song and voice. But the best part of the day was the drive into and back home from Tennessee! Jim is always on the look out for the road less traveled, and we usually end up on one of those around here! Today we went to Price's General Store to get Jim a fishing license so that he can supervise Rigel who wants to go fishing around here. Children under the age of 16 don't need one. Thanks to Rigel's buddy, August, and his dad, Kevin, in Shanghai, Rigel began to learn how to fish and wants to use his going away present from them- a fishing rod with the accoutrements. What an interesting local, general store!
Today we went to help and to learn at Dig in!, which is a beautiful local community garden whose mission is to help provide fresh fruit and vegetables to other local hunger relief agencies and to inspire people in the local county- Yancey- to grow their own healthy foods! This was the perfect place for us to learn about starting our very own vegetable patch, that Preeti is very keen on doing. And the added benefits are helping our new community and getting to meet people who are friendly and experts on gardening! Here are a couple of interesting links for gardening related projects with kids- the first two links are citizen science links: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/AboutFall.html http://www.lostladybug.org http://www.almanac.com/content/mexican-bean-beetles |
The Happer'sHi! This is Preeti, Jim, Rigel, Luna and I (Aneka). We have recently left our home in Shanghai, China to Somewhereinthemountains, North Carolina. Preeti and Jim are both international school teachers and Rigel, Luna and I are homeschooled. Categories
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