Joycrest Skating Rink & The SPOT
Joycrest Skating Rink has been going since 1932. Jay had a free night out there with 'The SPOT', which is a local teen program. They had...
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Lee Elliott
Feb 1, 20231 min read
Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner
Year of the Rabbit - The Elliott Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner: Egg rolls, velvet corn soup with crab, sesame chicken, cashew chicken,...
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Lee Elliott
Feb 1, 20231 min read
Burning the Kitchen God
Chinese New Year family tradition thing: The final moments of our Kitchen God. His lips sweetened or sealed with honey so he may only...
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Lee Elliott
Jan 20, 20231 min read
Pizza Fridays
With all the cooking and baking, you could be excused for thinking our homeschool is simple a culinary school in disguise. The medium...
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Lee Elliott
Jan 19, 20231 min read
Japanese with Rosetta
Having spent many years teaching second languages, I have seen and used many different resources. Of course there is nothing better than...
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Lee Elliott
Jan 18, 20231 min read
Cookies & Korma
Today Jay made himself an omelette as soon as he woke up, then a batch of cookies - he is really getting into cooking and wanting to...
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Lee Elliott
Jan 17, 20231 min read
Taco Tuesday Phyla & Wet MacBook
Today we worked on learning about Carl Von Linné and his system of animal classification. We explored and spoke about the various Phyla...
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Lee Elliott
Jan 16, 20231 min read
Making Expat Cornish Pasties - Wk2 2023
Week-2 Jay made Cornish pasties. We spoke about our Celtic heritage, the history of Cornish tin mining, the development of the pasty and...
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Lee Elliott
Jan 16, 20232 min read
Our Hobo Stew After Dinner Conversation - Wk3 2023
Jay and Holly discuss what they have learned today over our hobo stew dinner. We managed to find forgotten canned food - spinach,...
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Lee Elliott
Jan 16, 20231 min read
Animal Classification - Wk3 2023
Carl Von Linné (1707-1778) was a Swedish academic who devised what the international, scientific community continue to use today as a way...
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Lee Elliott
Jan 16, 20231 min read
Library Humor - Wk2 2023
Too funny! The local library just found the note my children left under the white king on their giant chess set after our games. They...
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Lee Elliott
Jan 16, 20233 min read
Hobo, Mulligan, or Community Stew - Wk3 2023
Today is Martin Luther King Day. Across America many people volunteer on this day to help out at homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and do...
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Lee Elliott
Jan 14, 20231 min read
Elliott Homeschool Schedule - Wk3 2023
MONDAY MLK Day of Service. Volunteering at Food Bank of the Southern Tier: https://foodbankst.volunteerhub.com/event/bf8ca4ea-6f13-418b-9...
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Lee Elliott
Jan 14, 20231 min read
Elliott Cooking School Menu - Wk3 2023
Sunday 15th: Jay Research online or in our cooking book library how to make Chicken & Broccoli Alfredo. Budget and source ingredients....
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Lee Elliott
Jan 14, 20231 min read
West Elmira Library Homeschool Group - Wk2 2023
On Wednesday we visited West Elmira Library who host a weekly get together for local homeschoolers. They learned about Morse Code and how...
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Lee Elliott
Jan 14, 20231 min read
Tanglewood Nature Center & Museum - Wk2 2023
On Wednesday we visited Tanglewood Nature Center & Museum. We saw their collection of owls, snakes, lizards, and a large tortoise that...
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Lee Elliott
Jan 14, 20231 min read
Teen Space Advisory & MakerSpace - Wk2 2023
On Tuesday we visited Steele Memorial Library to source and reserve reference materials for our upcoming personal projects in Humanities...
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