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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...
Lee Elliott
Feb 1, 20231 min read
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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,...
Lee Elliott
Feb 1, 20231 min read
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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...
Lee Elliott
Feb 1, 20231 min read
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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...
Lee Elliott
Jan 20, 20231 min read
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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...
Lee Elliott
Jan 19, 20231 min read
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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...
Lee Elliott
Jan 18, 20231 min read
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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...
Lee Elliott
Jan 17, 20231 min read
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Lee Elliott
Jan 16, 20230 min read
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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...
Lee Elliott
Jan 16, 20231 min read
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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,...
Lee Elliott
Jan 16, 20232 min read
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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...
Lee Elliott
Jan 16, 20231 min read
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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...
Lee Elliott
Jan 16, 20231 min read
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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...
Lee Elliott
Jan 16, 20233 min read
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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...
Lee Elliott
Jan 14, 20231 min read
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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....
Lee Elliott
Jan 14, 20231 min read
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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...
Lee Elliott
Jan 14, 20231 min read
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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...
Lee Elliott
Jan 14, 20231 min read
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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...
Lee Elliott
Jan 14, 20231 min read
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