Flower Petals

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Our First Award!

Our friend Marla gave us this lovely award for our efforts to take better care of our planet. Thank you Marla! We appreciate it!

Friday, February 8, 2008

Double PJ, Double Clothes (#3)

This week we are going to wear our clothes and PJs two times to save energy and water. I think it might be hard to remember to wear them for two days. We plan to fold up our clothes that we've only worn once and put them at the end of our beds. We plan to keep doing this after our week is over.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

One Opinion of No Meat Week

C. did not enjoy No Meat Week because he wanted to eat chicken. The chicken-less nuggets we got at Trader Joe's just weren't the same.

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Additionally, C. wanted me to let everyone know that this is the phone number for Shark Boy City. C. is in charge of Shark Boy City if you want to give him a call.

Out With the Old (#2)

This week we are going to go through all of our stuff in our house. We are going to give away all of our clothes we don't need to people that need them. Everything else we don't need we are going to have a yard sale with in the spring. We are going to buy a tree for our yard with the money from our sale.

Sunday, January 6, 2008

NO MEAT WEEK! (#1)

Our family is not going to eat meat for a week because not as many animals will get killed. We planned our meals on our calendar and went to the grocery to get what we need for our no meat week.

WELCOME TO FLOWER PETALS

Our family is trying to take better care of animals and nature. We are trying to think of 50 things to do in a year. We will tell you about what we're doing when we do it. So check back often.

About Us

We are a little family of four. We are very close and spend a lot of time together. We home school or unschool or whatever you want to call it, but our approach to learning hardly resembles the traditional idea of school. We pursue learning and understanding through all of our daily activities. During the years I spent teaching in a public school, this type of learning was known (in the educational lexicon) as those "rare teachable moments". Fortunately, in life those moments aren't very rare at all.

This blog was created for two purposes. First, to serve as a landing place for us to record our efforts as we strive to be more aware of our place on the planet and as we try to help better care for our mother earth and all her living creatures.

Second, aside from the goals of the project itself, we see it as a terrific learning opportunity as our children will be the authors, editors and idea generators of most of the posts. We also see the opportunity to study in depth scientifically, artistically, mathematically and so on some of the topics that will become a part of this larger project.

We hope you enjoy and would be grateful for any ideas you might have for our Flower Petals project.