Victoria Day – Legacy of a Young Royal

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  Ever since I was a little girl, I admired the young Princess Alexandrina Victoria, who would become one of the longest reigning royals in the history of Great Britain. Each year, I like to use Victoria Day as a starting point for studies of Canadian geography, history, and government. Queen Victoria had a huge
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Walking with the Penguins

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  Our daughters and grandson have always loved penguins, so when our local zoo opened the largest permanent penguin exhibit in North America, I knew it would be a hit with our family. Home to Humboldt, gentoo, king, and rockhopper, the Penguin Plunge exhibit is a realistic rocky shoreline complete with a waterfall and dive
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Crafting at the Science Center

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  March is now upon us, and with its (hopefully) milder weather come thoughts of moving outdoors with our homeschool activities. We especially enjoy doing crafts and experiments out in the sunshine (so much easier to clean up), and like having the space to spread out. During the colder months we rely on visiting homeschool
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Black History Month Field Trip Ideas

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  From the time I was a little girl I was aware that while children of all colors lived and went to school together in Canada where I lived, this was not always the case in the country we often visited, the U.S.A. I can remember asking my mom why the elderly lady had to
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Saying Goodbye to a Great Man

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  I have always found hearing the horn of a train in the distance to be a lonely sound, particularly on a rainy and foggy day. This feeling was the same as I heard Engine 4141 draw ever nearer to the spot my husband and I had staked out across from the tracks on Wellborn
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Following in the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark

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  Did you know that the original Louisiana Purchase extended north into what are now the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada? When the French ceded its colony in Canada to the British, the boundary between the Hudson Bay territory and Louisiana wasn’t specified. There had seemed no need since there was little settlement
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