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Month: April 2010

The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks Virtual World Review

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The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks Virtual World is an exciting new massive online virtual world for kids ages 7-14 where players can travel to places around the world, through time and space, meet famous historical people, play fun enriching games, make new friends own exotic islands, build culture-inspired houses, wear all kinds of cool clothing and costumes, explore secret locations, solve ancient mysteries and become a legendary traveler! Munchkin’s thoughts: Munchkin didn’t really care for this virtual world.  She felt it was a bit weird and complicated for her tastes.  She also didn’t feel comfortable with the chat features…

Grand Canyon Adventure: Unexpected Overnight Surprise

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Munchkin has been hoping that she would at least get to see some snow while we were here.  She misses her snow. **grin**  As we were driving here, we saw snow on the mountain peaks.  The closer we got the more snowy mountains we saw.  Then, we saw some snow along the road.  As we turned off the highway to head toward our campground, we saw patches of snow all over the place.  Munchkin started to get excited.  At least she would be able to play in the little patch of snow.  This made her more than a little happy.…

Going to the Grand Canyon

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I’m so excited! We are finally on our way to the Grand Canyon.  We have planned to go more than once since we moved to Arizona this past summer, but it never worked out.  After some other tentative plans fell through, we decided to head there this week.  I scrambled around and found a campground for us to stay at (in our travel trailer).  We should have internet access, but I’m not sure how much I’ll be posting this week. The temperature there is going to be much colder than we are use to, so it should be interesting.  We…

Homeschooling: Too Much To Do, Too Little Time?

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When I first started homeschooling Munchkin, I had grand plans of all of the wonderful things that we were going work on, and all these fun things we were going to do.  All too quickly I learned that there was no way to do everything that we wanted to do, and I also learned that if we tried to do it all, we would both become burned out on homeschooling. Over the years, we stepped away from many school-at-home type activities.  We’ve become more relaxed about homeschooling.  We’ve also learned to have more fun with homeschooling.  I’ve also worked with…