It's safe to say that at our house we like bugs.
Where our family takes refuge, holds up for the winter, and learns both discipline and joy.
Monday, November 23, 2020
It's a Bug Life
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Gently Giants
This week we've begun the long awaited journey of talking about genetics. Key learning words for this week have been allele, chromosomes, dominant, gene, traits, and heredity. We had a bit of a celebration in store as Astor had his 7th birthday. He has been obsessing about animals lately, planning an animal rescue mission with his cousin. He asked if we could go see the gentle giants at Young Living's farm in Mona, Utah for is birthday. It was arranged and fit perfectly with our science lessons this week. There was a lively discussion about where we get our different traits from with an object lesson. Astor received as a gift, a pair of horses with a surprise foal inside and we talked about how the foal has some things from the father and some things from the mother and it introduced our birthday activity perfectly.
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Saturday, November 7, 2020
Little Tree and Elbow Grease
Our school has a name. It's the same name we've given our home and life and everything we hope to accomplish. And even though we don't know the future, we love our little homeschool! Palenque is our name. It means a holding post. It's where a horse is broken and trained. And to our kids it means that we throw ourselves into life for them. We create our home as a reflexion of what we want to grow into.

Ada took charge of changing the filter.
Each of the kids took pride in their part and learned the methodical care that is taken when performing an important job.
Sunday, November 1, 2020
Sloths, Penguins, Fish.
Animalia
The words we use and the words we learn go far in determining the direction of our lives. This week at work I saw, played out, in perfect e...
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In every endeavor and every goal we get to a certain point and have to reflect. We pause and look around us, observe the patterns and result...
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It's hard to explain what it has meant for our family to live around farms and animals. In actuality we're from in-town and miss the...
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At the Holding Post, we share a dream with farmers across the nation in providing healthy fresh food with an eye to conservation. Farm Bill...