Marsha Edminsten - SunnySide Farm, LLC
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Fall Registrations opens now! Click on the class title(s) bellow for more information and to register
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Sewing 101 10 yrs+ Rio Rancho
Sewing 101 10 yrs+ Del Norte Beginning with the basics of cutting, hand sewing, types of seams, simple patchwork projects, mug rugs, & quilt blocks (to be joined and then donated to PLANT.) Then we will move on into sewing Little Dresses for Africa for donating! Students must bring their own machines and notions. Parents are encouraged to attend with their students, or enroll for themselves! Sample fabrics, iron, ironing mats, marking pens & starch will be provided. |
Journalism 101 6th grade + Del Norte
Let's create a newspaper! Writing & Publishing news related to PLANT and other items related to home education we declare Newsworthy, we will create an operational paper while learning lead writing, interviews, AP style & feature writing. Working in teams, and Editor-in-Chief, Assistant Editor-in-Chief and a Copy Editor will be selected. If you are seeking to build your leadership and organizational skills, this could be a great fit! |
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Fun on the Farm 3-8 yrs
Exploring farm themes such as the people, animals, growing things, farm to your house we will use art, cooking/snacks, comprehension, language & math with learning centers an games, music & dramatic play. Scalpels & Needles & Pin, Oh My! goes on the road!I am available to facilitate dissection workshops for your co-op or group at location of your choice. Single specimens workshops or multiple. Email for details - [email protected]
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Scalpels & Needles & Pins, Oh My! 8+ - Rio Rancho
Scalpels & Needles & Pins, Oh My! 8+ - Del Norte Dissection can be fun! We will focus on the Animal Kingdom: earthworm, owl pellet, grasshopper, sea star, snake, frog, heart, brain & eye. Microscope projects will be available, as well as downloadable materials to extend the units at home (optional.) Teamwork, parents are asked to volunteer at least once depending on the number of students. |
Institute for Excellence in Writing Classes
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Fables, Myths & Fairy Tales
4th-7th grades (yr long) Let your student's imaginations soar while enjoying classic children's tales and learning to write with structure and style! IEW's wide variety of adventures will supply a rich foundation for imaginative and enjoyable writing. |
Bible Based Writing Lessons
6-12th grades (yr long) This collection of writing lessons provides an incredible opportunity to increase your student's understanding of Scripture and they improve their writing abilities. Working through all of IEW's nine units - and behind, these writing lessons use actual passages from Scripture as source texts. |
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The Elegant Essay 9-12th gr The Elegant
Essay course teaches students the form of essay writing, that is, the basic structure or format or organization that undergirds all types of essays. Before they tackle this course, students should be able to write an understandable paragraph with a. topic and cliches sentence. |
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Spring 2025
Sewing 102 10+ Rio Rancho
Sewing 102 10+ Del Norte Sample fabrics, iron, pressing mats, fusible for the appliqué, marking pens & starch provided. We will continue with a few basics and move into more complicated projects such as quilt blocks, scrappy appliqué, discuss color(s) and move into fabric dying and using those fabrics for a project. |
Journalism 102 Del Norte
Collaborating with Photography classes and continuing with writing & publishing news related to PLANT, AHSA, home educators and any other items this team declares “newsworthy” and with our newspaper up and running, we will move into Publishing a Yearbook! |
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Physics fun! 3-8 years Del Norte
Can children this age learn about Physics? We can! Through hands on experiments we will learn about the study of matter & energy and how these two interact. We want to think, observe, question and experiment. That is utilizing the Scientific Method! |
Who were the Mountain Men? K-12, Del Norte
Who were the mountain men? What drove them to cover the vast territory that they did? combining geography, commerce & Trade, survival, black powder weaponry, tomahawks, knives, trapping, food(s), clothing, beadwork, scrimshaw, parfleches, fire starting, plain sign language and authentic campfire stories all culminating in our own Rendezvous. |
Simple Chemistry 8 + Del Norte
Simple Chemistry 8+ Rio Rancho
Properties of materials, states of matter, substances & characteristic properties, mixtures & separating into original substances, elements and organization of the periodic table, forming new substances; hand's-on experiments, utilizing record sheets that facilitate the process of scientific inquiry; create a timeline of Atomic Theory
Simple Chemistry 8+ Rio Rancho
Properties of materials, states of matter, substances & characteristic properties, mixtures & separating into original substances, elements and organization of the periodic table, forming new substances; hand's-on experiments, utilizing record sheets that facilitate the process of scientific inquiry; create a timeline of Atomic Theory
See Past Classes:
Elegant Essay Beatrix Potter Bibles & Rainbows & Planets & Kings Ancient History Based Writing Lessons IEW Grades 4 - 8
Following Narnia: Aslan's Country Writing Lessons IEW Grades 6+ PreSchool Exploring Creation with Science
Lessons From Little House Scalpels and Needles and Pins! Oh My! Journey Through Ancient Egypt - Tuesday section
Considering God's Creation 2nd - 7th grade All Things Fun & Fascinating IEW - 3rd - 5th grades
Medieval History Based Writing Lessons IEW 6th + Following Narnia: The Lion's Song IEW 6th +
SunnySide Farm, LLC grew out of my mission statement I wrote over twenty years ago. It is my goal to enrich the lives of others. Growing up in Oklahoma in a dairy farming family, I learned gardening, canning, sewing, animal husbandry and more, in a multigenerational setting. After graduating from Oklahoma State, BS in Animal Science, I was employed with the USDA before becoming a home educator for twenty-five years. I began teaching co-ops, which led to hundreds of students in four different states. The next logical step after our children graduated was to create a business doing what I loved.
Unafraid to tackle weird subjects with up to 50 students at a time, comprised of various ages together in one class, I have taught Archaeology, Bible, Biology, Plants, Simple Chemistry, CSI, Cultures and History. Enriching my life was not what I expected setting out, but I have been blessed!