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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Tribute to my Dad
By Sam Martin I am writing this because this is my entry in a contest to explain how great my dad is. Even if I wasn’t in the contest I still think he’s great. One of the great things about him is that he plays with me. I like it when he tickles and wrestles [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Life
Blue Socks
Are still on the needles… even after a year. I just finished the afterthought heels last night. they are so comfy. I really, really can’t wait to wear them. I do knit on them now and then, really. But a lack of time coupled with a very fine yarn makes for veeeeeery slooooooooow progress. I [...]
Posted in Fiber Arts, Knitting
Games on the cheap
I’ve bearching for some frugal ways to augment our history lessons by playing games that people would have played then. I found some great resources: Egyptian Life: an online Senet game http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/life/activity/main.html Nine Man Morris: printable game board http://www.themathlab.com/games/Nine%20Man%20Morris/nineman.htm Royal Game of UR: freeware version to play on your computer http://www.xmission.com/~psneeley/Shareware/ur.htm Bryanna’s Treasure Box: inexpensive [...]
Posted in Games, Homeschooling
More Sparks
One of the things I’m really enjoying about homeschooling is being there to watch those learning sparks fly. See those connections when they happen. Today, Sam was working on grammar identifying parts of a sentence. He was questioning something when I realized this was like doing Writing Strands in reverse. In WS, he’s been starting [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Life
Nifty Idea
Mini offices full of needed reference information for the kids as they do their daily studies. The end of the linked blog entry has some links to printables for this idea. You could do one for each subject. Hmmm… must find out how much laminating is at Kinkos or the UPS store. For Sam I [...]
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Sparks a-Flyin’
This was a really great morning learning-wise. Jessie came down after doing her morning routine. She was very excited, jumping up and down, and wanted me to come see how she cleaned her room. Here is a picture of her with her “cleaning.” All her foam letters and numbers were sorted by color in neat [...]
Posted in Homeschooling
First Lapbook
I finally figured out how to display and store Jessie’s items from Brightly Beaming… lapbooks! Don’t know why this would work better than putting them in page protectors in a binder. LOL! But even Jessie responded well to it. ‘Course she wanted to stamp and color everything regardless. I was hoping for just one stamp [...]
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Assimilation
After reading about this on a blog somewhere… wish I could remember which one so I could link to it at The Thinking Mother… I thought “what the heck!” So you’ll now see a graphic with my Amazon Affiliate link in the left column. Basically, if you click it, then do your shopping (paying for [...]
Posted in Life
Funschool
Today… errr, yesterday (it is after midnight) was another edition of funschool here. While I am liking this concept I will be putting some parameters on it next week. Today for math we tried out a new to us book called Math Wizardry for Kids. Jeepers! You should have seen all the light bulb moments [...]
Posted in Homeschooling
Pictures
Doesn’t this guy look grumpy?!? ‘Course I guess I would too if my back legs were pinned in a giant’s grip. LOL! I keep forgetting to post that I’ve added some new photos to my Picassa web album for July. This link will take you to the first one of the latest batch. There’s more [...]
Posted in Life