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Friday, October 9, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Happy Johnny Appleseed Day! (9/26)
I am posting this early so you can be prepared ahead of time if you are looking for some fun ideas for the day. I vividly remember being apart of a Johnny Appleseed play in grade school. I was his teacher. He is a fun figure to learn about no matter how much of the story is true or not.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Cute Idea
Stumbled across this site today with a cute idea...time capsules in a tube.
Matter of fact, the whole site is a great find!
Let's Explore
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Lunch Ideas
Tired of the same old lunches? Need new ideas? Large Family Logistics has a great lunch menu including a grocery list. This would be great for large families, but it could be used for multiple meals as well.
Enjoy!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Science
If you are like me, science in the Elementary years is not always at the top of the list. Thankfully, God made "science" all around us! On the days that we never get to the actual science book, my kids are still finding ways to enjoy and learn about "science".
I think nature is a favorite subject around here. This year we are using Apologia's Zoology 1 about flying creatures.
We did get to our lesson today and the kids did a nature scavenger hunt in the backyard. We plan to take our list to the park tomorrow to find more things that are on the list.
Some things we enjoy doing anytime, not just "school time" is reading Christian Liberty Nature Readers. They are very intersting stories about insects and animals in nature.
Another favorite is anything written by Thornton W. Burgess. Wonderful, fun stories that teach children about birds and animals.
My kids keep a nature notebook and draw pictures of things they find in nature. We have had a guest living next door to us eating apples from the apple tree. We live in the city, so it is very funny see this right in the next yard.
We can't decide if it is a groundhog or a woodchuck. When we see things like this, we get the notebook out and The Handbook of Nature Study and draw what we see.
Well, I guess my eight year old decided what she thought it was. :)
Did you know that those noisy bugs that you hear in the trees in the late summer are called cicada bugs? Did you know that those yucky shells on the trees are theirs? Did you know that they spend 17 years in the ground before they climb up and shed their skin on the tree? I didn't know that! I was always told that they were locust shells.
Btw, I love their summer sound!
Links for more nature fun!
Handbook of nature Study~Looking for ways to use the book? Check this blog out!
**ignore the dates in the photos. My camera is wacky.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Laptop Giveaway!
Do you know how much better my life would be if I won a laptop?! It would be awesome. Check out these giveaways from some great blogs!
Friday, August 28, 2009
Week 1
It was a great first week! So far, I am enjoying the new stuff and the kids seem to enjoy it too. Had all my lessons planned out. Let's see how long it lasts. That is my goal this year, to plan! I know that it will make things run smoother and we will get more done.
How was your week?
Saturday, August 22, 2009
New Year
Has it really been since June since I posted? Wow! Is anybody still checking on me? LOL! It has been a tough year and I must say that Facebook has become my new love. :) A lot of the reasons why I wanted a blog are now satisfied through FB. I love my blog and I do miss visiting my bloggy friends. There is just not enough time in a day! But, the main reason for my blog is to share homeschool ideas, resources and to keep a record of our "doings", so I must report our curriculum choices this year.
10th Grade
Teaching Textbook Geometry
Notgrass American History (which includes 3 credits for Lit, Bible, History)
Vocabulary from Classical Roots
Apologia Chemistry (co-op)
Spanish (co-op)
Writing (co-op)
The child is begging me to get his worker's permit and to get a job. I figure it would be great and he would be saving money to take some extra classes at the community college, I am just reluctant to put him in a bad environment.
6th Grade
Teaching Textbooks 6
Rod & Staff English
Beautiful Feet American History (intermediate)
ABeka Spelling
Cursive copywork/dictation
Beautiful Feet Geography (home and co-op)
Writing (co-op)
Indiana History (co-op)
Apologia Zoology 1
3rd Grade
MUS
Rod & Staff English
Abeka Spelling
A Reason for Handwriting Cursive
Beautiful Feet American History (primary)
Apologia Zoology 1
Indiana History (co-op)
Beautiful Feet Geography
Lots of literature is included in their history, but I also made a list for extra reading.
This is the first year that my 2 younger kids have separate history. We will use the Zoology together though. I can't imagine having more kids! This will be a full day of school! Another change is that we will be at c0-op every Friday this year. The regular group will still meet just 2 Fridays a month, but the high schoolers are doing the credit classes and they need to meet every Friday. It will be a long day when the group meets and we also have the afternoon classes, but it is so worth it to have him sit under a Spanish teacher and to have someone else teach Chemistry!
Monday, June 22, 2009
Almost Complete Sonlight 2 for sale***Sold
Everything is in good used condition. I have very light pencil marks (like check marks and dates) in the IG, but nothing unreadable, no highlighting, easily erasable
2008 Sonlight Core 2 IG Intro Into World History in Binder (5 day)
LA IG for Readers 2 Intermediate (includes unused student sheets)
Grade 2 Intermediate Schedule
All required History and Geography including:
Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime
Good Queen Bess (hb)
Audio Memory Geography Songs Kit (cass)
Michelangelo
Window on the World
Peter the Great
Time Line Figures
Catching Their Talk in a Box
Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky
Explorer’s News
Maps & Globes
Markable Maps and Markers
Usborne World History
Child’s History of the World
Time Traveler: Knights and Castles
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I also have all the read alouds except for:
The Aesop for Children
Castle Diary
A Child’s Garden of Verses
The Minstrel in the Tower
Red Sails to Capri
Tales of Robin Hood
White Stallion of Lipizza
I also have these readers (I used the library for the rest)
The Chalk Box Kid
The Littles
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
Prairie School
A Question of Yams
The Secret Valley
Third Grade Detectives #1
Third Grade Detectives #4
Asking $230 ppd
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