Posted in challenges, cooking/home ec, nature, science, spelling on Mar 12th, 2013 No Comments »
Here’s a few assorted links I’ve found lately that I thought were worth keeping. I’m posting these here in case they help others and also so I can find the sites later when I need them! I’d pin them but in most cases, they don’t have pinnable images. 4th Grade Spelling lists… We don’t [...]
Posted in Book Recommendations, challenges on Oct 6th, 2010 2 Comments »
We’re taking part in a fun challenge this month. We joined in the MHL Reading Challenge. It’s especially timely for us since we’re leaving today for History Fest, where we’ll be running the Betsy-Tacy booth in costumes and teaching old time games and such. Click here for more info on MHL and Betsy-Tacy (the books [...]
Posted in art, challenges, cool sites, Daily log on Mar 1st, 2010 3 Comments »
Here’s a bit more of what we’ve been up to! Victoria has been drawing wildflowers she found in the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer magazine. They’re lovely! She gave me a picture of a lady slipper because she said she thought it would remind me of spring. Daryl read Jack a picture book about St. Patrick’s Day [...]
Posted in challenges, games, geography on Aug 31st, 2009 1 Comment »
Here’s a fun little online challenge. Type in as many countries as you can in 5 minutes and see how you compare to others! This was harder than I thought. I only got 39. Egads! I kept drawing a blank. What a fun way to get kids thinking about countries. Plus, they can read [...]
Posted in challenges, cooking/home ec, crafts, Fun, pictures on Apr 6th, 2009 3 Comments »
Just checking in for our “Make something cool every day” challenge. Here’s what we’ve done so far…. Day 1: Made colored bath cubes Day 2: Invented apple-raspberry iced tea (we steeped 3 green tea bags and 2 standard tea bags in boiling water and added hot water to make a gallon, and then added 1/3 [...]
Posted in art, challenges, cooking/home ec, crafts on Apr 1st, 2009 3 Comments »
Dabbled is embarking on a “Make something cool every day” challenge for the month of April and is inviting others to play along. We’re going to take part and I’ll post weekly updates here. You can take part in whatever way you like (crafts, cooking, photography, art…) and you don’t have to take part every [...]
Posted in Anna, challenges, cool sites, writing on Apr 1st, 2009 1 Comment »
Risa recently recommended the web site Homeschool Kids Write and yesterday we took part for the first time. Anna wrote an essay in response to the “Seward’s Folly” assignment — write about a time when you bought something that others thought was foolish. Of course, I read the assignment and then gave it to her [...]
Posted in challenges, science on Mar 27th, 2009 1 Comment »
This Saturday at 8:30 p.m. (your time) is Earth Hour. People, companies and cities are turning off their lights in one way or another for one hour. Visit the Earth Hour web site to find out why, join the discussion about whether it’s valid or not, view pics and videos and learn more about global [...]
Posted in art, challenges, science, Unplug Your Kids on Feb 3rd, 2009 9 Comments »
This week’s theme at Unplug Your Kids was color and it fit perfectly in with an activity that the kids did. Stores have been giving away 3D glasses to promote an upcoming movie and an ad that was supposed to play during the Superbowl yesterday. We had several pairs and the kids anxiously waited [...]
Posted in art, challenges, Unplug Your Kids on Jan 12th, 2009 10 Comments »
This week’s Unplug Your Kids theme was square. I used this project from Art Projects for Kids as an inspiration and then printed out some graph paper with 1/2″ large squares here. I gave each child a piece of graph paper and told them to draw a basic shape on it, fairly large. I said [...]
