Posted in cool sites, math on Mar 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Here’s a wonderful little printable store kit for kids that I found online. There’s a cover, receipts, coupons, price tags and more. Neat! I’m printing it out now for Jack and Anna, who have been making money and selling things all morning. I also printed out this money from Donna Young. The million dollar bills […]
Posted in Jack, Victoria, Anna, vocabulary, Lapbooks, Daily log, social studies, math, reading, history, art, writing on Mar 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Just logging for our records….
Victoria~
Has been doing 10 minute math book pages for fun
Started researching freedom quilts and the underground railroad with Daddy
Still working on Amelia Earhardt lapbook (vocabulary, timeline, more)
Japanese class
Made paper quilts in traditional styles from construction paper shapes
Dyed eggs with a variety of dye techniques
Reading a variety of children’s magazines
Preparing interview […]
Posted in Victoria, cool sites, geography, Jack, Anna, Japanese, PE, Daily log, social studies, math, writing, reading, science, art, history, Uncategorized on Mar 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to lately in various subjects….
Literature–
Reading “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” together
Reading classic poetry to Jack and Anna at bedtime
Victoria just finished a novel (can’t remember which one) and has been reading old magazines.
We’ve been reading lots of books to Jack.
Daryl is reading another Sadie Rose novel to Anna.
Anna […]
Posted in nature, lesson plans, art, science, math, writing on Mar 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
ARG! I just spent an hour gathering all my links and plans for the week, clicked on publish, and had the site go down as it was sending. When it came back some minutes later, only half of my original draft and the links remained. I’m going to […]
Posted in cool sites, games, math on Mar 12th, 2008 No Comments »
This game is maddening and fun, and happens to rely on addition facts. Careful, it’s addictive!
Posted in math on Mar 9th, 2008 No Comments »
A friend’s little girl likes me to e-mail her math problems. Today she wrote and asked for some and I sent copies to my girls so they could answer them too. Here’s an example of what I send. It’s a quick and easy way to encourage kids to do math even if they usually hate […]
Posted in Fun, math on Mar 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Our friends Guy and Val dropped by today on their way back home from a vacation out of state. Val brought along a big box of blocks from her childhood. They’re big study wooden blocks in all different shapes and sizes, and some of the unfinished ones have kid art on them from over 30 […]
Posted in Daily log, math on Mar 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
I’m still getting caught up here at home but I thought I’d post a quick entry of some of what we’ve been up to. Here’s a bit of what we’ve been doing the past 2 or 3 days….
Our wonderful friends Val and Guy gave the kids their own computer stocked with some games picked specifically […]
Posted in cooking/home ec, art, holidays, science, math on Feb 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Valentine’s Day: theme by theme….
Here’s ways to work the holiday into every subject. I wrote this for my newsletter a few years ago & I haven’t rechecked the links yet, so apologies if any are dead.
Art:
This site has instructions on how to make a beautiful little heart shaped scrapbook
http://crafterscommunity.com/view/220/Valentine_Scrap_Book […]
Posted in cool sites, games, math on Feb 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
I discovered a list of great math blogs today and on one of them I found this little math game. I’m going to print some out and try it with the kids. I don’t think it will work well for us as a competition but as a group effort it could be pretty cool. I […]
I'm a frazzled AP mom to 4 fabulous kids in rural Minnesota. Homeschooling here tends to be child-led and focused on fun. We do lots of crafts, reading and exploring. I'm madly in love with my brilliant, goofy lug of a husband and I don't get nearly enough sleep.