Posted in freebies, reading on Aug 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Pizza Hut is accepting homeschool enrollments for its “Book It” program again for kids in grades K-6. You can enroll online here to sign up and get their program packet.
Keep in mind that kids need to be genuinely kindergarten age to participate, so if you’re doing a K curriculum with your 3 year old you […]
Posted in Preschool, Lapbooks, Jack, reading on Jul 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Jack chose the letter A to do a lapbook on this week. I have to say it was much easier than usual — no web searches for images or handouts, no intricate cutting and arranging.
We made some letter A’s together, found some stickers of things that started with A, found and drew some other images […]
Posted in reading on Jul 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Cricket is running a special of $6 off magazine subscriptions for any of their children’s magazines, which include Babybug, Cricket, Muse, Calliope and lots more. They have magazines for various age groups from toddlers to teens and they have different focuses, like literature, history or science.
Victoria and Anna both have subscriptions and they love them. […]
Posted in Daily log, nature, PE, magical moments, social studies, art, math, reading, science, writing on Jun 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Three random ways the kids learned in each subject the past few days….
Math
Jack was answering addition and subtraction questions for goldfish crackers in Guy and Val’s hotel room this morning.
Victoria did some math pages to earn extra computer time.
The kids’ computer is hooked up to the net now in the living room and Anna instant […]
Posted in history, science, reading on Jun 18th, 2008 No Comments »
I was browsing another HS mom’s Library Thing list a few weeks ago and discovered these 3 books. They were on her 5 star list– books her family owned that she’d buy more copies of if the house burned down. I like that rating! We have some books like that!
I ordered them and […]
Posted in plays, reading on Jun 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Daryl adapted a segment of the first Betsy-Tacy book for reader’s theater. In reader’s theater, the cast members simply read their parts like several people telling a story. There is the fun of acting without the trouble of memorizing parts, making stages and such. The participants can have fun dressing the part and gathering props […]
Posted in plans for the day, Field trips & tours, history, reading on Jun 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
We’re attending a Victorian lawn party at Tacy’s house from the Betsy-Tacy book series today.
Daryl is a volunteer for the Betsy-Tacy society and he has created reader theater plays, scanned books, made coloring pages and more for them. We have visited Tacy’s house several times before for various events and it is always fun.
The Betsy-Tacy […]
Posted in Jack, Anna, Victoria, nature, reading, Daily log, math on Jun 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
We’re not officially doing school at the moment (do we ever? LOL) but it sneaks in anyway. Here’s a few ways the kids have managed to learn despite the (mostly) wonderful weather.
Jack announced yesterday that he could count to 400 by fifties. He did it for me and later counted all the way to 950 […]
Posted in Preschool, Jack, pictures, reading on Jun 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Anna and I made up a set of cards for Jack to play reading games with the other day.
We drew simple pictures on half the cards and I wrote the words for the images on the other half. Then we gave them to Jack to spread out.
He spread them in a big heart shape on […]
Posted in Victoria, deep thoughts, Field trips & tours, magical moments, cool sites, pictures, science, history, social studies, Fun, reading on May 30th, 2008 2 Comments »
Here’s Victoria’s answers for the best list.
Best books read: Molly Moon series
Best math game or activity: Running the lemonade stand
Best reading/spelling/grammar game or activity: Blogging and emailing (with spell check)
Best field trip: Maine
Best science experiment: The mold comparison experiment
Best science activity: Collecting different kinds of seaweed at the ocean, pouring seawater on the acorn barnacles […]
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.