Posted in Daily log, cool sites, personal, spelling on Mar 9th, 2010 4 Comments »
We are back from our mini-vacation and kids’ conference and I’ll post all about it soon, but I have a migraine and am exhausted so for tonight this will have to do!
1. Check out all of these HS freebies. Gadzooks. I’m gonna lose a lot of time on this site.
2. Overheard at the Writers and [...]
Posted in Daddy, Daily log, Fun, Grammar, cooking/home ec, personal, pictures, spelling, writing on Dec 9th, 2009 5 Comments »
It’s that time again. I should be sleeping, or failing that I should be cleaning, and instead I’m up too late on the internet. We’re buried in snow and not going anywhere for a while though, so I’m up with the snow and the wind and the moonlight.
Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up [...]
Posted in spelling on Oct 23rd, 2009 13 Comments »
Quick, think back to how you were taught to spell the word and then check out the discussion here.
Daryl and I were both taught to spell it wrong. It seems there are a lot of people who swear they’ve been spelling it right all of these years and were similarly misled.
I get a kick out [...]
Posted in Fun, Grammar, history, math, science, spelling, writing on Jul 18th, 2009 1 Comment »
It’s kind of gray and dreary here today. Daryl and the little kids are off working on the set and he and the girls have a performance tonight. Victoria is home sick and playing the physics game I posted before. Tomorrow we’re heading to Mankato so the girls can volunteer (in period costume) at a [...]
Posted in reading, spelling, video on Jul 12th, 2009 1 Comment »
I love this cute little video from the Electric Company way back when.
Posted in Daily log, Jack, PE, Victoria, geography, math, nature, pictures, reading, science, spelling on Jun 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to this week…
1. Jack started T-ball for the first time ever! He did great and we’re really excited for him.
2. We’ve been studying the Rainforest — reading books, learning songs, making rainforest mix and match bread, doing rainforest spelling words and putting them in alphabetical order, talking [...]
Posted in Fun, Grammar, games, history, math, social studies, spelling, writing on Mar 23rd, 2009 3 Comments »
1. Do spelling tosses. Gather up a bowl of tossable goodies (popcorn works well, M&M’s are a little too small and chokeable!) and start assigning spelling words (or multiplication questions or whatever you’d like to drill). If the kids get them right, you toss a goodie into their laughing mouths. If not, try another word. [...]
Posted in Fun, spelling, vocabulary on Mar 1st, 2009 3 Comments »
We’re all in various stages of illness here, me and Alex especially. Tonight we had an easy supper of pizza and peas, and it seemed a little too alliterative to pass up. The kids and I declared it P night!
We….
Had Pepperoni Pizza and Peas for supper
Ate in Pink, Purple and Pajamas
Had Pink ice cream for [...]
Posted in Grammar, spelling on Jan 2nd, 2009 2 Comments »
I’ve written up the following sentences for 3 little girls to fix. There is at least one error (spelling or punctuation) in each one. I’ll post the answers in my post tomorrow. Bonus points for catching any accidental extra mistakes I make!
1. Three lovely monkies are dancing on the piano.
2. I’m so [...]
Posted in spelling on Dec 27th, 2008 3 Comments »
We homeschool in that gray area of not quite unschooling. I call us “relaxed, eclectic” homeschoolers because it sums us up best and also nicely avoids labels where there are rules we have to follow.
Yes, I am so anti-authority that I balk at unschooling rules.
I have also been on the wrong end of [...]
