Magic and Mayhem

I found this infographic online and thought it was worth sharing.  Thoughts? Via: OnlineEducation.net  

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Oh my goodness, I’m so behind in this sort of thing!  I’m not sure I’ll even remember much of what we’ve been up to.  Here’s a bit though! 1.  We went to a Civil War Days reenactment and had a fabulous time.  We watched a battle, learned to do various ballroom dances, listened to Lincoln [...]

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Examiner.com is redesigning their whole site, which means articles are wonky, pictures are missing, errors are widespread, and for a few examiners, entire columns are missing. Yep, I’m one of the unlucky few. If you follow my homeschooling column, you probably already know that it’s all gone — all redirected to someone else’s page no [...]

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Are you following along with Susan’s “Around the World” curriculum?  Even though I am as good at following schedules and lesson plans as I am at speaking Portugese (note: I do not speak Portugese), it just sounds so fun that I’m going for it!    Besides, it’s the sort of thing my kids eat up! [...]

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We’re off to visit Tiffany and company again.  Plans include lots of nifty stuff, and lots of tea.    I’ll try to check in!

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We’re off to Mankato to take part in a Betsy-Tacy birthday party.  Victoria will be playing Tacy and Annalee will be Tib in this.  If you want to see more pictures from past Betsy-Tacy events, I put some here too. By the way, if you haven’t read the Betsy-Tacy series and you like books like [...]

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It would simply take too many pages to possibly sum up our fun time in Nebraska so I’m not going to try!    Instead, here’s ten words and twenty pics that can at least give a taste! Zany Sleepovers Tea Shopping Walks Yapping Tasty Crafting Laughing Family And one more for good measure, because it [...]

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We went to the CSI class in Mankato yesterday and it was so much fun!  Here’s a few pics of all the stuff the kids did… I put up a slide show and wrote a summary here. I highly recommend booking a program for your local HS group!  Thom travels all over the country doing [...]

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I posted a few “Grammar Day” links earlier but I compiled a bunch more today here if you want to celebrate the day with the kids.  I love the story of “Grammar Girl” getting called out for having a grammatical error on the back cover of her book. 

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