Latin Phrases Everyone Should Know
Posted in Teens and high school, vocabulary on Feb 17th, 2013 2 Comments »
(Found online, original poster unknown) Any you’d add?
Posted in Teens and high school, vocabulary on Feb 17th, 2013 2 Comments »
(Found online, original poster unknown) Any you’d add?
Posted in Teens and high school, vocabulary on Dec 15th, 2012 2 Comments »
Original list via American Heritage® dictionaries and original graphic via the Write at Home blog (who also host a quiz of the words!). Hmmm… There are a few I need to look up! How about you?
Posted in Fun, games, geography, lesson plans, math, plans for the day, science, vocabulary on Aug 14th, 2011 3 Comments »
It’s been forever since I’ve done one of these posts so I thought I’d throw out some fun alternative HS ideas for the week… Play a homeschool version of Balderdash. Write up a list of vocabulary words and make up some fake and real definitions. Challenge the kids to name the right definition for each [...]
Posted in Charity & Community Good, cool sites, geography, math, vocabulary on Nov 4th, 2009 3 Comments »
Lately when the kids have been playing Webkinz I’ve asked them to do 50 questions in Quizzie’s Corner first, on various subjects. It’s an easy way to sneak in some math, science, language arts and other subjects. Tonight when Victoria came to say goodnight, she told me, “Hey Mom, you know how you have us [...]
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 [...]
Posted in art, Charity & Community Good, Field trips & tours, Fun, geography, math, nutrition, plans for the day, reading, science, social studies, vocabulary, writing on Feb 5th, 2009 3 Comments »
We’re firmly in the winter blahs around here so I’ve been brainstorming ways to perk up our HS days. We have HS swimming tomorrow and HS ice skating the next day, but here are some other things that seemed like fun….. 1. Write dictionary stories. Have kids open up the dictionary to random places, close [...]
Posted in art, crafts, Fun, games, history, holidays, Kindergarten, lesson plans, math, plans for the day, reading, social studies, vocabulary on Nov 26th, 2008 4 Comments »
It’s another cozy day at home for us today, which I really enjoy. Here’s some thoughts I had for ways to fill it. Feel free to join in! 1. Silly similes. Teach the kids what similes are (sim-i-lees– comparison words that use “as” or “like,” as opposed to metaphors which say something is something like [...]
Posted in Fun, games, geography, history, Kindergarten, lesson plans, math, nutrition, plans for the day, Poetry, reading, social studies, vocabulary, writing on Nov 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
We had fun doing some of the 10 fun things to do that I posted the other day so I thought I’d brainstorm 10 more. 1. Make up polls and graph the results. We’ve done favorite ice cream flavors and colors in the past. We even graphed the favorite colors one in M&Ms (I bought [...]
Posted in crafts, Daily log, Field trips & tours, Fun, games, history, PE, pictures, vocabulary on Nov 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
…We’ve done here lately: 1. Daryl and the kids stopped by the museum at Walnut Grove and talked to the new director of the summer festival about ideas for next year’s festivities. 2. Victoria started making her own earrings. 3. The kids played Kids’ Trivial Pursuit. 4. Alex did lots of art while the big [...]
Posted in art, Fun, games, history, lesson plans, plans for the day, Preschool, reading, science, Toddlers, Uncategorized, vocabulary on Nov 12th, 2008 5 Comments »
It’s snowy and dreary here this morning. I desperately need to find the cleaning fairy and chain her to my kitchen, but I also have 4 mostly-darling children in dire need of some plain old fun. Here’s 10 things that are on our list of possibles today. 1. Play hide the phone. This is one [...]