Homeschool Creations

Gearing up for Geography ~ Preschool Corner {& 5K too!}

Jul132012

The school room is {still} a mess. There are boatloads of things to do to get ready for the upcoming school year. In the meantime, I’m having fun figuring out our game plan for the upcoming school year and getting all of the pieces we need in place. For Kaleb, we’re going to be working on some geography together over the course of the year. He doesn’t know it yet, but we’ll be using Little … [Continue reading...]

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Current Read-Aloud ~ Darien’s Rise {AIO Passages}

Jul122012

Although I had pulled out the Borrowers series for us to read, the kid’s weren’t too excited about it. {Don’t worry, I’m keeping them handy}. Fortunately, I bought a big pile of books at a recent homeschool book sale, so there were plenty of books to choose from. Darien’s Rise by Paul McCusker Our kids love the audio cd’s from Adventures in Odyssey, so we I pulled out the first book in the … [Continue reading...]

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Curriculum Clean Out Fall{ish} 2012 Coming Soon!

Jul112012

Start looking over your shelves, grab a pencil and mark your calendars!! The Curriculum Clean Out is coming soon! From July 30th through August 4th I’ll be hosting a curriculum ‘giveaway’ of sorts here. Everyone loves to win things and giveaways are fun ~ so lets do it all together! Many of us will be starting up our school years {kudos to you if you already are!}, and you may have come across … [Continue reading...]

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Number Word Printables for Read! Build! Write! Mats

Jul92012

I have a few different number word card printables to share with you all today that will go along with the Read! Build! Write! Mats. This coming year we’ll be working more on number words, so I pulled together a few different pages to use with the number words 1 – 20. There are two different sets of word cards. One set for the numbers 1-10 allows your child to also count using 1:1 … [Continue reading...]

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The Turtle with Half a Leg ~ Moments to Remember

Jul72012

Moments to Remember was developed as a simple way to look back on our week as homeschoolers and find photos that encompass the memories we want to remember. The week may have been tough, there may have been more bumps than smiles, but in the end these are the moments that keep us going, the ones we need to remember. Last year the kids were so excited to find a turtle roaming around in our … [Continue reading...]

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It’s Just Hot ~ Preschool Corner {& 5K too}

Jul62012

Oh, I thought that we would be doing some fun things this week, but unless that fun involved swimming in cool water or sitting and enjoying the nice cool air conditioning ~ well, it just didn’t happen. We have MUCH to be thankful for this week. Last Friday night some freak storms went rampant through our area and many of our friends {just within a 20 minute radius} were without power and/or water … [Continue reading...]

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