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Road Trip USA Winner

May142011

Congratulations to Dony for winning the Road Trip USA History and Geography Curriculum. … [Continue reading...]

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Planned, but Not Implemented ~ Preschool Corner

May132011

This week everything was laid out and planned. And it all would have gone wonderfully well if our plans hadn’t been interrupted by life. :) Allergies have hit our house hard over the last few weeks and I am very much ready to have a week that goes by WITHOUT a visit to the doctor’s office and another reason to make Target my pharmacy of choice. Kaleb was the one that had the ear infection this … [Continue reading...]

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Deep in My Heart

May122011

Over the last two months, I’ve been spending time most mornings reading from Sally Clarkson’s book Seasons of a Mother’s Heart. It has truly been a most encouraging book for me on so many different levels, challenging me in ways and providing ‘lightbulb’ moments in others. There are so many times that I am asked the ‘why’ behind our homeschooling. While there may be different things that trigger … [Continue reading...]

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The Garden is IN!

May92011

Phew! This past weekend I managed to find the rest of the plants that I was wanting for our raised beds as a part of Square Foot Gardening. After swatting off a few hundred thousand flies, zip-tying the anti-deer netting to the posts around the garden and watering all the squares, I called it a day! We did manage to get a ‘gate’ of sorts up with a piece of chicken wire since we were about 3 … [Continue reading...]

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Pockets of Air ~ Science Sunday

May82011

Question of the Week…Will a crumpled up napkin placed in the bottom of a cup get wet when the cup is placed upside down in a bowl of water? Items we used for this experiment: ~ bowl ~ water ~ plastic cup {we used one we could see through} ~ napkin Predictions and Experiment… Each of the kids made a prediction about what they thought would happen to the napkin when we put it into the cup, … [Continue reading...]

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Planning Might Help ~ Preschool Corner

May62011

Lesson learned this week…and really, one would have thought that I should have caught onto this before. I need to be better organized on our ‘off’ weeks. {Sigh}. We have been rotating our ‘schedule’ lately. One week we do a preschool pack and the next we have a more ‘laid back’ week: Kumon workbooks, our All About Reading program, Bible devotionals, etc… Unfortunately for Kaleb, I don’t focus … [Continue reading...]

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