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Making Water Spill {Water Cohesion} ~ Science Sunday

Aug292010

This week we did a pretty simple experiment, but one that ALL of the kids enjoyed being a part of {even Kaleb}. It involved two of their favorite things: money and water. What’s not to like about that, eh?   Question of the Week… How many pennies would it take to make the water spill over the top of the bowl? Items we used for this experiment: ~ a bowl ~ water ~ lots of pennies … [Continue reading...]

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Learning About Early Explorers

Aug272010

I generally share bits and pieces about what we’re doing in our school week, but every now and then I am hoping to pull all of the kids together in one post and sum-up what we are doing ~ and participate with Kris in the Weekly Wrap-Up. For our first week I had intended on starting off slow and over the next few weeks adding more as we go along. Turns out the only thing we didn’t have in our day … [Continue reading...]

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Preschool Corner ~ Assessing and Starting Up

Aug272010

I had much bigger plans this week than what we actually accomplished. We thought that Kaleb was feeling better after last week’s bout with sickness, but this week the sickies were lingering so more time was spent holding a feverish boy than completing the lesson plans and activities I had planned. Such is life at times, right? When we WERE able to work, I pulled out some different activities to … [Continue reading...]

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Tired of Being Anonymous?

Aug262010

Several many of you like to enter giveaways or ask questions…but I can’t get ahold of you to reply to your comment. There are several of you who have actually won a giveaway that I’ve held, but because you didn’t leave a comment, someone else won some lovely prizes. Sad, but true. You do not need to have a blog in order to have a blogger profile. Your profile can include two simple things ~ … [Continue reading...]

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ABC Phonics Coloring Pages

Aug242010

While we are trying to get back more into a school routine, I put together some phonics coloring pages for Kaleb to work on each day. I’m trying to assess what he knows for beginning letter sounds so we’re reviewing several each day and talking about the sounds of the letters. There are 26 pages in this pdf set ~ each page is 8 1/2” x 11”. Here’s a quick peek at a few of the pages:   … [Continue reading...]

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{Almost} Fall 2010 Curriculum Clean Out Begins!

Aug222010

Time to Link Up!   If you would like to join in on the Curriculum Clean-Out! and have fun giving away the excess on your shelves, now is the time! Once your post is ready, leave your link below using the MckLinky. Be sure that your post follows the 'rules' of the Clean-Out! ~ and please be sure to link your post back to this giveaway page and that you are using the permalink for your … [Continue reading...]

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