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Preschool Corner ~ Vacation Time!!

Jul162010

This week we were minus two kids since both girls went to camp for the week…leaving us with only two boys to keep occupied. We went swimming. A lot. We played. A lot. Rode bikes. Took walks. Built with legos {because Grandma has oh.so.many legos…and just relaxed. Here’s just a quick picture look at our week. We brought along Kaleb’s Strider bike. He is doing amazing balancing and we’re … [Continue reading...]

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Homeschool Village ~ Self-Evaluation

Jul152010

This week's topic at The Homeschool Village has to do with self evaluation and here’s the question ~ “If you were to "grade" yourself on homeschooling this past year ... what "grade" would you have earned? What if your children were grading you? Honestly? There are more times than not that this would be an ‘ouch’ moment for me. Yes, we accomplish the bulk of what I plan for us … [Continue reading...]

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Homeschool Curriculum Choices 2010-2011

Jul112010

This year our oldest three {Zachary ~1st, McKenna ~ 3rd, & Laurianna ~ 4th grade} will be working together and focusing on Early American History. This list focuses on the curriculum that we will be using for our older three {preschool excluded…since I’m still tweaking that!}. Otherwise, this is what we have in place for each subject this coming year along with the how often we’ll be working … [Continue reading...]

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Preschool Corner ~ Preschool Workbox Cards

Jul92010

I’m supposed to be packing. Obviously I’m not. We leave tomorrow to visit with family for the next week and there are bucketloads of things that I should be doing, and truckloads of things that I would rather be doing. This last week has been full of fun for Kaleb ~ lots of swimming to ward off the over 100 degrees that have been sweltering our area. AND we went on a family date to see Toy … [Continue reading...]

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The Weekly Grid Workbox System

Jul82010

Last year we first started using workboxes and for the most part, we followed along the way it was supposed to go ~ except we used workfolders rather than workboxes. This year, after talking to the girls a bit, we revamped our system to make it work better for us. Ginger-Snap-Shots did this very thing last year with her girls with a little bit of a different twist. This year, instead of using … [Continue reading...]

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Homeschool Village ~ Favorite Children’s Recipes

Jul72010

This week’s topic at The Homeschool Village is sharing our children’s favorite recipes. I’m generally a little hesitant to have the kids help with cooking because our kitchen space is relatively small and with 5 of us in the kitchen…it starts getting crazy ~ fast! Our kids DO like to help out whenever possible and I’ve been trying to let the girls help out more often, but really it all comes down … [Continue reading...]

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