Education
Organizing Back to School Schedules
I can’t remember a summer day UNDER 100 degrees! Or a summer day with a good soaking rain, until about two days ago. Whether it was the grace of God, or the weather sensing we needed a little help with our back to school schedules, I woke to a cool 77 degrees after a thunderstorm…
Back to School Blahs!
School starts in seven days! Seven days! Which means not only will my kids be going to school in 100 plus degree heat, so will I! Is it just me or is it just plain wrong to send kids to school in August? Technically, it’s still SUMMER. Time for swimming and BBQs and staying up…
Download N Go Homeschool Unit Studies
I’ve never really purchased any unit study kits. Usually I hodge podge them together with items around the house. And I’ve never really lapbooked in the traditional sense. Usually we journal and color and cut and paste into a spiral notebook, but when I was given the opportunity to review Download N Go unit lapbook…
My Little Reader
Grace has finally learned to love to read THIS WEEK. She’s seven years old and though her reading is still not great, that doesn’t stop her from grabbing a book from her bookshelf and reading it for herself. It doesn’t matter if she doesn’t understand all the words or read them all correctly, she loves…
EE Double E and Learning to Spell
I’ve already posted on how we’re making up stories that go along with Alphabet Island to help us remember spelling words with EE and EA. Well, here’s my seven and nine year old’s story about the TOWN:Â My comments are in (parentheses) Grace’s (7) EE Story: The Town There once was a QUEEN. People would…
I LOVE Alphabet Island!
Why couldn’t I have discovered it early? No boring rules to memorize like K comes before and E, I, Y! Instead, rules are learned through FUN stories and songs! My kids are really taking to it and after struggling to learn these phonics and spelling rules, it’s really sinking in! My kids have no problem…
Teaching Your Kids to Soar
Post from the Past This book totally changed the way I viewed each of my children. In fact, I think it’s time I read through it again. When my oldest was two, he drove me crazy with his bossiness and his involvement in everyone’s business. He was demanding, confrontational with other children, and often had…
I Love My New Lunch Box!
When I decided to teach at my kids’ school, I knew IÂ wasn’t going to order the fast food lunches every time. I needed to get into the habit of packing my lunch. I barely have the time to pack my kids lunches but every since I got the CitizenPip lunch system (thanks to Qlubb.com)…
Qlubb.com: Where Soccer Moms (and others) Get Organized!
What a small world! Last month when my daughter Grace got chosen for the Raggs television show (post coming soon, I promise!) I started searching Twitter for other Raggs winners. I found Sophie. The mother of an adorable little girl who was one of the first Raggs winners to tape for the show. Needless to…
Homeschool Math Fact Help I LOVE!
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