I like to open up my homeschool closet to share materials I find helpful in our homeschool journey, it’s been a while since I’ve shared… Of interest to me lately are these nifty Math workbooks by Flashkids. After a slightly confusing lesson on decimals -for test prep purposes, I went to our local Barnes & [...]
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I love birds, I am always looking for them. This week, I looked out my window and noticed a great deal of activity over at the basil bush in the garden. I looked longer and spied the bright yellow flash of the American Goldfinch. We’ve have mostly boring birds here in the heart of Orange [...]
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We started our new Science program this week. I decided to go with R.E.A.L Science Odyssey from Pandia Press. We will be doing their Chemistry level 1 program. It consists of a textbook and student workpages that I can copy for each child. They will put these pages into a notebook. I will forever, *be* [...]
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I’m in a quandry, I do not know what to do about Science. I had a Science program picked out, it was a course completely done on the computer. Well, we started an English program by the same company, and… it was dry, and I felt like I was dragging the kids through each lesson. [...]
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Not set in stone…is it ever, really? But, here are our plans for the 2011-2012 homeschool year; known in my head and in certain circles as The Cliffs of Insanity Day Academy and St. Jenn’s School for Exceptional Teens… Amie age 9, Demi-Sky age 11, Teddy (bonus student) age 11 {together} Bible: Possessing the Land [...]
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Today was our 1st day of Summer homeschool. Teddy was out for a week vacationing with his grandparents, so we took the week off, also. Now that he is back, I started in on my Summer plans for learning. First up: Mad Dog Math. This is a program for learning your Math facts. We are [...]
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So much of what I do is pieced together. I would love to be able to say that we’ve used such-n-such curriculum for so many years. I’d love the safe feeling of having one curriculum to fulfill all our needs; one program to follow year after year-insuring no learning gaps. I’d love to be that [...]
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