Thinking Deep Thoughts Today

Posted:
Apr
03
2013

My heart is very heavy today. I have many other things that I want to write about (camping, spring cleaning, and our little urban garden to name a few), but the truth is, there are some things that I simply have to share.

What In The World Is Going On?

I am going to let you read and draw your own conclusions, but I am left scratching my head at the state of the world today…

Dancing Around The Blog World

I have been dancing around the blog world. Skimming and reading without leaving comments. I have visited old friends, discovered new inspiration and yes, I am going to come back and leave comments.

After coming back from winter camping and doing some deep thinking, I am working some things out in my heart (with my Lord) and some things out in my head (which is surprisingly clearer due to much rest time in the tent – aka – I am freezing and crawling under the mound of blankets to keep warm).

As I have flittered around from site to site, I saw posts about infertility, baby grief, deep faith, calls to change and make a difference, links to ministries I had never heard of, and people sharing their faith and their hearts. Vulnerable. Authentic. Inspiring.

Blogrolls Of Friends, Clients, And Deeply Inspiring Reads

I gathered links and made a blog roll of sorts (or 2 or 3) for my sidebar. Some of those links are to friends I want to make or find again, some are to clients, and some are brand new to me, but deeply inspiring none the less.

It’s Time To Do Something

I also made a list of missions and ministries to explore further because it’s high time we started doing something. Something more. Time is short as is very evident by the state of the world around us. I made the list, so I don’f forget, so I have somewhere to come back to, but also so I can pray. I can pray for each of those missions and ministries that is making a difference. I am not 100% sure at this time if all the ones listed there are Christian (I am working through investigating them for myself), but they all appear to be doing something and doing something is better than doing nothing..

We Have Too Much Stuff

My kids are always complaining that they have “no clothes” (have you heard that one before?), but when we packed for camping, each child had a least a week’s worth of perfectly decent and seasonally appropriate clothing. In my books this is MORE THAN ENOUGH. There are 7 people in this house and I don’t want to manage more than 49 pairs of pants (skirts or jumpers for Hosanna), shirts, underwear, socks, pyjamas or anything.

Deep thinking on my winter camping trip (more about the camping in another post or 2) led me to realize that we (as a family) have way more “STUFF” than we need or than I want to care for anymore. I have a project that I am working on (related to our home and our “STUFF”) and I will share when it is finished (give me a couple months), but for me it is already life changing.

Digging A Hole To China

I came away from our trip refreshed, but I am having a hard time focusing on work because the drain company started reno work on the drain in the basement and the roofers are coming soon.

They jackhammered the cement today, but they still have to dig a hole in the basement floor down to where the pipes are (anywhere from 1 foot to almost 6 feet), replace all the pipes, have it pass inspection, refill the hole, and finally cement it all back up. That should take place later this week or early next week.

The lack of a definitive schedule is making our life uncertain and causing our “special” kids to have a little extra anxiety.

About that other company that is here doing roof work, because they don’t have to enter our home or backyard they don’t have to give us notice. This means we have no idea when that will happen (to prepare a day away from the house for our noise sensitive ones). I have asked hubby to find out their timeline and respectfully ask them to give us some notice.

Pieces Of A Puzzle Coming Together

God is doing a deep work in my heart and I can’t explain it yet because it doesn’t all make sense, but I can see the pieces of the puzzle coming together. He has been lining up my life  and our life as a family, giving us skills and talents, and positioning us for such a time as this. I am really excited to watch what He is doing in our lives and I can’t wait to share with you.

My Word For This Year

DREAM.

Dream God sized dreams. (I will leave that for another post).

Honey

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Let Your Light Shine

Posted:
Feb
12
2013

Bible

During our Bible time today we read and discussed Matthew 5:16.
Download a pdf of the memory verse poster here – – > (coming soon)

We had an energetic discussion of the various ways that we can let our lights shine. This included reading about some Christians who are currently being persecuted and some other Christians who are ministering to those in need.

We introduced the kids to Mercy House Kenya, which has been on my heart a great deal the last few weeks. Jonah and I had a long discussion after school about how we can support this ministry, but have not made any official decisions yet (besides praying!). Have you heard about this ministry? Take a few moments and read…

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We left the kids with the thought, “Think about ways that you can let your light shine.” We are looking forward to our discussion tomorrow.

Math

Welcome To Math-U-See. Last week I dove in head first and purchased Math-U-See for the older boys (and at this point, plan to use it for the twins next year also). I did not make this decision lightly though, but that is another post in itself.

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Math-U-See does not do “grade” levels, so I started the boys where they fit the best (based on content and the placement tests).

I started Malachi in Gamma, which appears to be grade level for him, with goals to complete Gamma before the end of August.

I started both Moses and Elisha in Delta because that is where they fit best.

For Moses, I have set the goal for him to complete both Delta and Epsilon before the end of August.

For Elisha I have set the goal for him to complete Delta, Epsilon, and Zeta before the end of August.

English

We dove head first into adverbs today. We started with a fun review by playing Adverb Charades (we printed and made the cards from that link and adapted the game to suit our needs).

I have a funny video to add here :)

Then we went over some adverb learning charts that I printed for each of the kids from online (just Google adverb poster, adverb learning chart, etc. and do an image search and you will come up with tons of ideas).

Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here

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Adverbs and Adjectives

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More resources for adverbs here: Grammatical Parts Of Speech and List Of Adverbs.

Social Studies

We have a subscription to Discovery Education Canada and we don’t use it near enough, so I searched for history videos to compliment the topic we are currently studying: Middle Ages.

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We watched the following short segments today, pausing often for discussion.

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Honey

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Home Business And Home School – Making It Work

Posted:
Jan
24
2013

How do you run a home business and home school? Finding a balance between work and school is the goal for any homeschool family, but especially for homeschool families that also run home businesses. It is wonderful to be able to have a flexible schedule, but also important to be able to set realistic boundaries (ones that honestly, not everyone will respect or even understand). Do you run a home business and home school? How do you make it work?

Home Business and Home School – Making It Work

Our family has been building Honeycomb Design Studio for the last few years and we have developed a significant client base (over a 100 clients that we love) but we have also had to adapt as we have grown. We are only two people (Jonah and Honey) and we can only do so much in one twenty-four hour period (and I have finally hired two Virtual Assistants).

While it is very important to be adaptable and flexible, it is also important to know where to place firm boundaries. We are working hard to establish some boundaries with our clients and prepare for another level of growth in our business. Most, if not all, of our clients have been extremely respectful of these boundaries simply because they are homeschool mamas themselves trying to set their own boundaries.

Sometimes there are circumstances that require a moving or bending of the rigidness of those boundaries due to time constraints or other unknown variables and we need to be able to adapt to. For our family, that has often meant starting school later, rearranging our school days, doing school on the weekend, or creating a lighter work day.

We don’t like this adaptation to be the norm for us and we are working even harder to keep Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday completely free from direct one-to-one client work. We often don’t even turn on email or Skype until school is completely finished.

So, why am I writing all of this? Well, today was one of those adaptation days. We had to schedule an urgent client meeting before school even started. We could have chosen to cancel school for the day (since my sister and her kids are coming to play this afternoon), but instead, we chose to continue on and just get as much done as possible.

It is a relief to know that the schedule is set. We just need to go through the Family Workboxes (aka our buckets) and do a little bit in each subject and we will get through the day and when the timer goes off signalling the end of our day, it is what it is.

Bible

During our Bible time today we read and discussed John 3:16.
Download a pdf of the memory verse poster here – - > John 3:16

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Math

We went to Khan Academy again today to watch our math video.

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We watched Subtraction 2 in the Khan Academy Arithmetic Playlist in case you are following along.

I printed some more subtraction worksheets from The Math Worksheet Site as a review.

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English

We reviewed the information on syllables from Natural Speller by Kathryn Stout

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and then we played Angry Syllables with our foam dice.

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Angry Syllables

The rules are simple:

  1. Roll the dice.
  2. Roll a pig – say a word with 3 syllables or more.
  3. Roll a bird – say a word with 2 syllables or less.

This was the longest word that Elisha came up with today:

Antidisestablishmentarianism.

Science

We reviewed yesterday’s reading from our new science book : Machines & Motion.

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and then we ventured on to YouTube to have a look at some videos related to topics that came up during our discussion:

The Major Laws Of Physics

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Mechanical Energy

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Potential Energy

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Energy & Energy Transformations

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Energy Is Conserved

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And people (who are these “people”) said that cartoons are not educational…

A Few Questions For You

  1. Do you have a home business or work from home?
  2. Do you have to adapt your homeschool or work around circumstances like therapies?
  3. What is one thing that would make your life run more smoothly? (besides more time)

Honey

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Organizing Our Homeschool Again

Posted:
Jan
23
2013

Yes, you read that right, we are organizing our homeschool again. We have tried so many different ways of organizing our homeschool, almost as many ways as we have tried to arrange our living room (yeah, that’s a high number). The system we have hit on now is actually working. And get this, it is very easy to use.

I mentioned the other day that we are doing a variation of workboxes – Family Workboxes. Right now we have 6 large buckets and they are labelled as follows: Bible, Math, English, Science, Social Studies, and French. We alternate weeks for Science and Social Studies, and the French bucket also contains PE materials. We hope to start adding in both of those subjects as soon as we are comfortable with our new routine.

In each bucket is everything that we need to tackle that subject for the duration of this term. The buckets include items like: textbooks, workbooks, worksheets, notes (about where to find things online or which books to print from on my hard-drive), games, DVD’s, CD’s, folders full of work to be done and work already done, and any tools needed to do the job.

It has been amazing to open the bucket and just get to work without having to look for everything before we can get started. This has simplified my life. Seriously, you really have no idea how this has simplified my life. The kids are not allowed to touch the buckets – except for school – and before, things had a habit of disappearing. Now everything is where I leave it and as I expect it to be when we start school. This is such a blessing.

I can see future benefits too. I can print things and slip them into the buckets to weave into current or future lessons. I can gather games or experiment bits and pieces to put in the buckets to help us learn in a more hands on way.

I would love to hear how you organize your homeschool. Please leave a note in the comments.

Bible

During our Bible time today we read and discussed Proverbs 20:11.
Download a pdf of the memory verse poster here – - > Proverbs 20:11

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Math

We went to Khan Academy again today to watch our math video.

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We watched Basic Subtraction in the Khan Academy Arithmetic Playlist in case you are following along.

We used subtraction worksheets from The Math Worksheet Site as a review.

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English

We are still working through these books:

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Left Book - No Boring Practice, Please! Spelling
Right Book - Comic-Strip Grammar

In No Boring Practice, Please! Spelling we are “still” working on syllables. Just like yesterday we will be doing word building games instead of doing written crosswords. I wrote the syllables of the words on cards and gave them clues so they could build the words. (I did take pictures, but they turned out all blurry so I am not including them here).

We read the information page on syllables from Natural Speller by Kathryn Stout.

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We deviated from our Comic-Strip Grammar for the day and I created a simple worksheet on pronouns based on one found in Grammar a Step-by-Step Approach. I had to print it on pink paper and the boys were not too impressed with that.

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Science

Today we did our first reading from our new science book : Machines & Motion.

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After conducting some experiments with a bouncy ball, we ventured on to YouTube to have a look at some videos related to things that came up during our discussion:

Throwing A Baseball

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Gravity Hill

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A Few Questions For You

  1. What are you currently studying in science?
  2. How do you measure progress and understanding?
  3. What is one thing you would change about your homeschool this year?

Honey

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Family Workboxes

Posted:
Jan
22
2013

I have been a fan of workboxes, since the very beginning, and we have tried them in a variety of different ways in our homeschool. This year we are trying something new: Family Workboxes.

When Jonah and I were discussing how we were going to do school for the rest of this term, we hit upon the idea of everyone doing the same subject at the same time. We created a big plastic bucket for each subject and filled it with everything needed to complete that subject. Some things we do together and some things we just do at the same time.

So our basic day goes like this: Bible, Math, English (Spelling, Grammar, Writing, etc), Social Studies/Science (alternating weekly). We still need to add in a few more subjects, but for now this is a really great start and has been going very well for us. The kids know what to expect and it is easy to know when we are done with the subject for the day (and done for the day).

Bible

During our Bible time today we read and discussed Philippians 2:14.
Download a pdf of the memory verse poster here – - > Philippians 2:14 (25)

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Math

We went to Khan Academy again today to watch our math video.

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We watched Addition 4 in the Khan Academy Arithmetic Playlist in case you are following along.

English

English is the subject that gets the most complaints around our house, so I am doing my best to make it as interesting as possible. Right now that means covering the topic in the book, but not always in the way the author set out for us to do it.

We are still working through these books:

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Left Book - No Boring Practice, Please! Spelling
Right Book - Comic-Strip Grammar

In No Boring Practice, Please! Spelling we are still working on Syllables. Today instead of doing a written crossword, I wrote the syllables of the words on cards and gave them clues verbally and had them build the words as a group on the floor. They seemed to have fun with this approach. I didn’t get any photos today, but we are doing the next crossword (tomorrow) in the same way, so hopefully I will remember to pull out the camera.

Since our topic today in (Comic-Strip Grammar) was pronouns, we watched the Schoolhouse Rock video about pronouns on YouTube as a little refresher. This video is so cool.

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We read the comic strip from our book and wrote out pronouns on a piece of paper. The boys were not thrilled that I only had pink paper to offer them.

Science

We did social studies last week, so this is our science week. We are starting a new science book Machines & Motion that will most likely take us to the end of the year to complete.

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Since we are starting new materials and a new topic, I decided to approach the new topic with some experiment videos from InquisiKids (Sonlight). The kids love these videos.

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After we watched the experiments, we ventured on to YouTube to have a look at some real life examples:

Hovercraft

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Helicopter

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Water Wheel

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A Few Questions For You

  1. Do you alternate your Science and Social Studies subjects?
  2. Do your kids enjoy science experiments?
  3. Where do you get the ideas for your science experiments?

Honey

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Creative Learning Experiences

Posted:
Jan
17
2013

Worksheets are often boring, I do know this, so my goal is always to use them as a guide for the discussion and learning process and not to require page after page of writing.

Elisha (our oldest) has autism and has always struggled with putting pen to paper due to a combination of muscle fatigue (diagnosed by an orthopaedic specialist) and sensory issues (diagnosed by two different occupational therapists). For these and other reasons, we are always looking for creative learning experiences that don’t require putting pen to paper.

Creative learning experiences can often be found by thinking outside the box or by producing activities in the moment based on interest and opportunity. Some of my best creative learning ideas come from truly seizing those teachable moments and having a variety of resources available in our home learning environment can only improve my chances of succeeding.

Bible

During our Bible time today we read and discussed Colossians 3:20.
Download a pdf of the memory verse poster here – - > Colossians 3:20

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FYI – These memory verse posters are created by my husband and I to go with animations we are currently working on. There will be 26 verses in this series.

Math

We went to Khan Academy again today to watch our math video.

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We watched the third video in the Khan Academy Arithmetic Playlist in case you are following along.

Then we printed some more worksheets from The Math Worksheet Site.

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We pulled out our gripping pegs for the twins to play with and they were very engaged with practicing their fine motor skills. (And yes, that is a ham sandwich sitting beside Hosanna. It was  a working lunch).

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English

Today we played a rousing game of Angry Verbs. No, I didn’t come up with that fun title, Angry Verbs, but I did come up with this fun little game for the kids to play today.

I took these angry birds coloring pages, printed them out, and slipped them into my wonderful foam dice and taped the sides shut in case any of them had second thoughts and decided to  try and escape.

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The rules are simple:

  1. If you roll a bird you have to say a verb.
  2. If you roll a pig you have to say a noun.

Another awesome resource is this Noun/Verb Sort (free) from Mama’s Learning Corner for you to check out.

Social Studies (History & Geography)

Today we dove in head first and landed in the Byzantine Empire. We opened The Usborne Book Of World History

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and read pages 92-93.

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Then we opened up The Usborne Encyclopedia World History

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and read pages 202-203.

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Then we opened up The King Fisher History Encyclopedia

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and read from pages 100-101.

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A few years ago I purchased Uncle Josh’s Outline Map Collection and it has been a wonderful resource for whenever we need a map.

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Today we printed out a map of Europe & The Middle East and Elisha was able to highlight the Byzantine Empire area in pencil, from memory. He particularly enjoyed our history lesson today.

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I pulled out my History Through The Ages CD today and printed off the page with Justinian and Theodora for the kids to put in their timeline books.

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This is the Book Of Time purchased from Sonlight a few years ago, but we hardly used it. It will be perfect for our Medieval Studies.

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Elisha glued in Justinian and Theodora and then helped each of the other boys to find the correct place on their own timelines and glue in their pieces. He was a big help today and he actually told me he enjoyed school. (Big smile on my heart for reaching him).

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A Few Final Words

Well, that’s it for our formal lessons this week. A few of the kids have bits and pieces to finish before we dive into our lessons again next Tuesday, but we are just calling that homework.

Honey

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Making School Fun

Posted:
Jan
16
2013

I will be the first to admit that school is not always fun. Sometimes the things we are learning are hard for me to teach and sometimes things are hard for the kids to learn. Since I really want my kids to enjoy learning, I work hard at making school fun or at least as enjoyable as possible (sometimes that is SO hard, trust me).

When you are home learning or in any learning environment, one of the biggest obstacles to overcome or compensate for is the variety of learning styles. Everyone has their own “way” that they learn best and trust me, sometimes those STYLES clash LOUDLY. Well, at least in our house they do. And then, you get to learn tolerance and patience and long-suffering.

Okay, this post was not meant to be depressing, but rather encouraging. How can you make school fun, when you are dealing with subject matter that kids don’t want to learn (or think they already know) and learning styles that clash? That is what my pretty little brain is storming all about these days. Hopefully, I will come up with some answers for our house – that I can, in turn, share with you.

Bible

During our Bible time today we read and discussed Matthew 5:9.
Download a pdf of the memory verse poster here – - > Matthew 5:9

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Math

We went to Khan Academy again today to watch our math video.

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We watched the second video in the Khan Academy Arithmetic Playlist in case you are following along.

Then we printed some more worksheets from The Math Worksheet Site.

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We pulled out our Unifix Cubes for the twins today and printed some fun worksheets from A Child’s Place. It turns out the big boys still enjoy using them for math too, but you did not hear that from me.

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English

We are still working through these books:

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Left BookNo Boring Practice, Please! Spelling
Right BookComic-Strip Grammar

In No Boring Practice, Please! Spelling we are working on Syllables right now and will be for at least one more week. Dipthongs and digraphs here we come.

Since our topic today in (Comic-Strip Grammar) was verbs, we watched the Schoolhouse Rock video about verbs on YouTube as a little refresher.

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Social Studies

Today we did a super quick overview of the Early Middle Ages and Middle Ages. Now, while I say super quick, I don’t mean I read fast (okay, I really did), but what I meant is that we went very quickly through the pages in The King Fisher History Encyclopedia. Pages 97-190 to be exact. We read the little sentence/paragraph in the top left hand corner of each 2 page spread that told briefly about that time period.

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That reading today was a whirlwind trip in itself and I have to be honest with you, this time period sounds absolutely fascinating. I am really looking forward to studying all about the middle ages with the kids. I hope you will join us for the ride.

A Few Questions For You

  1. Do your kids have clashing learning styles?
  2. How do you help your kids learn to work together?
  3. How do you adapt your homeschool materials to a variety of levels and learning styles?
  4. What one piece of advice can you offer to other homeschooling mamas?

Honey

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A New Year Of Home Learning

Posted:
Jan
15
2013

It is hard to get into a routine after you have taken a break from formal home learning. We are slowly getting back into the swing of things now after our busy Christmas break.

Welcome to an exciting new year of home learning!

Bible

For Bible today we discussed Proverbs 15:1.
Download a pdf of the memory verse poster here – - > Proverbs 15:1

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Math

Math is currently being taught via videos on Khan Academy and worksheets from a paid subscription @ The Math Worksheet Site.

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When I first sat down this morning to que up the video for today, the Khan Academy site was down. Instead of panicking and getting my knickers all in a knot, I remembered that most, if not all, of the videos are hosted on YouTube. So, I journeyed over there to see if I could find the video that I wanted to play today.

Did you know that Khan Academy on YouTube has 3,336 videos and they are not all math?

We are starting a review of basic facts and seeing if there are any gaps we need to fill, so naturally we started with the Khan Academy Arithmetic Playlist. Did I mention this is free?

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Next up, I went over to the The Math Worksheet Site and printed off worksheets for all five kids. We are using the paid subscription from The Math Worksheet Site.

One great thing about this site is that when I am printing worksheets for the kids, I can generate a new worksheet for each child so they can all work on the same topic with different questions.

Another great thing about this site is that they have worksheets from pre-k all the way to high school, so there is something there for each of my children.

There are tons of free worksheets (generated on the fly) available there too, so make sure you check it out. I opted for the subscription because it was super cheap and I knew it would serve our family well.

English

Last year I was blessed to come across an online sale for Scholastic eBooks and I had some money just burning a hole in my Paypal (not really), so I bought a lovely collection of eBooks.

These wonderful eBooks have been sitting in a folder on my desktop FOREVER and I finally had a chance to have a closer look through them (last weekend) and choose some that were appropriate for us to work through this year.

Today we started working through these books:

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Left BookNo Boring Practice, Please! Spelling
Right BookComic-Strip Grammar

Since our topic today in (Comic-Strip Grammar) was nouns, we watched the Schoolhouse Rock video about Nouns on YouTube as a little refresher.

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Social Studies

We are just beginning our study of Medieval Times, so today was full of discussion about knights (which all the boys loved) among other things. I will share more of our resources tomorrow.

Transitions, Thoughts, and Other Stuff

Transitions

For some energetic transitions between lessons, we used this book:

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This book is perfect if you have small spaces (aka 5 kids stuck inside for the winter) and little people who need to burn off some steam.

Thoughts

One of the best things about home learning is being able to draw from a HUGE (limitless) variety of resources. What is your favorite thing about home learning?

Other Stuff

Okay, we can call this the “questions I want to ask you” section,  but the sub-title would not have looked nearly so cool.

  1. Are you starting back the school year doing the same old, same old?
  2. What is one thing you are ENJOYING learning right along with your kids?
  3. What is something you are struggling with in your home learning right now?

 

Honey

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Telling The Story Of Christmas With Christmas Carols

Posted:
Dec
01
2012

O Come, O Come Emmanuel

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Silent Night

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O Come All Ye Faithful

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O Holy Night

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Away In A Manger

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O Little Town Of Bethlehem

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Long Time Ago In Bethlehem

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Mary Did You Know

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It Came Upon A Midnight Clear

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While Shepherds Watched Their Flock

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Hark The Herald Angels Sing

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The Little Drummer Boy

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The First Noel

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Do You Hear What I Hear?

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Sweet Little Jesus Boy

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We Three Kings

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I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day

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Joy To The World

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Joyful Joyful

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Angels From The Realms Of Glory

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Honey

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Preparing For Emergencies

Posted:
Nov
01
2012

Preparing For Emergencies

Preparing For Emergencies

What resources do you use when you are preparing for emergencies?

There have been many events occurring around the globe in the past few days and I have been following many of them with great interest. Some of these events affect us directly and others indirectly, but I prefer to be informed so I can make the best decisions for my own family.

Using Technology To Prepare For Emergencies

I have found myself using technology to keep informed about the things happening around the globe and having access to technology (internet, computers, tablets, cell phones, etc) has helped to give me information that I need to prepare for and survive an emergency or natural disaster.

Here are some of the resources that I have been using to follow the emergencies (earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes) of the past week.

Websites

If you have access to the internet, then you have access to all these free resources that can give you important information in the event of an emergency.

Apps (Google Play Store)

These links go directly to the Google Play Store (and they are all free at the time of this writing).

What About You?

  1. What resources do you turn to in the event of an impending emergency?
  2. Do you have a resource list for the iPad?

Honey

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