Some of my favorite workbooks can be so expensive to purchase 8 times (or more!) so I have found that an inexpensive option is making them re-usable by laminating them.
I am placing each dismantled sheet in a letter-sized laminating pouch and feeding it to my inexpensive duck laminator (that I purchased from [...]
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Reusable workbooks
Posted in Designing the School Spaces, Elegant Simplicity, Family Centered Homeschooling, Getting ready for School!, tagged laminating, workbooks on July 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »
A visual learner’s narration idea…
Posted in Designing the School Spaces, Elegant Simplicity, Family Centered Homeschooling, Fun Schooling, Getting ready for School!, Living History, Making Studies come alive!, Notebooking Your Studies on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I and several of my dc are very visual learners. I hit up the thrift store recently and found a collection of small photo books (the kind that looks like a bunch of page protectors in a stiff cover) (Move over Pottery Barn Kids…learning spaces I covet on a regular basis [:$] )
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Homeschooled Wiseguy Gets Brighter…
Posted in Family Centered Homeschooling, Kids say the darndest things! on June 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My dear Young Edison(13) is inordinately attached to the computer screen…it’s more of a moth-light relationship. It FEELS like I am always struggling to get him to start on his homework when all he really wants to do is find ANYTHING even remotely related to education on the net. A few days ago, I witnessed [...]
Homeschooled Wiseguy
Posted in Family Centered Homeschooling, Kids say the darndest things! on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My 15yo dd was getting the table ready for dinner and she asked her brother Young Edison 13 to “Please, turn on the Sun” which in our house means to turn on the big light.
Young Edison quips,”Who do you think I am? Apollo??!”
…at least I know he finished his Ancient History homework…<G>
Why I haven’t been posting…..
Posted in Family Centered Homeschooling on March 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Just when I thought we were invincible…
Posted in Family Centered Homeschooling, Kids say the darndest things! on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We made it through the winter without the flu!!!
Until Saturday.
..my 8yo dd got it…then the 4yo dd..then the 10yo ds…who is currently moaning behind me in the chair snuggled in a blanket.
This child is our “class clown”. His usual chatter is laced with jokes all day long. Unfortunately, he isn’t one to ever suffer gracefully. [...]
New copy work…
Posted in Family Centered Homeschooling, Kids say the darndest things! on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday my eldest dd and I copied and pasted a quote into an email then got up from the computer and went into the kitchen to make dinner. We overheard some excitement coming from the computer…Sunshine boy (5) was exclaiming in a loud voice, “I finished my copy work! See? I signed it…”
sure enough [...]
New Beginnings…
Posted in Family Centered Homeschooling, Living the Family-Centered Life, Tending to Virtue, Uncategorized on September 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
And so we begin another school year. It is chaotic…there is a mess in neat little piles everywhere…books, papers, school supplies…
even though we try to keep up with the dishes, the meal times seem to come on us faster and faster and we just can’t keep up! the kitchen could use a fire hose [...]
family life meets parish life
Posted in Family Centered Homeschooling, Living the Family-Centered Life, Real Living, Tending to Virtue on July 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I have been thinking a lot about who we are as a family. I really do think that each family has a unique charism. It seems to be a theme that has been coming up so much that I am starting to take notice…like the Holy Spirit is tapping me on the head…
I [...]
St. John Bosco on education
Posted in Family Centered Homeschooling, Tending to Virtue on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Remember that education is a difficult art, and that God alone is its true Master. We will never succeed in it, unless He teaches us the way. While depending humbly and entirely on Him, we should try with might and main, to acquire that moral strength that is a stranger to force and rigor. Let [...]
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