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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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neat link!

Posted in Fun Schooling, Getting ready for School! on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Passed on to me by a dear friend… Lots of wonderful homeschooling links!

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Something fun for the little ones…and something for a pre-school decor?

Posted in Fun Schooling on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If you have a border around a the base of a chalkboard or  an area that is accessable to the little ones under a long window  or the edge of a loooong bookcase try this for your pre-schooler…   (you can even go down the hall or staircase with this!)
We have a puzzle  similar to this one [...]

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Grammar Study

Posted in Family Centered Homeschooling, Fun Schooling, Just for Fun!, Making Studies come alive! on March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Often heard at the learning table:
Remember kids…pause at the commas and stop at the periods…
or you can watch these men TRY to do it…

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Fun in a Box

Posted in Fun Schooling, Games, Montessori, tagged , , on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I was playing letter games with my Sunshine Boy (4yo ds) this afternoon. I noticed that he was struggling to write his letters today in a booklet we created. He has the general idea, but his motor skills just aren’t there yet and I observed that he hesitates to recall how the letter [...]

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Fun in a Bottle!

Posted in Fun Schooling, Games, Getting ready for School!, Science on June 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »

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Fun in a Bottle!

Posted in Fun Schooling, Games, Getting ready for School!, Science on June 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »

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Hands-On learning

Posted in Fun Schooling, Hands-On Geography, Index Card Learning, Making Studies come alive!, Montessori on January 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »

One of my favorite blogs to visit is Kim’s at Starry Sky Ranch.  It is almost scary how I seem to find there things I am already working on or things that have been in the back of my mind to find more about.  I say scary because I never met anyone like me in [...]

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Poetic Fridays

Posted in Fun Schooling, Making Studies come alive! on November 11, 2006 | 2 Comments »

My children love to memorize poetry.  For years to come I know that our favorites will include poetry from Robert Lewis Stevenson because we started with him.  He got us hooked on the beautiful rythmic beauty that poetry possesses and the sweet artful images that are contained in each line.  The first time I picked up [...]

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Who Spilled All the Pennies?!!

Posted in Fun Schooling, Just for Fun!, Making Studies come alive! on August 17, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Young Edison(10) is very interested in bridge building and architecture  lately.  A dear friend on Magnum Opus sent me this link and ever since I clicked on it to ck it out, Edison has had his nose plastered to the screen observing the unique details  and pondering the possiblities in his brain….meanwhile….my other ds(7), my [...]

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