If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed This boy is my animal wrangler. He’s an extreme dog lover, but he takes an interest in the chickens as well. OK, he takes a massive interest in all animals. You’d be shocked to find out how little interaction I have with the chickens. And the [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Homeschooling category.
Shakespeare, seriously.
So, I’m very easily influenced. I know this and try to protect my naive self, but sometimes influences sneak in thru unlikely sources, say facebook. Say a video on facebook that I thought was only there to make me laugh, but it also made me think. (Yes, it did hurt, thank.you.very.much.) Anyway, we got a [...]
Meddlesome Matty
One ugly trick has often spoil’d The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possess’d, Which, like a cloud before the skies, Hid all her better qualities. Sometimes she’d lift the tea-pot lid, To peep at what was in it, Or tilt the kettle, if you did But turn your [...]
Wonder if I remember how to work this thing…
Once upon a time I was a blogger. I thought I had time on my hands and I filled it with blogging. Turns out I was robbing my kids of the time I should have been spending doing things with them. OUCH! Ok, ripped that bandaid off all at once. Time, lots of time has [...]
Online Unit Studies, aka Free Homeschooling!
First, I looked around online and there are approximately 473 millionbilliontrillion literature based unit studies/lapbook/notebook plans already out there, and some of it is even free for the printing! Overwhelming? Just a tad. I had to sleep on it. I came up with a S.T.E.L.L.A.R. plan. Shop right here on my book shelves, choose several [...]
It’s like a joke, only it really happened, sorta.
Psst ~ There’s a link for free clip art at the end of this post, so read the whole thing, ok? Ok. I play several instruments, guitar, piano, ukulele and so on. I come from a family of artists on one side and musicians on the other. Long history of creativity. My dad taught me [...]
Aesop’s Fables Copywork
Aesop’s Fables are (some of them) longer than Mother Goose Rhymes (ahem, some of them). When you are using longer passages for copywork, assign only PART of the passage each day. Here are the Fables. Just copy and paste them into the form of your choosing on the WorksheetWorks site. Then print out some of [...]
Mother Goose Copywork
Last week I found a wonderful site for making your own copywork pages. It’s called WorksheetWorks and the page I am thrilled to the bone about is the Handwriting Practice page. I was looking for a way to make math copywork pages where I could put each fact and then have a nice line, including the [...]
Custom Cross Stitch Pattern Maker
I just found three sites that are gonna come in so handy when my kids get married and start having children. Babies are the only reason to cross stitch. Really. Here are all the nursery rhymes. Here is the cross stitch pattern maker for the text. Here is the cross stitch pattern maker for the [...]
Challenging Copywork
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!” He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long [...]
