If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feedOne 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 [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Copywork category.
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 [...]
Favorites for Copywork/Memory-work and a list
Singing TimeI wake in the morning earlyAnd always, the very first thingI poke out my headAnd I sit up in bedAnd I sing, and I sing, and I sing! by Rose Fyleman The Cow The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might, [...]
The Boy We Want
A boy that is truthful and honest And faithful and willing to work; But we have not a place that we care to disgrace With a boy that is ready to shirk. Wanted – a boy you can tie to, A boy that is trusty and true, A boy that is good to old [...]
Printer Friendly Copywork
This is a long post (for me), but read the whole thing, it’s fascinating! I just did this myself and was so smitten with the results that I wanted to make sure that y’all know how to do it. “What did you do Mother Hen?” Y’all’re so sweet to ask! (betcha never saw the double [...]
BOY WANTED
This “want ad” appeared in the early part of [the 20th] century. WANTED – A boy that stands straight, sits straight, acts straight, and talks straight; A boy whose fingernails are not in mourning, whose ears are clean, whose shoes are polished, whose clothes are brushed, whose hair is combed, and whose teeth are well [...]
Why do I own a T.V.?
I’m thinking of “accidentally” dropping both of our television sets while we move. We used to live without tv altogether. Maybe they will go on the fritz as soon as basketball season is over. I just read this poem again, and while it’s rather tongue in cheek, it’s so-o-o-o-o true. Take a minute and give [...]
