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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Haikus by Caleb
We use the Language Lessons books from Queen Homeschool. Yesterday the lesson for Caleb was how to write Haikus. Fun was had by all. I love fiddling around with words so I couldn’t resist the temptation to help him, too much. But he finally caught on. He caught the Haiku fever. Here are some of [...]
The House of the Mouse
The house of the mouse is a wee little house, a green little house in the grass, which big clumsy folk may hunt and may poke and still never see as they pass this sweet little, neat little, wee little, green little, cuddle-down hide-away house in the grass. –Lucy Sprague Mitchell What a gem of [...]
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 [...]
God, My Creator
My little body’s made by God, Of soft, warm flesh and crimson blood; The slender bones are placed within, And over all is laid the skin. My little body’s very weak; A fall or blow my bones might break; The water soon might stop my breath; The fire might close my eyes in death. But [...]
