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March 2008

March 31, 2008

Wanna help me win dinner out with my husband?

I recently entered an online contest called Love GenX Style hosted by Tricia Goyer, one of the (homeschooling) Christian authors that I like to read. The winner of the contest gets dinner out with their spouse (woohoo—free food!).
The contest rules required that I post the story of how Jeff and I met and "fell in [...]

March 31, 2008

Attention, everyone, Joely has an announcement to make…

March 31, 2008

Download Audio Recordings of Public Domain Books

Many of you may already know that you can download the full text of over 20,000 public domain books on Gutenburg. But did you know you can download audio recordings of public domain books from LibriVox? I'm talking about authors like Austen, Alcott, Jack London, Kipling, and hundreds more.
This is a great way to [...]

March 30, 2008

Our non-traditional approach to spelling

I've never been fond of packaged spelling programs, so we've always done spelling pretty much on our own. I understand the need for sequenced lists in spelling programs, but I feel that it's much more helpful for kids to learn how to spell the words that they're using in everyday writing.
I do have the [...]

March 29, 2008

Murphy strikes again

Only a few weeks ago we had to replace the ceramic cooktop on our range. Now our dishwasher needs to be fixed!

But at least this appliance breakdown isn't as big a deal as the stove was. In fact, it might turn out to be a very good thing. We're actually washing dishes after every meal [...]

March 29, 2008

The kids are cookin' up a storm!

The kids have been cooking a lot lately. For lunch twice this last week Jaden and Jerah actually worked together [*shock*] to cook lunch for themselves—and yes, I realize that it was noon and they're still in their pajamas!

One day last week they made noodles with homemade sauce. They looked in the pantry, determined what [...]

March 29, 2008

Need help teaching math? Check this out!

Attentional all homeschool parents! If you teach math (and that would be all of you), you've just got to check out this site I found today.
Living Math is a wonderful site run by a homeschool mom that is replete with useful information about teaching math to your kids—especially kids who have a little difficulty with [...]

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