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Download Audio Recordings of Public Domain Books
March 31, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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
March 30, 2008 By 1 Comment
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
The kids are cookin' up a storm!
March 29, 2008 By 4 Comments
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 [...]
March 29, 2008
Living Math Resources
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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 [...]
March 28, 2008
Internet survey of homeschoolers
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Megan at Half Pint House is conducting a bit of research and needs the input of Internet-savvy homeschoolers. If you take the short survey, you can also be entered in a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift certificate. So if you're a homeschooler who uses the internet (if you're reading this, the second point is [...]
March 27, 2008
We were scammed…
March 27, 2008 By 2 Comments
…but after 5 years, she's finally been caught! Way back in late 2002 we decided to purchase a PlayStation 2 for Jaden. We searched online and found what looked like a good deal on an auction site called sell.com. We communicated with the seller, Fran Edwards, through the website, and felt very comfortable with the [...]
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