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May 2009

Menu Plan Monday: The Breakfast Challenge

Whoever says you can't form real friendships over the internet is completely wrong. Toni, Kate, and I started our friendships through reading each other's blogs in February of 2008, and our friendships grew through our interaction on the internet. Then earlier this year we all met in person (and found out that we like [...]

Learn the States and Postal Abbreviations

One of the things I love about homeschooling is the ability to focus on certain aspects of a subject that I feel are more applicable to real life than others. Knowing the names and locations of the U.S. states (yes, I know U.S. states is redundant) and each state's postal abbreviation is one of those [...]

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A Love Affair With Her Thesaurus

If you know me at all, you won't be surprised that I can wax elloquent about a thesaurus. I'm just a geek that way.
But apparently Jerah is the same way, because there's a particular thesaurus which she has fallen in love with. This love affair with her thesaurus began when she started to sprinkle the [...]

Help For the Homeschool Parent: How To Improve Your English Skills Painlessly

I've heard many homeschooling parents say that they don't know how they're going to teach English grammar or writing to their kids because they've never been very good at it themselves.
But my question is this — if we expect our kids to learn things when they don't know much about a subject, why can't we [...]

Schooling Out of Doors

One of Jerah's drawing assignments today called for her to draw something outside. And since I'm the paranoid mother that I am and I refuse to let my 10-year-old daughter stay outside in the front yard for extended periods of time by herself, I moved everyone outside and we did our schoolwork in the sunshine.
It [...]

Teaching Your Kids About Guns

As Americans, our right to bear arms is — or at least should be — protected under the Constitution. Guns are an integral part of American life, and as such, I want my kids to be knowledgeable about guns. Not that I'm going to take them out on the gun range and teach them to [...]

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