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RSSMy children love to play outside. During the summertime they enjoy playing in the backyard, or riding their bikes, or swimming in a friend's pool. But being outside in 100 degree temperatures for such long periods of time isn't necessarily good for them. So when I have them come inside, such as during the hottest [...]
May 11, 2008
It's Official—Joely's a Sponge
May 11, 2008 By 2 Comments
As part of our homeschooling schedule, we've been reading through The Fallacy Detective on Fridays, and the kids have thoroughly enjoyed it. The last section of the book covers propaganda, so we've been discussing specific aspects of propaganda for the last few weeks. And Joely, my five year old, has been in the room each [...]
April 24, 2008
What to do with all the books?
April 24, 2008 By 4 Comments
We are book collectors. We're avid book readers as well, but we seem to collect books faster than we can read them. We have hundreds of fantastic books with great information in them—from science to history and everything in between—and I'm looking for a way to get my kids to read them. As part of [...]
April 21, 2008
Video Envy — My Eldest Daughter's Turn
April 21, 2008 By 2 Comments
Apparently Jerah was a little envious of her baby sister getting to do a video for my blog, so she decided to make one of her own. Jerah's, however, is a little more HGTVish than Joely's, which was more PBSish. I've got to say I was pretty surprised and impressed with the organization of Jerah's [...]
April 15, 2008
My Son's Beginning to Scare Me!
April 15, 2008 By 3 Comments
We've been studying composers the last few weeks, and on Mondays and Fridays I require the kids to listen to 30 minutes of the composer we've studied most recently. Last Wednesday we talked about Haydn, so the kids listened to some of Haydn's Creation both last Friday and yesterday, which was Monday. But just a [...]
March 31, 2008
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 [...]
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