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Filed Under: Family

"Food Network" for the Homeschooler

Our local homeschool club cooking lesson was a blast. The homeschool club, which I helped found just over a year ago, meets every Wednesday at our local library. We're mainly a social group, and we don't have much structure when we meet, but we did hold a very structured—and very fun—event this last Wednesday. There's […]

Filed Under: Home Management · Recipes

Chicken pot pie the easy way!

I teach piano lessons every afternoon until 5 or after, so it's difficult to have time to make dinner, especially on evenings when we have church or band practice. As a result, most evenings we just YO-YO [a term meaning "You're On Your Own" that we learned from our friend Michelle], but on occasion I […]

Filed Under: Printables & Downloads · Free Curriculum

Latin Verb Conjugations Chart

Being a very visual person, I felt a Latin Verb Conjugations Chart would help my children learn their verbs easier.  I made up a color-coded chart for our Latina Christian I curriculum that covers the verb conjugations we're studying this year. You can download a PDF for your own use.

Filed Under: Social Studies · Free Curriculum · History · Social Studies

Make your own Ancient History coloring sheets

I found these fantastic (and free) ancient history fonts that are great for making your own coloring sheets. These would be great to use with Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World: Ancient Times (the wonderful history curriculum we use). It's easy to make the coloring sheets. All you have to do is: Download and […]

Filed Under: Language Arts · Language Arts · Reading Skills

The Stages of Reading

Frank Armbruster wrote an article in Practical Homeschool in which he listed his idea of the "Stages in Reading." Frank Armbruster's Stages in Reading 0 — Non-reading 1 — Realization that some marks on a printed page stand for words (phonemic awareness) 2 — Learning the code to translate the marks to sounds (emerging reading) […]

Filed Under: Curriculum

Books from my childhood

I know my mom read me a lot of books when I was a child, but only a few really stand out in my memory; and these few I have made sure I read to my own children. Of course, I'm always curious about what others like, too, so leave a comment to let me […]

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