Archives for March 2008

Filed Under: Family

The "Sport" of Letterboxing

Have you ever heard of letterboxing? I'd never heard of it before today. But it's little wonder I haven't heard of it before today; after all it is a fairly new "sport" I mean, it's only been around since the mid-1800s! (Am I really that unobservant??) Letterboxing can be described as a "modern-day treasure hunt," […]

Filed Under: Curriculum · Language Arts · Early Years · Homeschool Deals · Language Arts · Phonics · Reading Skills

Starfall Phonics Curriculum

If you're teaching your child to read, but you've never heard of Starfall, then you're missing out on a wonderful resource! Hurry on over to Starfall and check out their wonderful site. Here's a sample of what Starfall has to offer: Learn to Read—Zac the Rat and other tales: This is Starfall's absolutely wonderful interactive […]

Filed Under: Planning & Organization · Homeschool Planning

Grading Homeschool Assignments

Ever since we started homeschooling, I've struggled with the logistics of how and where the kids turn in their homeschool assignments for grading. We've finally developed a system that has—so far—worked well. The kids each have an assignment list that I generate with our Homeschool Tracker PLUS program. Ideally, they complete their work throughout the […]

Filed Under: Printables & Downloads · Free Curriculum

Latin Noun Declension Chart

I made a verb conjugations chart a couple weeks ago, and I've finally gotten around to making up a latin noun declensions chart. You can download a printable chart here. The chart was designed to go along with Latina Christiana I so I only included the first two declensions. Next year, when we do LCII, […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous

How to Replace a Cracked Ceramic Cooktop (Part 1)

We found replacing our ceramic stove top was cheaper than replacing our entire stove. Finding a replacement for our ceramic stove top was not an easy process. Here is the how and why we needed to replace the stove top in the first place. Early yesterday morning my husband fixed himself some toaster waffles for […]

Filed Under: Life Skills · Free Curriculum · Life Skills

Learn How to Tie Knots

As I posted before, in the last three weeks we've begun to learn knot-tying at home on Wednesdays, and the kids have had a blast learning. Here are the knots we've learned so far this year. (Joely's even learned all of them except 8-10.) overhand knot (single, double, triple, etc.) slip knot basic noose bowline […]