I made cinnamon rolls this morning using a recipe Kate at A Simple Walk emailed me, and they turned out soooooo good! If you missed the cinnamon roll recipe in my post earlier this week, I've posted it here again for your palate's pleasure. Thank you, Kate! I'd like to say that these cinnamon rolls […]
Archives for April 2008
How to Teach Basic Geography Without a Curriculum
It's easy to teach geography without buying a formal curriculum. We've done it for years by making our own homemade geography lessons with an atlas, maps, flashcards, games and online interactive sites. I've always loved geography, but I wasn't very good at it until we started homeschooling. In fact, I've learned more in the last […]
Show and Tell Reading-Phonics Lesson Goes Video
We decided to change up Joely's reading/phonics lesson today and video recorded her reading a Bob book as a kind of Show and Tell. Joely, I think, has hit a big milestone this week in that she is suddenly sounding out words less and less and is reading with more fluency. Way to go, Joely! […]
Thirteen Delicious Blogger-Tested Recipes [Fifth Edition]
I've been trying to do a lot more baking lately, and I've had several of my blogging friends recommend recipes for me to try. So for today's T13, I thought I'd post 13 of the recipes I've collected over the past several days (as well as a couple oldies) that I've either made or plan […]
Grilled Pork ribs with a Good Rib Rub
Buying pork ribs on sale made it necessary for us to find a good pork rub to use for our grilling. We managed to grill pork ribs this evening. We've never attempted it before, but I picked up a package of boneless pork ribs for super cheap a few weeks ago, and since I'm trying […]
Homograph sentences to read and enjoy
Beyond our homophone list and into homograph sentences. My dad sent me this useful list of sentences that use homographs—words spelled the same, but pronounced differently. The list would be great to have kids read aloud for practice. The bandage was wound around the wound. The farm was used to produce produce. The dump was […]