My kids love to draw, so I've scheduled into our homeschooling day some drawing lessons. Jaden is working through Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (the workbook), and he and I have been extremely pleased with it so far. After only a week, I think his drawing has already improved. The girls are […]
Archives for August 2008
The Golden Goblet (a vocabulary list/glossary)
My downloadable vocabulary list and glossary list is available free. See below. In preparation for the school year, I've been trying to read through some of the books my kids will be reading this year. One of those books they will be reading for history is the Newberry Honor book The Golden Goblet, by Eloise […]
Can a family of five eat out for less than $15?
We are a family of five and never thought we would find a place to eat out for less than $15 and it not be the $1 menu at McDonalds. We rarely go out to eat, but a friend of ours told us about a restaurant where we could get a full dinner that would […]
This is why kids need to understand idioms…
Idioms – a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words. Did you think of teaching your kids how to understand idioms? This story really happened to a friend of ours when we lived in South Carolina, and I thought it was so funny, I submitted it to Readers Digest several years ago. Unfortunately, Readers […]
Outline Maps: Ancient Egypt and Greece
Free downloadable and printable maps of Egypt and Greece that are just what I needed for our study. We're studying Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece with TruthQuest history this coming school year, so of course we'll be studying their geography as well. But to do that, I need a good, basic outline map of each […]