I have added an interactive tutorial to help your students learn the postal abbreviations. I have this thing about postal abbreviations. For some strange reason I think that having children learn them is useful — much more useful than learning the state capitals. We see postal abbreviations everywhere: on envelopes, on forms, in headlines, on news […]
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How a Bill Becomes a Law…in Great Detail
While looking for information on the branches of government today, I found an excellent and thorough explanation of how a bill becomes a law on the USA.gov website. I was even more surprised that the document was written in easy-to-understand English! How Our Laws Our Made is a 65-page document that explains succinctly how the […]
Planning a Family Vacation to San Antonio
We took a family vacation the first week of October to my husband's favorite city — San Antonio. Here's a rundown of the places we visited and our recommendations based on our experiences. Nimitz Museum (National Museum of the Pacific War), Fredericksburg, TX (RECOMMENDED!) This museum showcases an in-depth look at the life of Admiral […]
Customizable Homeschool Weekly Assignment Planner
For most of this school year, Jaden (my 8th grader) has been using a weekly assignment planner to help him organize his schoolwork. The planner form has evolved a bit since I first introduced it to him at the beginning of the year, being tweaked weekly until it met both Jaden's needs and my own. […]
How to Get Books for Free
Who doesn't like going to your mailbox and getting free books in the mail? I love it when emails show up in my inbox alerting me that my Swagbucks prizes have posted. Because that means I can go shopping! Here's what just arrived in the mail from my last shopping spree using Amazon.com gift cards I […]
How to Test for Divisibility (Free Divisibility Test Chart)
Lately Joely's been working on finding common factors in her math curriculum. She knows how to do short division already, which makes it quick and easy for her to find factors, but sometimes it's helpful to know ahead of time whether a number is divisible by a certain factor or not. We've talked about how […]
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