One of the best things we ever did when we started homeschooling was to make our own dry erase white boards. And it ended up being a lot easier — and cheaper — than we thought. Here's all you'd have to do to make your own set of boards. 1. Buy a sheet of melamine. […]
A Little Random Link Love
San Francisco Symphony for Kids: Learn about music and instruments with the San Francisco Symphony. Joely absolutely loves this site! Nourish Interactive: Nutrition education games for kids. Although this uses the "new" food pyramid (which I thoroughly despise), the information is great on this site, and the games are really engaging. Make Your Own Handwriting […]
Looking for good books for your kids to read?
Wouldn't you love to visit a website that regularly posts concise reviews of great children's books and offers an easy way to print off the information for reference? Sounds like the perfect resource for homeschoolers, huh! I've talked about this wonderful site before, but I just had to mention it again in case you missed […]
An Impromptu Homeschooling Lesson About Pianos
Homeschooling flexibility? What is that? Yesterday was a prime example of how homeschooling allows kids to pursue their interests and how a lesson plan can be easily set aside when another learning opportunity arises. I currently have two pianos in my house (I'm deciding which one I'm going to keep), so in this decision process […]
How to Throw a Low-stress, Low-cost Birthday Party
Shannon has asked us to repost a "Greatest Hits" Works for Me Wednesday. I've only had a couple posts so far for WFMW, so I decided to repost my very first one. So here it is! I don't like to spend a lot of money on birthday parties—I'd rather spend the money on my child's […]
Download Audio Recordings of Public Domain Books
Free downloads of either full text books or audio recordings are available. Many of you may already know that you can download the full text of over 20,000 public domain books on Gutenburg. But did you know you can download audio recordings of public domain books from LibriVox? I'm talking about authors like Austen, Alcott, […]
Our Non-Traditional Approach to Spelling
Our non-tradional approac to spelling works very well with our kids. I've never been fond of packaged spelling programs, so we've always done spelling pretty much on our own. I understand the need for sequenced lists in spelling programs, but I feel that it's much more helpful for kids to learn how to spell the […]
The kids are cookin' up a storm!
The kids have been cooking a lot lately. For lunch twice this last week Jaden and Jerah actually worked together [*shock*] to cook lunch for themselves—and yes, I realize that it was noon and they're still in their pajamas! One day last week they made noodles with homemade sauce. They looked in the pantry, determined […]
Living Math Resources
Attentional all homeschool parents who may need help teaching math! If you teach math (and that would be all of you), you've just got to check out this site I found today. Living Math is a wonderful site run by a homeschool mom that is replete with useful information about teaching math to your kids—especially […]
World's Best Brownies!
Well, they may not be the world's best, but they're pretty good! Last year the kids and I made up several jars of cookie and brownie mixes to sell at an auction at church. The brownie mix was a huge hit and I still hear people praising it—twice in just the last two weeks in […]
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