Have you read any good ones with your kids lately? At our house we always have at least one read aloud going if not more. Usually we have one that is either a unit study or a go along with a unit study. We have one that is just for fun and sometimes Dan will decide he wants to read a particular ...
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Thomas Edison
Back in the fall, E did a Beyond Five in a Row unit study on a biography of Thomas Edison. He sure had a good time learning about Tom's life. He was especially interested in finding out that Thomas Edison left school to be homeschooled just like he did!E reports that he enjoyed learning about how ...
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The School Room and Play Space
Well- back in January I took some pictures of our school/play room. At the risk of showing my messy self, I will post some of these pictures. I would retake them or take them on a better day, but let's be real! On any given day this is our mess!I am working on making this space less cluttered, ...
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Little Nino’s Pizzeria
Well the scrapbook craze is on these days and I thought we'd try it out. I think the pages turned out pretty well. The kids are doing this as their notebook for each book instead of a lapbook or other type of notebooking. Maybe it's a phase, but I was thinking of trying out a portfolio of the ...
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FIAR- Owl Moon
Right after we finished our prairie study, we moved back into doing a Five in a row title called, Owl Moon.Once in a while I try out something new and this time I filled a living room table with all kinds of books and other items (even an owl pellet kit) that we'd be visiting throughout the week. I ...
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Our Little House Days
Last spring the kids really enjoyed reading the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder aloud together. To feed the fire of passion for these books we decided to do some unit study based on the book series.So far this year, we have done units on Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the ...
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