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Archive for December, 2008
The Geek Thesaurus
Posted in Fun, Language Arts, tagged dictionary, Education, english, english language, Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, Language Arts, princeton university, reader, readers, school, thesaurus, Visuwords, VSL, word association, writer, writers on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Take a Break: Play Drawminoes
Posted in Games, tagged Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The world record for domino-toppling was set four weeks ago, in the Netherlands; it involved the use of 4,079,381 tiles, and took two months to set up. The Drawminos website won’t consume that much of your time — unless you want it to. The site’s click-and-drag dominoes couldn’t be easier to set up, and the [...]
My Personality via Typealyzer
Posted in Fun, tagged typealyzer on December 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Angela at Under The Sun, blogged about this neat website called typealyzer, whereby you put in your blog address and the typealyzer reveals your personality. I have three blogs and they revealed three DIFFERENT personality types….does this mean I have multiple-personality disorder? The analysis indicates that the author of http://www.jhcckkm.wordpress.com is of the type: ESFP [...]
AAR for Week of November 24-28, 2008
Posted in Weekly AAR, tagged Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, weekly report on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday History/Social Studies-Movie: Mandate: The President and the People Language Arts-pgs. 35 & 36 from Reading Comprehension; Math-MUS Webpage generated worksheet for Lesson 19 Reading-Jumanji, G is for Goat, Bunny Cakes, Sheep on a Ship, Honey…Honey…Lion!, An Outlaw Thanksgiving, Oma and Bobo Quiz (www.bookadventure.com)-Jumanji, Bunny Cakes, Sheep on a Ship Tuesday History/Social Studies-Movie: Key Constitutional [...]
AAR for Week of November 17-21, 2008
Posted in Weekly AAR, tagged Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, weekly report on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday No School Tuesday No SchoolWednesday History/Social Studies-Movie: The Presidents: Vol. 1; Language Arts-pgs. pgs. 49 & 50 from Reading Comprehension; Reading-Bailey School Kids: Gremlins Don’t Chew Bubble Gum, Junie B. Jones: First Grader: Aloha-ha-ha!, Junie B. Jones: Is Captain Field Day, Woodrow for President, If I Ran for President, Quiz (www.bookadventure.com)-Junie B. Jones: First [...]
AAR for Week of November 10-14, 2008
Posted in Weekly AAR, tagged Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, weekly report on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday Math-pgs. 19B & 19E Tuesday History/Social Studies-Movie: The Supreme Court: One Nation Under Law Vol.1; Language Arts-pgs. 27 & 28 from Reading Comprehension; Math-Math-U-See-pgs. 19C & 19F Reading-Picnic, Sunflower House, When Pigasso met Mootisse, Billy Goats Gruff, Sweet Dreams, Parsnip, The Little Engine That Could, Sheep in a Shop Quiz (www.bookadventure.com)-The Little Engine That [...]
AAR for the Week of November 3-7, 2008
Posted in Weekly AAR, tagged Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, weekly report on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday History/Social Studies-Movie: Just the Facts: United States Constitution; Quiz (www.BookAdventure.com)-Night I Followed the Dog Language Arts-pgs. 21 & 22 from Reading Comprehension Math-pgs. 18C & 18F Reading-Private I. Guana, Night I Followed the Dog Science-Read Ritterhouse and the Orrery (pg 38, 39, 40) from Science in Colonial America Tuesday History/Social Studies-Electoral College Map [...]
AAR for Week of October 27-31, 2008
Posted in Weekly AAR, tagged Home Education, Home School, Home Schooling, Homeschool, weekly report on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday No School Tuesday History/Social Studies-Read Use a Land and Resource Map (pgs. 70 & 71) from States and Regions ; Vote!; A New World is Discovered from My Fun with Learning; Quiz (www.BookAdventure.com)-Vote!; Language Arts-Pgs. 15 & 16 from Reading Comprehension Math-DVD Lesson 17 Worksheet pgs. 17A and 17D Reading-Dear Zoo, Sam Who Never [...]
AAR from October 20-24, 2008
Posted in Weekly AAR, tagged Home Education, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschooling, weekly report on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday Geography-pgs. 26 & 27 from Beginning Maps and Globes History/Social Studies-Read I Pledge Allegiance, Stars and Stripes, The Pledge of Allegiance; 1655 ~ Keeping Watch, Keeping the Faith from The American Story Language Arts-Pgs. 5 & 6 from Reading Comprehension Math-Math-U-See-pgs. 15C and 15E Reading-The Night Before Christmas, The Kids in Ms. Colman’s Class: [...]
Ponder for 12/4/2008
Posted in Ponder, tagged famous quotes, Ponder, quotes, writings on December 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Did you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? – Robert Orben Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. – Phillip K. Dick I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle [...]
