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Collage Friday: Leaping, Cutting and Pasting
1. We celebrated Leap Day with a “fun school” day. Despite my previous aspirations, we did not do a 100 days celebration as well. Between the amount of time I was able to find to prepare, and...
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Collage Friday: When Life Gives You Broken Eggs…
Have you read the story or seen the episode of Thomas and Friends where Thomas drives too fast and breaks the farmer’s eggs? At the end of the story Sir Topham Hatt tells Thomas that all is well...
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Get Ready for Pi Day!
I know there are lots, and lots of random holidays out there. But Pi Day might be one of my most favorite! Pi day is March 14th. (Get it? 3-14?). The past few years we have celebrated Pi day just by...
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MACHE Conference 2012 Wrap-Up
I had the opportunity to attend the MACHE (Minnesota Association of Christian Home Educators) annual conference in St. Paul last weekend. It was only my second time attending a homeschool conference,...
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Collage Friday: Now with added Kindergarten!
It was nice to have a “normal” week of sorts after our short week last week filled with preparations for Miss M’s Expert Day presentation. But it was a “normal” with an added twist. As I talked to...
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How We Picked a Math Curriculum Part 2 — Choosing and Using RightStart Math
About two months ago, I wrote about our initial attempts at finding a math curriculum that would work for us. I’ve been meaning to write the second part…but I kept putting it off in favor of more time...
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Collage Friday: Sewing Week!
I certainly did not start out this week planning on teaching the kids to sew. Miss M has been asking to learn to sew for months. Now, I know a little bit about sewing, but it’s not a really strong...
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Collage Saturday: C is for Completion Celebration
This week I’ll start out with a big highlight: Miss M finished RightStart Math Level C. Yea!!! This level of RightStart Math is pretty long, and from what I’ve heard many students take over a year...
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Collage Friday: Halloween, a Birthday (and a bit of school too)!
We were probably a bit less productive than usual in terms of schoolwork this week. Monday Miss M had an eye exam in the middle of the day, plus we had other errands. Tuesday we celebrated Baby J...
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Collage Saturday: Christmas Fun Begins
After a quiet Thanksgiving at home, we enjoyed plenty of fun family time last weekend playing games, doing crafts, watching movies and a local Christmas parade on TV, and getting a bit more decorating...
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