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I am sure that most of my readers read the article put out by CurrClick about Play. I thought it was such a great article, that I wanted to re-post it for those who may have not received their email. I have seen and heard that sometimes as homeschooler we can get caught up Continue reading Let’s Play Well, we are back from vacation and we had such a great time. We went to Lego Land. I think this was my children's favorite place of all. I think this was my favorite too. We saved about $175.00 on entrance fees. For all of you who may want to go but can not afford Continue reading Darn, Vacation is Over! I was many years into parenting before I realized that the most powerful tool in my toolbox, masterful nagging, did not work. I would remind, leave notes, cajole, tease, nag and harangue. Guess what? It didn't matter a bit. In fact, they acquired an uncanny ability to tune me out. The more animated Continue reading Does Nagging Work? Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I wanted to take a very quick moment before we leave to visit with family and wish all my readers, family and friends a FULLfilling day today! With that said I have two holiday videos to share with you today. The first one is of my friend singing the Fat Turkey song Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving Writing is not going away. In fact, writing is on the uptick! A case can be made that writing is becoming our culture's dominant form of communication. Email, text messages, tweets, and blog entries are all done in writing. Even on our electronic phones we do more texting than talking. Continue reading Teaching Writing in a Text-Message World One of my favorite things to do is to go on hikes, have the kids wade in streams and look for all sorts of different type of animals, draw in their nature journal and just have some good old fashion fun without all the play equipment. However, here in Orange County, California, most of the Continue reading Eisenhower Park The words path to learning offer us a great word picture. Word pictures (metaphors) can help us visualize and grab hold of a big concept and a deep meaning. The word "education" is not a word picture. While the word "education" has plenty of meaning, it's hard to picture. And the word itself may Continue reading Encouraging Kids Along the Path to Learning So I know most of you who may have gotten this post a few days ago are saying where is the actual blog post? Well, I am on vacation and so far until this very moment I have not had a chance to sit down and write. So I thought I will just post the Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 9 Update  November 13th, 2011 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Homeschool Curriculum, Reviews, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | Leave a comment So am I a bad Mom? This week was just off. Every night starting Sunday night we went to bed no earlier then 10:30pm. Ok, now my kids go to be by 8:30 maybe 9:00 if I read or we are running late at night. So going to bed 2 hours after bedtime was not Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 8 Update November 5th, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Reviews, Unit Studies | Leave a comment I am a huge advocate for HSLDA, in case you all have not figured that out by now. So because of that I try to support them in other ways when I can. Sometimes they sell things that either make great gifts or things I really would like to have. And the few extra dollars Continue reading Cookbook and Christmas Cards! |
