If you live in the Greater Houston area, are a (homeschooling) family and have yet to take advantage of Free First Sunday then I say for shame, for shame! On the first Sunday of every month, a certain retail mega-chain with a bull’s eye for a logo foots the bill and everyone gets into […]
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When you are six, a table covered with a blanket is not a table, but a deep, dark cave. And a touch light is a carved bowl of burning animal fat. When you are six, you can become a caveman or cavewoman as easily as you breathe, crushing and mixing your paint in a bowl with […]
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Hello, my name is Obsessive Homeschooling Mom. And I am a Curriculum Junkie. As we work through the material on hand, I am always on the look out for the next step. For months I have been reviewing sources for our next steps in science and history. As we are planning to follow the general scope and sequence […]
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Today I taught my first Itsy Artists class for our homeschooling group’s exhuberant seven and under crowd. This month we are exploring the arena of drawing. February is a great month for them to make their marks. I am using First Art by MaryAnne Kohl and Art Adventures at Home Level 1 as my primary […]
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We have been moving right along here and have been quite busy lately with an assortment of in and out of the house lessons and activities as 2007 winds down rapidly. I am now actively looking ahead to 2008 and all the glorious potential it holds for us.
Our wonderful homeschooling group, Learning Adventures of Fort Bend is […]
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Never underestimate the power of some precise paper folding. Origami has become a fantastic activity for Kindy Girl, training her patience, attention to detail and fine motor skills in a productive and beautiful way. She is delighted with the menagerie her new found passion is producing and I am delighted with the focus she is […]
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We set ourselves up at the dining room table for our Crazy Fun Art Day Extravaganza with the twins strapped into their highchairs without the trays and the table covered in newsprint from a recently unpacked box of assorted junk. I pulled two activities, one each from Art Adventures at Home Level One and First […]
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Crunchy Mama waxes philisophical from her happy Texas home where she resides in matrimonial bliss with Patris Maximus and the Triad of Chaos: the ring leader, Athena, and her devoted twin followers, Apollo and Artemis