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Homeschooling, Parenting & Loving Life One Day at a TimeReal Math Games for Kids – Using Math Skills in Real Life
Real Life Math Games to Reinforce Math Skills As you may recall, we are using RightStart Mathematics for our homeschool math curriculum. Both, Super Hero and I love RightStart Math. It relies heavily on games to reinforce and cement understanding and knowledge. We...
Writing Apps for iPad for Kids Make Writing Fun
Writing Apps for iPad for Kids That Make Writing Fun? I'm In! I love it when I find a freebie that makes our learning more enjoyable and, better yet, that succeeds in keeping Super Hero enthusiastic about writing. This little writing iPad app for kids packed a punch...
Field Trip Ideas in Miami, Florida and Beyond
Field Trip Ideas or To-Do or To-See or To-Tour Wish List I find myself constantly jotting down ideas or making mental notes about family field trip ideas that I get from friends, blogs, books or just simply by looking around. I thought I'd post a list to revisit often...
Honoring your Children Notes on Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self Discovery
Honoring your Children Summary of David Albert's Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self Discovery Cleaning out my desk yesterday, I stumbled upon some notes I had jotted while reading "Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery: A Journey of Original Seeking" by...
Art Classes for Homeschoolers Children in Miami
Interested in Supplementing with Outside Art Classes in your Homeschool? This chart on Art Classes for Homeschoolers include places that teach art and look quite compelling to supplement any learning curriculum. Even though I included all that I could find, I'm sure...
Free Family Homeschool Planner
My Family Homeschool Planner is Here! I am so happy to post my latest creation: My Family Homeschool Planner. I included some tips and ideas I've been gathering during our family's first year homeschooling which will conclude at the end of this month of August. I'm...
Desert Collage Art
Desert Collage with Acrylic Paints We finally got to do our first 'real' art project following the fantastic "The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas". There are literally lots of ideas for fun projects that look fairly easy to make. I gave Super Hero 3 options based...
National Piano Playing Auditions by National Guild of Piano Teachers
Super Hero's First National Guild of Piano Teachers Audition Congratulations to our super Super Hero for a wonderful debut performance before the National Guild of Piano Teacher's National Piano Playing Auditions held here at the University of Miami's Coral Gables...
Taking a Summer Break from Homeschool?
To Break or Not to Break our Homeschool for Summer? --That is the Question With public school classes coming to an end here in Miami Dade county, it's officially the beginning of summer. Private school camps have already started a couple of weeks or so ago. And now a...
A Guidebook to Africa
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 3, Unit 2, Lesson 9: African Culture So after completing the South American Culture and Asian Culture lessons, we moved on to Africa, the last in the series. This went fairly quickly as AA worked his way around the Google Docs...