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Homeschooling, Parenting & Loving Life One Day at a TimeIowa Test
Today AA took his very first standardized test —the Iowa Test for the first grade— although he officially is finishing up kindergarten this school year. I was glad to see how enthusiastic about the test he was afterward. He thought he did great and said he couldn't...
Is Moving Beyond the Page a stand-alone curriculum?
Hi, I love your blog and it is so nicely put together! I am considering MBTP and also Sonlight. Do you think MBTP could stand alone as it's own curriculum? I also just bought AAS and will be starting right start math Level B. My son can read at 2nd-3rd grade so I...
MBTP Final Project: Geography of a Continent, Part 6 – Europe
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 3, Unit 1, Final Project: Geography of a Continent, Part 6 - Europe We are ready to conclude our series of continental posters today. We do have one left to do: Antarctica, but decided to tackle that one another time, if at all. It...
Handwriting Without Tears CD Song List – Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn CD Songs
Handwriting With Tears CD I put together a list of songs I found in YouTube that belong to Handwriting Without Tears CD Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn. This is a list in progress, I will include the songs in here as I find them. The number next to the song is the...
MBTP Final Project: Geography of a Continent, Part 5 – Australia and Oceania
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 3, Unit 1, Final Project: Geography of a Continent, Part 5 - Australia and Oceania Today we worked on the Australasia poster, the fifth one yet. This one was very easy and quick to do as there is only one major but rather small...
MBTP Final Project: Geography of a Continent, Part 4 – Africa
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 3, Unit 1, Final Project: Geography of a Continent, Part 4 - Africa We continue creating posters for the all the world's continents. AA has already done his initial poster on Asia, which was the one he chose to comply with the...
MBTP Final Project: Geography of a Continent, Part 3 – South America
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 3, Unit 1, Final Project: Geography of a Continent, Part 3 - South America We continue on with AA's wish to create posters for all continents. Though doing all continents wasn't the assignment, I'm happy to oblige. Today we worked...
MBTP Final Project: Geography of a Continent, Part 2 – North America
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 3, Unit 1, Final Project: Geography of a Continent, Part 2 So there wasn't really an additional part 2 for this project, but AA was really intent into completing posters for the rest of the continents as well. I thought it was a...
Kennedy Space Center’s Salute to Homeschool Field Trip
We had the opportunity to visit the Kennedy Space Center for its Salute to Homeschool event. It was the very first time that we had been there so it added to our enthusiasm. Once we arrived, we were very warmly greeted by the staff who had everything already prepared...
MBTP Final Project: Geography of a Continent – Asia
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 3, Unit 1, Final Project: Geography of a Continent Today we finished the final project for Unit 1 of the Culture Concept. We extended it into 2 days. The first day, yesterday, was devoted to research about Asia, which is the...