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All About Spelling Short Vowel Sounds
All About Spelling - Step 5: Short Vowel Sounds Today we reviewed the short sounds for all vowels and practiced putting together words with such sound. I so appreciate having the CD to play the sounds over and over again, as I'm learning them myself too. It was very...
All About Spelling $50 Gift Certificate Giveaway
All About Learning Press is having a $50 certificate giveaway. Make sure you comment on their blog in order to participate. http://blog.allaboutlearningpress.com/giveaway-50-gift-certificate-2/ We started using All About Spelling last week since AA was...
Homeschool Statistics Homeschooling Growing Strong
Homeschool Statistics Check out this infographic with homeschool statistics. Homeschool Domination? Why these kids will take you down. With America's public school system in a decline, more and more parents are turning to homeschooling as a solution. The surprising...
Field Trip to Fort Lauderdale’s Museum of Discovery and Science
Today we visited Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Discovery and Science. What a wonderful place. This museum is truly fascinating, there's so much to see and do and touch and experience. The exhibits are all kid-friendly, interesting and fun. This place is so worth a...
Field Trip to the Zoo
We visited Miami Metro Zoo today. As usual, children do enjoy going there and seeing the variety of animals and attractions they have throughout the zoo. We've gone there for quite a few times already and we renewed our membership today.
Our First Day with Handwriting Without Tears
Handwriting Without Tears - First Grade Today we started our handwriting practice with Handwriting Without Tears, I thought First Grade would be most appropriate over Kindergarten since AA has been doing a lot of writing already. He's been writing short sentences for...
Measurement Amusement Park – Part 2
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 2, Unit 3, Final Project: Measurement Amusement Park Today we worked on part two of the final project. We decided to break it into 2 parts (days) because there was a lot of planning and writing and didn't want to feel like we were...
Measurement Amusement Park – Part 1
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 2, Unit 3, Final Project: Measurement Amusement Park Today we worked on part one of our final project for Concept 2: Measurement. AA planned all the games in his amusement park, brainstormed on ideas that each game. He gathered...
Science and Measurement
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 2, Unit 3, Lesson 10: Science and Measurement Today we studied the ways that scientists use measurement to convey what they find in nature. First, as a meteorologist, AA entered data about different weather conditions. He had to...
Doubles and Near Doubles
Today we did lesson 9 in our level C RightStart Math curriculum which we both love. We reviewed doubles, i.e. 3+3=6, 4+4=8, etc. and near doubles, i.e. 1+2=3, 2+3=5, etc. We used the abacus sideways in order to clearly visualize the double and near double beads....