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Write with Primary Terms

Published on 2009-12-15 00:50:00

Michael Clay Thompson is the author of a fabulous but unconventional Language Arts program. He made a few interesting points in this video on vocabulary and writing.I have always taught my boys to add adjectives and adverbs to their sentences when wr > read more

The Classics

Published on 2009-12-14 20:26:00

Have you ever thought about reading the classics (either yourself or to your children) but shoved the idea because of the possible encounters with "old" words or expressions? Here is a list of classical words that you may want to be familiar with bef > read more

History : Patricians and Plebeians

Published on 2009-10-29 01:30:00

I have Charlotte Mason to thank for being able to integrate reading, comprehension, writing, spelling, vocabulary and grammar into history and social studies. I rolled all that in within an hour of read aloud, discussion and written narration!Well, t > read more

Art : Oil Pastel Layering

Published on 2009-10-26 07:49:00

[This project was done MANY months ago... ;-p]Jan Van Eyck was known to be the first to experiment with oil paints and brought it to "perfection". Oils, unlike egg tempera (a common medium before van Eyck's time), gives paintings a certain kind of sh > read more

Typing in Chinese

Published on 2009-09-22 02:39:00

I realized that many people are not aware that their Microsoft Word allows them to type Chinese characters. I have been asked numerous times how I do it so I thought it would be nice to just post the instructions here.This was how I turned on the Chi > read more

Light (part 2)

Published on 2009-09-19 02:08:00

Here are two optical instruments we made while we were on the topic of "Light".This is our periscope made by cutting and re-shaping a cereal box. It was painted white so it will camouflage with our white walls. ;-)I found a place that sold little pie > read more

Light

Published on 2009-09-14 09:57:00

First we read a 2-page spread from a book I have selected. Next, boys do a notebook page. Whenever possible, we try out an activity that demonstrates what was covered in our reading.Here are a few picture-worthy activities we did...We learned that li > read more

Space Rocks at Breakneck Speed

Published on 2009-09-09 06:16:00

We completed one whole chapter in our Exploring Creations in Astronomy book in record-breaking time! It was the lesson on Space Rocks. All done in one afternoon! Why? Because we wanted to catch the meteor shower - Perseids. (That was the second week > read more

Why the long silence?

Published on 2009-09-08 21:14:00

I have been having a lot of trouble with blogger for the pass few months. Every time, it is a different problem.First, my edit page was all messed up so that I could not "see" my draft. After that several other page formats gone all wrong as well. It > read more

Simplifying

Published on 2009-08-24 10:57:00

While working on our Miquon labsheets ... ... ...Me: Er... three-sixth? Can that be simplified?B: Hmm... oh yes! One tooth!Me: Ha?B: I mean half. > read more