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16 Feb

A few months ago, in an effort to make our home a little safer and environmentally friendly, I wanted to start making my own laundry soap.  So I did some research, namely Pinterest, some bloggers and some DIY books.  Not so surprisingly, everyone announced that their recipe was the best.  I could find no agreement as to whether liquid or powdered was better…  it was all very confusing for a beginner such as myself.  I finally settled on a powdered recipe that seemed to be repeated multiple times throughout the blogosphere, and because it seemed to be one of the most simple recipes. ...

06:00 / Health and Wellness / Our Best Life / Recipes
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13 Feb

Clark has been struggling with remembering which numbers are odd and which numbers are even.  I get it – I couldn’t remember at his age either.  It seemed like a rather random designation to me.  Our brains are the same.  I know he needs a creative link to make the connection permanent, so we came up with a creative way to remember even and odd numbers. Isn’t that just another awesome thing about homeschool, by the way?  We know our kids!  We know what they need and what they’ll respond to. So we went to the library and took out several books on...

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11 Feb

As part of the science component in our study of the book Very Last First Time, we decided to look at some of the properties of salt water.  Our first experiment was to look at how evaporation would separate salt water. Salt Water Evaporation Experiment This super simple salt water evaporation experiment is a very basic experiment, but I wanted to introduce the Scientific Method right from the beginning.  We started very basically; I figured it was probably age-appropriate to cut out the research step.  I did a short search but didn’t come up with exactly what I was looking for, so I created my own form:  “My...

06:00 / Five in a Row / Homeschool
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10 Feb

I saw this great statistic the other day circulating among homeschoolers on Facebook.  It compared the amount of time public schooled children spend on their studies as compared to homeschooled children. The logic was that children attending public school spend 180 days in school for 12 years of their life. This is equivalent to 2160 days or 5.9 years of school.  Homeschoolers, on the other hand, are in their learning environment every day, all year round.  The message was RELAX!  We’ve got 18 years to accomplish 5.9 years of school! Don’t you love that?  I am acutely aware that I am still tied to the public school way...

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02 Feb

We are reading Very Last First Time for our Five in a Row study. The story takes place in an Inuit village in northern Canada. As we read the story Clark and Luci became fascinated with igloos and wanted to build one. This tends to very difficult when you live in Texas and the temperatures are a ridiculously warm 75° in January! So, very logically, we decided that we would figure out how to build an igloo with marshmallows.  I didn’t get much objection from Clark and Luci either. What You’ll Need: I suggest using whatever is around your...

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30 Jan

We are currently reading the book Very Last First Time for our Five in a Row curriculum.  The story is about an Inuit girl who faces an incredible challenge alone for the first time.  The story takes place in Ungava Bay, Canada, so we have been learning about Northern Canada.  Clark and Luci have been especially interested in the Inuit people and their culture.  As we have learned about it, we found an Inuit girl craft with coffee filters that looked like it would be fun to make. What You’ll Need Clark noticed that in practically all of the pictures and videos that we...

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