Our garden isn’t ready yet, but our neighbors have been blessing us with some of theirs. So we’re eating lots of great home grown veggies this week (and last week, too!) As part of our Olympics study, we’re eating a couple of traditional English meals this week. Fish and chips (fries), as well as…
As part of The Schoolhouse Review Crew, I received King Alfred’s English by Laurie J. White to review. Do you remember the first time you looked under the hood of a car or popped off the back of an electric toy to see the inner workings? Well, most of us go through our entire…
As part of the Schoolhouse Review Crew, I was sent Create Better Writers to review. Create Better Writers offers materials for kindergarten through 12th grade that show you how to teach writing and grammar. I received 3 eBooks to review: How to Write a Paragraph, How to Teach the 5 Paragraph Essay and the Homeschool…
I’m back again to share my garden tour. I’m starting with a favorite of mine. The Mimosa blossom. So pretty and delicate, and fragrant. We can walk outside the door and smell them. The hummingbirds love them, also. Here’s the Mimosa tree view from the back yard. See all the blossoms? It’s a gorgeous tree….
This week has been all about the Olympics. We’ve been watching as much as possible live, and then watching what we missed. We’ve had lots of great discussions about time differences, the metric system, and sports rules. We’ve been working on our lapbooks, also. We haven’t had any of our English Olympic food yet, but…
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