From the category archives:

math

Young children who are preschool/kindergarten aged seem to enjoy counting the first 100 days of school.  I did this for the first time with my now 6 year old when she was completing her Four Year Old Preschool year in our homeschool.  I generally sat down and worked with her three or four days a [...]

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Is it hurricane season again? Time to check your food supply, flashlight batteries, and all weather radio, just in case.  Then use the opportunity to create a kid’s hurricane unit study!
An added benefit is that by allowing your children to help prepare, you will help them take control of the situation.  Your hurricane preparation lesson [...]

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Many children have difficulty getting information from Point A to Point B. There are things inside their little brains that just don’t seem to get expressed coherently or appropriately. Earlier this year, I stumbled upon something that has become a light bulb moment in speaking to this issue.
LOGIC
I was pretty sure my children only needed [...]

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One of the best things about blogging regularly is the opportunity to look back at our homeschool year and see how we have grown.  I enjoy writing an end of the week post by subject for our homeschool.  Today I thought I would give you a peek into our most recent week.
Gospel – We begin our homeschool [...]

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Learning to Sew — The Magic Onions
I think this whole blog is pretty much amazing and had to immediately add it to my Google Reader. This particular post had a great idea about helping children learn to sew.
Living Math with Positive and Negative Numbers — Jimmie’s Collage
Introducing negative numbers can be such a difficult concept [...]

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It’s no secret that children learn while at play, possibly better so than at other times. We take advantage of this by incorporating  the Learning Game into our lessons.
The object of the game is to collect as many tokens as possible. On his turn, each player rolls the dice, adds the digits, and moves according [...]

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