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Learning Outside The Classroom

Friday, May 27, 2011

Art by Niki de Saint Phalle
If I had to look back on our past month or so, I would say learning outside the classroom has been our focus.  Learning about the world around us and learning about ourselves.  I mean, yes, we have been doing daily math lessons, we have been watching educational movies involving [...]

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Teaching Textbooks Love

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

I cannot begin to tell you how much I love Teaching Textbooks.
When we started this year [Grade 7], Rye would not use this program.  We tried a few sample problems from their website
http://www.teachingtextbooks.com/
and I loved it but because he is learning disabled and was used to having a live person teach him, he wanted [...]

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The Best Days

Saturday, April 2, 2011

I can’t help but think
that one day I will look back
on this time in my life
and think
these days
were some of the best days
of my life.

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Miracles Do Happen

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Apparently Rye’s talk with God the other day helped.
Last night he sat down, completely of his own free will while Don and I were watching TV in another part of the house, and wrote a 2 page, single-spaced story about himself.  No one asked him to do this.  There was no assignment he was trying [...]

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America: The Story Of Us ~ The History Channel

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

We are watching this History Channel series on the history of America now as a part of our homeschooling and I can’t even tell you how good it is.  We have just started but we are watching one episode a day to enhance our learning of American History and it is really entertaining.  It is [...]

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