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New Teeth

Finally, he has new teeth coming in! I knew something was brewing. The teeth on the bottom were moving and creating a big space. At first I thought he may have chipped a tooth from chewing on something. Every other day or so, I felt the teeth to see if they were loose, but they...

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Pictures of our School Room

When we moved into this house, this room was the laundry room. We moved the laundry room to another area and turned this into the school room. This room had two very very small old windows that opened from the center OUT with no screens. I had these new windows put in their place. I...

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Snow Day

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Draw Write Now + Drawing With Children

Oh Draw Write Now, how do we love thee? Let me count the ways! For art, we are combining several different resources. First we are working our way through Drawing With Children. While it’s a great book, it’s a little difficult to break down into nice neat little lessons. This lesson plan link for Drawing...

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Learning Geography by Heart

We are in the very beginning phases of learning to draw the world by heart. We are using the ideas found in The Core concerning geography. We began by adding the 5 great circles to our memory work. The five great circles are The Arctic Circle, The Tropic of Cancer, The Equator, the Tropic of...

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Invention – Wordless Wednesday

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A little bit of snow and an experiment

It’s been very cold this week! I don’t mind because I actually like that it kept us snuggled up in the house learning and reading and playing and just spending time together. It’s not often that we see much snow around here so when we woke up and saw the snow coming down at about...

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Enjoying Song School Latin

Yes, I think he is enjoying it.He requested it the very next day after we started it. He looks perturbed at the end because it ended. He likes it when I restart it before it ends. lol!

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Butterfly Kisses, Bridge Tunnel, Eskimo Kisses and Pig Noises

While in the waiting room to see the doctor, he asked if I brought anything for him to do…because I ALWAYS do! He’s always been such a wigglemonster that I usually have a book or a toy car or my phone. Today I told him no. He knew I had my phone and asked to...

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After the Holidays

It was really hard to get Griffin interested in lessons today. He did ok for a little bit but then he was done! He appears to be having some issues with his MEP math. To be honest, I do too.What I mean is that I really have to sit and think to figure out the...

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