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Chunk that Word! Reading Decoding Game

February 21, 2013 by Maureen Spell 5 Comments

My oldest son (currently 1st grade) had been reading along so well. We had studied short vowel patterns, blends, digraphs, bossy r patterns, and some long vowel patterns. Then he hit a little road block. Many of his independent reading books began introducing multisyllabic words and he simply froze. Because the words were longer, they […]

Filed Under: Elementary, Homeschool Tagged With: Becky Spence, decoding words, homeschool, literacy, reading

Need a Party Activity? Try Pick and Draw!

February 19, 2013 by Maureen Spell 37 Comments

art activity

This past weekend I had 5 preteens hang at my house for an evening in order to celebrate my 11yr. old daughter’s birthday. One thing I do when having a group of  kids over is to try to have at least 2-3 structured activities available. This helps keep things a little calmer (though with 5 […]

Filed Under: Elementary, holidays, Homeschool Tagged With: Art, art games, birthday, creativity, homeschool, Pick and Draw, Rich Davis

Learning About Birds: 7 Activities for Young Children

February 17, 2013 by Maureen Spell 2 Comments

bird of the day notebooking page

  Are you participating in the  Great Backyard Bird Count?  My kids are very interested in learning about birds, so I came up with some bird activities to last through the month. Each day this week we will go on a bird hunt and see what type of bird we can spy with our little […]

Filed Under: Homeschool, nature study, Preschool Science, science Tagged With: birds, free printable, Great Backyard Bird Count, homeschool, nature study, notebooking, notebooking pages, preschool science, science

Gregor Mendel, Genetics and Spudoodles

February 10, 2013 by Maureen Spell 3 Comments

spuds for teaching genetics

Sometimes when I look ahead at the biology module titles, I start to sweat. Will I be able to help my high schooler understand this when I don’t even remember what it is? Now I do have a basic (very basic) understanding of genetics, but my sleep-deprived brain (due to my sweet little newborn) had […]

Filed Under: high school, science Tagged With: Apologia Biology, free printable, high school, homeschool, notebooking, science

We Choose Virtues for Your Family

January 29, 2013 by Maureen Spell 1 Comment

We Choose Virtues Giveaway

We have been using We Choose Virtues for a little over a year now and it has been a very helpful tool in our household. What I like about this program is that it doesn’t take much time to implement. If I want to do extra activities, I can. If I don’t, no problem! It […]

Filed Under: Bible activities, Homeschool Tagged With: character training, giveaway, homeschool, We Choose Virtues

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