Homeschool Middle School World History for Free
This business of homeschooling can get mighty expensive! It can be so hard to find quality resources at no (or low) cost. There are often freebies out there but they are incomplete, or not enough, or just not what you are looking for. I was so excited to come across these FREE Homeschool Middle School […]
Mega List of Homeschool Spanish Resources {for all ages}
I have scoured the Internet and homeschool groups to create this Mega List of Homeschool Spanish Resources for all ages – apps, full curriculum, online, live, video, text and more!
365 Project ~ Days 39-50
A Day Thirty-Nine: Tuesday, February 8th A A This is the latest “girl band” to hit the music scene. Their name is Chloe and The Mush! I can tell from having heard it that their music lacks rhythm and melody, but the joy that abounds from them is contagious! A Day Forty: Wednesday, February 9th […]
Weekly Wrap-Up ~ My First Giveaway
A Monday: Today was a big day, for me anyways. I have had my blog for over a year now. But over the past few months I have been working towards making it geared more towards homeschooling. Both for myself to have easy access to all the links I love, and books I have read, […]
Book Review ~ Little Bee
[image width=”170″ height=”253″ frame=”simple” align=”left”]http://www.startsateight.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/0429_littlebee-chris-cleave-book-cover_170x253.jpg[/image] Title: Little Bee . Author: Chris Cleave . Copyright Date: 2008 . Brief Character List: Sarah – a British magazine editor, her husband – Andrew, their son – Charlie, better known as Batman, Little Bee – a Nigerian refugee, Lawrence – the man Sarah has been having an affair with […]
Simple Woman’s Daybook ~ Tuesday February 15th, 2011
Simple Woman’s Daybook FOR TODAY: Tuesday February 15th, 2011… . Outside my window…the sun is shining. It has been nice over the past week to see the sun. We have had so many days of dreary skies, negative temperatures, and snow. . I am thinking…about how behind I feel on my blog. I have many […]
Review: Pick and Draw
I came across Pick and Draw in November of 2010 while perusing through the many wonderful homeschool blogs out there. My husband and I tried the demonstration on their website and loved it! It wasn’t until after Christmas that I finally purchased it for my family. (After, of course, trying to win them on various […]
Ten on Ten ~ February 10th, 2011
Ten on Ten: Take a photo every hour for ten consecutive hours on the tenth of each month. Document a day of your life and find beauty among the ordinary moments. . . This is what Ava is currently calling decorating. She has tubs of sticky foam shapes which she layers onto a paper. She […]
365 Project ~ Days 34-38
. Day Thirty-Four: Thursday , February 3rd . . We were supposed to take the trampoline down before the first snow. Well, our first snow came on Dec 1st and surprised us! Thus it is still up in the backyard. The kids enjoy it even in the cold. But in the past couple of weeks […]
Wordless (almost) Wednesday
. I took the 2011 photo this past weekend. Then a few hours later Chloe was showing me a photo and she was altering with a photo app on her ipod. I thought it was the 2011 one and questioned her as to how she already had it on her ipod. It turns out it […]
Critters In The Cold
This month in our zoo class at the Seneca Park Zoo we talked all about animals that live in the cold. Upon walking in the door, the first thing we were able to see was a large stuffed polar bear. We talked about 4 differences between an animal more suited for the cold, snowy weather, […]
365 Project ~ Days 28 – 33
. Day Twenty-Eight: Friday, January 28th . . SHARK TEETH!!! This seems to be Jayden’s way of losing and gaining teeth. If you look at his teeth he has an adult tooth on either side of his 2 front bottom teeth. Which is fine, except he still has both baby teeth too! . Day Twenty-Nine: […]
Review: Time4Learning
I have been working hard over the past week to develop a “Review” page here on my blog. I have a bunch of Reviews coming over the next couple of weeks. I am happy to report that amongst those will be a Review of Time4Learning. This one will come a little later, after we have […]
Teaching the Color Wheel
This is a lesson in teaching the color wheel. Not only do we cover the terminology but we also have some fun painting our own color wheels. Teaching the Color Wheel Using the color wheel print outs from Enchanted Learning, I set out to teach the kids about primary, secondary and tertiary colors, as well […]