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February 22, 2007
Heather L
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Homeschool Radio Shows

Posted in Homeschooling, and Reviews

Around Thanksgiving, I ran across a homeschooling family that put out the old time radio shows on the internet for free. I subscribed and received a fun series called Cinnamon Bear. We listened to one episode each evening up until Christmas (unfortunately, we didn’t finish due to illness). We had a blast listening to this series, so I subscribed to Living Books For the Ears. Each week, they send out a different program for your listening pleasure. Best of all, this is all free to you. They do have different cds available for sale as well, but they do not…

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February 20, 2007
Heather L
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Read to Me

Posted in Family, and Homeschooling

Since Christmas, our reading as a family and individual reading time really has dropped. We were having so much fun reading a book together each evening. When I ran across this challenge at Jennifer’s blog Snapshot, I thought it was a perfect motivation tool for myself. If you think that you would like to join in, head on over to here blog to learn more. Our goal is to read together each evening. I want to get back to reading the Narnia series. We were reading it faithfully each day, but we stopped around Christmas time. Now, it’s February and…

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February 14, 2007
Heather L
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Valentine’s Party

Posted in Holidays, and Homeschooling

Thankfully, the bad weather held off long enough for us to have the Valentine’s Party today. Munchkin was soooo excited. We spent the morning working on schoolwork and Valentine’s activities. I’ll post pictures tomorrow of some of our activities… After lunch, we headed over to the party. Here’s the cake that we ended up taking. Nothing special, but I think it turned out nicely. They had a great Valentine card exchange. Here’s a picture with all of her Valentine’s from the party. She’s holding the pink teddy bear that she won. The other teddy bear she received in the mail…

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February 13, 2007
Heather L
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Bad Weather or Valentine’s Party

Posted in Family, Homeschooling, and Thoughts

Tomorrow is the homeschool Valentine’s party. As you know, munchkin has worked hard making over 65 Valentine’s cards, and she’s really looking forward to the party. They have sooo much fun. They make bags for their Valentine’s and then head around the room dropping Valentine’s into each bag. They play Valentine’s bingo for cute stuffed animals. They have a book exchange. This year, a local pizza parlor is donating pizzas and drinks to go along with the normal goodies that everyone brings in to share. They usually play a few other games and just have fun goofing around. Well, here’s…

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February 10, 2007
Heather L
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Virtual Chocolate Tours & Lesson Plans

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I received some great information just in time for Valentine’s Day. I thought I would share it here. CHOCOLATE LESSON PLANS & MORE For an in-depth lesson on chocolate, visit the Exploratorium website where you can indulge in “The Sweet Science ofChocolate“. And don’t miss Homefires’ “A Valentine’s Day Chocolate Curriculum“by Fran Wisniewski with all kinds of links to the history andscience of chocolate along with chocolate literature suggestions,movies and videos about chocolate, and some fun chocolateactivities — great for you unit-study folks! We’ve also put together lots of fun chocolate learning activities for little ones. VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS TO…

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