Monthly Archives: September 2008

New books for the 1st grade curriculum

Today I headed over to our lovely dollar store, where I find some of the most interesting curriculum content out there. Today, I got addition wipe cards. It is a packet of 20 cards chained together at the top with a wife off pen attached. There were 3 different DVDs with bible stories from the [...]

Homeschool Control Journal

of sorts… I have a 3 ring binder where I am daily writing his activities in categories, as well as 3 hole punching some of his work to include each day. So far, so good. I am happy to see that there are things we do formally and informally that fit into what would be [...]

Hands On Bible & other things

Yesterday, we took a trek over to our favorite Bible shop and bought a few things. We got my son a bookmark with Bob the Tomato from Veggie Tales. It says “God made you special and he loves you very much”. We also bought him the Hands-On Bible NLT and VeggieTales – Moe & The [...]

Unschool: science of life

He asked me what rabbits eat, and why animals eat rabbits. We got to talk about the circle of life. I couldn’t find that nifty chart that shows the animals eating the grass, the animals eating the animals, and man eating the animals … but he got the picture. I tried to make it as [...]

Counting to 100

He just returned from a lengthy visit with the in-laws and says to me: Mommy, I want to tell you something. I can count to 100. 1, 2, 3… He makes it all the way to one hundred with barely a reminder from me about the next set of ten! This kid!!! I guess we [...]