Trial gym memberships

Instead of $25 worth of chocolate or flowers, consider a gift of health this Christmas. Our gym (The Alaska Club) is offering inexpensive trial gym memberships right now. It’s 12 days for $25. We are going to give them to our 3 workers for Christmas presents. (Did I mention we hired another man last week [...]

No more dry skin itch

I have really dry skin, especially this time of year in early winter. The itch can be unbearable. At times, I have been known to scratch my legs until they bleed and still keep scratching. The itch just doesn’t stop. Over the years I’ve tried a lot of different oils, lotions and creams; even prescriptions. [...]

The Great Sock Hunt

Hmmm. No clean kids’ socks. I know it’s time to do laundry, but only 2 pair are in the basket. Where’s the others?
And so begins The Great Sock Hunt and Laundry Roundup today.
Behind the door. Under the bed. Under the sofa. Hey, this is a great way to teach prepositions !
There’s one hiding [...]

Sticker chart

A couple of weeks ago, someone left a soccer table (fooseball?) at the freecycle area. Wow! It was in good condition, so I brought it home. Richard had been having trouble getting his schoolwork done in a reasonable amount of time without tons of frustration and pestering by me and my husband. He’s also been [...]

Our weekly schedule

I have finally settled into a weekly school schedule. We do 3 subjects everyday: language arts, reading and handwriting. The others we do 1 or 2 days each week. That way we can cover them in more detail at once without making our days too long, usually about 3-4 hours not including breaks. So [...]

Fun with science: gears, wheels, axles

The science order from Rainbow Resource arrived today. Yeah! It looks just perfect for us this year. We’ll be studying matter & physics for science and the human body for health.
Rather than just reading the books and taking tests or doing worksheets, we will be making practical applications whenever possible. So today we started playing [...]

Bible coloring book for sale

I’ve listed a new Bible coloring book for sale on E-bay. It’s Bible Pictures to Color by Rod & Staff. Great for free time or Bible activity/devotions for preschool and early elementary. There are 60 pages. Each page gives a short description as well as which verses it goes with.
This is a great coloring book. [...]

Almost ready for school

This afternoon I spent some time organizing our homeschool materials getting ready to start school on Monday. I straightened the beginning readers. I took everything off the shelf that held the teacher guides, work samples, and other things I use in the administration of my homeschool. I threw out old papers and duplicate catalogs, packed [...]

3rd grade science

My son loves science, but not the watered down science textbooks for elementary students. He wants more detail then they usually provide. I looked through the 8 content standards he needs to cover for the next 2 levels. He does half this year then half next year. We decided to focus on physical science this [...]

Learning patience

I’ll be the first to admit I’m not the most patient person. I get frustrated at little things that go wrong, only to have it work out in the end. I get frustrated at being frustrated. I don’t want my kids to be that way. There’s no need for it.
Today my son made a toy [...]