things I love thursday

Homeschool Prayer

November 5, 2009

Saying prayers with the kids before bedtime has always been a special time. Just as adults often do, they seem to sometimes get into a routine of saying the same things in their prayers and I have had to learn to be okay with that and accepting them where they are. My husband and I [...]

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Field Trip to the Bakery

October 15, 2009

A few weeks ago we read about bakers in our Social Studies book, The Usborne Book of Things People Do. At the end of the week, the kids and I took a field trip to one of our local German bakeries in town. We didn’t get a tour of the bakery or anything more involved. [...]

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Teaching Phonics with The Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading

September 17, 2009

Over the summer as I was planning out homeschool year I read two great reviews of The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading. Both were from bloggers that I love and respect greatly. One from The Pioneer Woman, who needs no other introduction and the other was from LoraLynn of Vitafamiliae. I did a little [...]

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