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I stretched out our early December activities and posted them over the past couple of weeks, but in reality we had a prolonged break for the holidays. I notice a number of comments and will try to get back to you soon. In the meantime, I want to rave about our amazing break. We had Grams and Gramps with us for three wonderful weeks. We did so much together. We...
Language Arts - Grammar Worksheets / Language Arts: Spelling
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 8, 2012 · Last modified February 19, 2017
I found a bingo card creator and have made several cards so LD can do some reviewing. This is the “long A” sound words, but you can create any word list you want. Here is the link to the bingo card creator website. I’m often raving about All About Spelling (affiliate link) and just wanted to include a picture of the tiles. Each lesson presents a new rule and before...
Recipes / Science / Science: Astronomy Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 4, 2012 · Last modified December 24, 2015
We had a lot of fun with this part of our astronomy unit.We talked about the phases of the moon. We started off with a lamp and held an egg in our hand. Then we moved the egg slowly around, watching how the shadow on the egg changed as the egg moved relative to the earth/our eyes. We all took turns slowly watching the shadows on the egg change (photo...
DD is learning a couple of new poems from a very old book we own from 1904 called the Value of Cheerfulness. We both like these poems and I thought I’d share them with you all. And since the poems are inspiring, why not some awe-inspiring art (left). I love, love, love Albert Bierstadt’s sweeping landscapes of the American West. They might not need me– Yet they might– I’ll let...
Language Arts - Grammar Worksheets / Language Arts: Spelling
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 2, 2012
We are doing lots of spelling review over the holidays just to keep things fresh. Today and tomorrow I’ll share some of the spelling things we’re doing to keep things fresh. Every now and then we pull out our spelling word sorts. LD goes over the rules he has learned for spelling. DD is just now becoming familiar with the rules. We use these to supplement the wonderful program we...
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