I love nature journaling and often teach classes for other homeschool moms on how to teach nature journaling to kids. I keep my teaching notes in my own nature journal and love to share them[…]
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Lines of Symmetry Math Lesson Plan
A Family-Style Math Lesson, great for homeschool co-ops, or 4H STEM Supplies A copy of “Lines of symmetry definition” page for each student (see link to PDF below) A copy of “Alphabet Symmetry Page” for[…]
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Brainless Crowd Pleasers
I love to cook. It sparks a ton of joy to me to make and eat yummy, healthful food. I love to make a wide variety of meals. This hasn’t always been true. My friend[…]
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Free Custom Printables for Disc-Bound Planners
Want to learn more about disc-bound planners? CLICK HERE. As I wrote in my previous post, I am loving my disc-bound planner. I use a mix of purchased and DIY pages in my planner, and[…]
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Disc-Bound Planner
My experience Have you tried a disc-bound planner? What did you think? I have been using mine for several months now and am really enjoying it. I am a “Planner person,” if that’s a thing.[…]
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Spoons 24 Math Game
I love to play games and do math with my family and I’m trying to think of ways to make practicing multiplication more fun. Here is one idea. (This game is like the game “Spoons”[…]
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Pascal’s Triangle Discovery Lesson
Family-style lesson in discovering patterns with Pascal’s Triangle.
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Christmas Math Challenge Problem
In our homeschool, I love to give problems for my kids to try to solve that they have never seen before. That’s what mathematicians do. We solve new problems, or old problems in new ways,[…]
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One of our family’s favorite games is the Liger Game. It is an animal drawing game, where players choose 2 animal cards from a deck, and then have to draw one animal with features from[…]
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Giving life to an old Christmas Ornament
We had some ornaments in our stash that were a bit old and ugly. Elizabeth and I decided to give them a refresh. Here is what they looked like before. They were orange and black,[…]
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