Our life in books



This is our eigth year of homeschooling and I finally got around to blogging about our adventures a few years ago.
I love the path that God has us on.
We get to enjoy the lightbulb moments in educating our children and have quite a few of them ourselves.

We are starting Exploration to 1850's this school year, 2012-2013 using My Father's World curriculum.
Rome to the Reformation,
Exploration to the 1850's and NOW.........

Below is the week by week of lessons for this year if you'd like to start at the beginning.
There is also a handy LABELS area that you can peek through to find a specific lesson.

Week by Week - MFW: Creation to the Greeks

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Ways to listen and save paper.

We starting reading 'The Hobbit' in November in anticipation of the movie coming at Christmas time.
The book is fantastic, a classic, a masterpiece in setting up the 3 following books, it's just also really wordy for their age. Tolkien's descriptions are sometimes paragraphs long about scenery. I love it, they tend to start moving around so....... we now color while we listen. It's great, no talking, lots of concentrating and sometimes a snack before bed.


Another new device that has saved us reams of paper already is this, 
THE BOOGIE BOARD!
It's an LCD writer that works well for math work, spelling words, and vocabulary lists, saving us lots of scratch paper.
Each student has one and they use them everyday. 
Fun to take in the car or to a waiting room and great for pictionary!


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