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Set the Manipulatives Free

August 3, 2009 By Jimmie Quick 19 Comments

At the HSS forum a mom explained how she took the math manipulatives down from the bedroom closet shelf. She sorted the goodies into baskets, shelves and drawers, all accessible to the children. Wonderful! The fun math tools aren’t helping anyone on a bedroom shelf. That started me thinking about the hands-on things we have. […]

Filed Under: hands-on homeschool, living math Tagged With: living math, manipulatives, math, recycling, science

Sneaking in Some School with Dinosaurs

July 20, 2009 By Jimmie Quick 9 Comments

Even though she’s ten, I still read books aloud to Sprite.   I enjoy our time together and the shared memories we create through reading. And the best part is that I can sneak in some learning without it being considered “school.” We’ve been taking summer break mainly because her local friends are on vacation now […]

Filed Under: crafts, hands-on homeschool, science Tagged With: crafts, dinosaurs, hands-on, science

Vinegar Chemistry

June 10, 2009 By Jimmie Quick 5 Comments

You all know the wonderful reaction you get when you mix baking soda with vinegar. Well we took it up a notch and created a full fledged experiment with it! Part of our chemistry curriculum is studying the scientific method and performing an experiment. Sprite wanted to test three types of vinegar and see which […]

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Grammar Game — Homemade

May 19, 2009 By Jimmie Quick 2 Comments

Some of you, like me, probably downloaded many of the free Mother’s Day gifts from CurrClick. I really liked the Silly Snail grammar game, but it only covered a few parts of speech. I suggested that Sprite make her own board game about the parts of speech. And here it is! The game involves answering […]

Filed Under: hands-on homeschool, language arts Tagged With: crafts, games, grammar, hands-on

Chemistry Equipment

April 11, 2009 By Jimmie Quick Leave a Comment

We recently started a new science curriculum — Noeo Science Chemistry.  To kick off our first experiments, I decided to buy some “fancy” lab equipment. So I did some investigation and found the name and address of a place that supposedly sold test tubes. The taxi stopped at an ancient looking drugstore selling Chinese medicine […]

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