Knitting Socks Scrapbooking beaded bookmarks making earrings making chunky votives
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Kingdoms Dawn by Chuck Black
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Bible
Reread Heart of Wisdom by Robin Sampson
7 Habits of a Healthy Home by Bill Carmichael
Learning In Spite of Labels~ Practical Teaching Tips and a Christian
Perspective of Education by Joyce
Our Father Abraham~ Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R.
Wilson
A Family Guide to Biblical Holidays by Robin Sampson and Linda
Pierce
Good and Angry by Scott Turnasky and Joanne Miller
Having Mary Heart in a Martha World by Joanna Weaver
A Parents Guide to The Spiritual Mentoring of Teens ~Building Your
Childs Faith Through the Adolescent Years by Joe White , Jim Weidmann
Wild Days ( a book about language arts and nature journaling) by
Rackliffe
How to Create Your Own Unit Studies by Valerie Bendt
The Power of Parents words by H. Norman Wright
How to read the Bible for all it's worth by Gordon D Fee and Douglas
Stuart
Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining, and Bad Attitudes in You and your
kids by Scott Turnasky and Joanne Miller
You Can Teach Your Child Successfully Grades 4-8 by Ruth
Beechick
A Strong Start in Language
An Easy Start in Arithmetic
A Home Start In Reading by Ruth Beechick
Any Child Can Write by Harvey S. Wiener
" This is what the Lord says: "Stand at the crossroads and look: ask for
the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you
will find rest for your souls."
Jeremiah 6:16
May. 2, 2007~ Learning Math and having fun K-12 ~
I am ALWAYS on the look out for fun and interesting ways to learn. I love the Canadian company Box Cars and One Eyed Jacks. They have books with manipulative's they are sooooooooo cool ! For example 30 sided number die or 30 sided alphabet die. and other things too.
Today I took the concept of number war in their book and made it also work with regular dice. How to play is get two dice per person and bingo chips ( or any other counter you can think of ). Each person rolls their dice and add the two dice up and who ever has the highest number wins the chip. Decide if you are going to play in a set amount of time or how many rolls before counting up chips to see who won. This is a great way for younger students to practice adding up to twelve.
We had a fun time playing this today. It is also a good way to have activities for older children to spend time with younger children so mom can work one on one with other children. It's a balancing act sometimes
I'm all for fun math! The dice sound fun! I know for us, even just playing Monolopy or other board games with money have sure helped our girls.
Have a good evening my SSiC!!!
It sounds like a great idea. The girls are both at a place where they could play this game. I think you can play it "war" style with cards too. Instead of flipping up one card at a time you flip up two, add them together and see who has a higher total. If the total is the same, then you have "war" and so on...
Sounds fun!! Today my oldest made a board game for him and his little brother and was having the little one add before he moved. At first I was concerned, but he was being real patient with little one (ds4) and helped him when he needed it. Most of the time they "tied" until big brother got sick of playing it and then he declared himself the winner. :)
Oh that does sound fun. I think children (and adults as well) can learn much from playing games. I belong to yahoo email group called games for learning and have picked up a few ideas from there.
Have you considered sharing this with The Old Schoolhouse team? I appreciate any game that engages youngers/olders and frees mom up to work with another child.
I have more to comment but will do it on some of the other posts.
Blessings,
Linda
First , I am a daughter of the King almighty and a
a wife to my Handsome of 18 years. A mom of 4 on the go boys 16, 14, 10, and 8. I grew up in the states but married my Canadian sweetheart and moved up north.
We live in the southern part of British Columbia , Canada on our homestead. We have homeschooled our four boys from birth and plan to go the distance till all four graduate from our homeschool. I teach with a Charlotte Mason style. I love to craft! I am a beader, knitter, x-stitcher, quilter. We have been on a journey of being apart of building "The House that God Built". I have been recording our journey on my blog. Go to my links on The House That God Built and you will find it. I know God has a lot more instore for us and we just need to follow where our Lord takes us.
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-Mary
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For example 30 sided number die or 30 sided alphabet die. and other things too. 
First , I am a daughter of the King almighty and a
a wife to my Handsome of 18 years. A mom of 4 on the go boys 16, 14, 10, and 8. I grew up in the states but married my Canadian sweetheart and moved up north.
We live in the southern part of British Columbia , Canada on our homestead. We have homeschooled our four boys from birth and plan to go the distance till all four graduate from our homeschool. I teach with a Charlotte Mason style. I love to craft! I am a beader, knitter, x-stitcher, quilter. We have been on a journey of being apart of building "The House that God Built". I have been recording our journey on my blog. Go to my links on The House That God Built and you will find it. I know God has a lot more instore for us and we just need to follow where our Lord takes us.
This blog is the home of Show and Tell Friday's and Tightwad Tuesdays. I hope you decide to join in on the fun !
Blessings and ((HUGS))
In Him<><
-Mary
