At Home With The Kids - Homeschool Blogger

When You're A Mom...

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:59:00 -0500

and the power goes out, what do you do? Grab a light saber, of course. I couldn't find a flashlight and our bathroom has no windows- and a mom's gotta go when a mom's gotta go. The blue light was kind of soothing, but I could have done without the saber sound effects. LOL!

Awesome Educational Website

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:29:00 -0500

I'll try to get this link added to my own website soon, but I changed computers quite awhile ago and my IT guy (i.e. my husband) hasn't loaded the website editing software yet. LOL!

Anyway, I'm not sure who shared this website with me, but it has a lot of really exciting links to educational games. These are very sophisticated, interactive games designed primarily for non-profit organizations such as museums and schools.

Check it out: Eduweb

Patriotic Six : Celebrating Our Troops

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:33:00 -0500

Sequential Spelling Now on DVD

Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:45:00 -0500

You can now get SS1 on DVD. This month the DVD is on sale and you can view samples of the first few lessons online at the AVKO website:

Sequential Spelling DVD

You can read my thoughts about Sequential Spelling here.

The Invention of the Apgar Test

Sat, 6 Jun 2009 17:18:00 -0500

The Apgar test and it's inventor:

How's Your Baby? Recalling the Apgar Score's Namesake

The More Things Change...

Sat, 6 Jun 2009 16:56:00 -0500

The topic of our society's ongoing decline recently came up, and while I agree that most folks are far from behaving in a Godly manner and we all could probably use an improvement of our standards, I don' think this is a recent development.

Our's societies' behavior hasn't changed as much as you think:

The Bolter- Book Review

(caution- some passages would get an "R")

The history of dress, note in the French Revolution and Empire periods, women's garments were often translucent- yeah, see through. Note the low cut of the dresses at Napoleon's coronation.

History of Dress

I wish I could find a better reference. When I studied this subject in college, we learned that during various periods of time different body parts were considered more or less attractive and dress was designed to feature the desired part of the body. There were periods when the bosom was completely revealed and other times when sheer fabrics were used. So while today's fashions are immodest- no argument there, I don't think the desire of humans to act and dress immodestly is so far changed from the past. It's just that there's not a lot of focus on modesty and moral practices in most history classes so we assume what we don't know about must not have existed.

Trigger Memory Systems Free Trial!

Wed, 3 Jun 2009 20:27:00 -0500

If you sign up for TMS's newletter you can get a free trial download of Times Tales plus a free Memory Trigger e-book.

Just follow the link below and scroll down to the "Subscribe to Newsletter" box. The links to your freebies will be sent in your e-mail confirmation.

Free Times Tales Sample Download

Several Diagnostic Tools for Reading Free at CurrClick

Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:11:00 -0500

Pennington Publishing is offering several of it's brief assessments free of charge this week.

Christian Book Distributors Has Taken Some New Markdowns

Wed, 27 May 2009 01:29:00 -0500

I was browsing the "WOW" deals today and noticed that there are several new items as well as substantial price decreases for a few books that have been on the "WOW' list for quite awhile. There are some nice (and educational) children's books that are available for $.99.

Fat Proof Your Kids was on sale, as was America the Beautiful by Katherine Lee Bates and Elizabethan England by Laura Marvel. The price on Charles Dickens and Friends has been reduced and Bibleman and Ribbets video sets have been substantially discounted.

Here's a link:

Christian Book Distributors

Microsoft Development Software and Free Kids' Courses

Tue, 26 May 2009 22:58:00 -0500

If you visit the Microsoft website, not only can you get a free version of their Visual Studios Express software but you can also download a complete set of programming courses for children including teaching materials and printables!

You know this means I'm going to have to learn more about my computer than I ever wanted to, all for the sake of education.