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Welcome to my little corner of the beach in Southern California. I am married to one amazing man who loves me with a heart of Christ and who has blessed me to be a stay-at-home homeschool mom of three wonderful blessings. My heart is for homeschool ministry and helping others through encouragement. I've been homeschooling since the beginning and love it more and more every day.


I began my journey in homeschooling based on Bible scriptures found in Deuteronomy chapter 6:6-12 Homeschooling With Encouragement is dedicated to encourage the homeschool mom. I am the owner of a Yahoo group, monthly newsletter, two homeschool blogs, and the Weblink Education website.


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May. 8, 2008
Reaching The End Of 2nd Grade

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The Second Grade Project

As I shared last Monday, I like to take a look at our neighborhood kids school projects just to get ideas for my own children in their studies.  Unlike the 5th grade report my oldest is doing, I wasn't able to find many ideas for the second grade. This was a bummer because since we usually have a promotion night with our co-op group, I thought I better have something on display for both kiddos.  Then I remembered my blog friends...  and I got on the ball!  I started to thumb through all my favorite blogs for ideas and finally made a decision.  I decided upon a Lapbook activity.   If you have not looked into doing a lapbook, you should try one sometime.  There is usually a lapbook for every subject matter - great for the creative child. There is even a private Internet community for homeschool mom's to get help and directions for lapbooks.  The Internet is a great resource!!! 

Well, now that I decided upon a lapbook, I had to decide upon a subject.  So,  I took last weeks BIG event (my son being stung by a Bee) and decided to study Bees!  Isn't that just like a homeschool teacher!!!  I was able to find a pretty good lapbook study on Bees at Homeschoolshare.com.  It had all the information printed right there for me. No major research or creativeness left for me to do.   I just needed to push my print button! Easy, easy, easy!!!   You know, if you don't have a motivated learner...  try a lapbook.  They work wonderfully!!!  The kids learn without them knowing they are learning!!!  Great mom trick (shhh!).   Plus, it gets them to focus and enjoy the last few weeks of school. 

So, that is what we are working on for the end of second grade.  Of course, I have incorporated some "clay modeling" for this study, too.  After we are finished with our lapbook, my son will mold a sculpture of a Bee.  It will be a great addition to the lapbook!  I hope to have photos to share soon...

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Posted by eclecticeducation
I hope you will show pictures!!! :)
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May. 9, 2008 - Neat!

Posted by cricket
We studied bees this year in our science co-op. Do you know that the "killer bees' were created by man and an experimant in cross breeding? Hmmm, makes me wonder if we should leave some stuff alone for God!
Be blessed!
Terri Sue
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