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Feb. 22, 2006 -
Feb. 20, 2006 - ok so no schooling in a while
I have been sick and what not. I have
been sick a lot. weird respitory stuff. So I try to
take it easy and nip it in the bud when it starts coming on because I
don't want to miss work.
So I have been reading. And intend to read to my kids. Come
on, i need to do that even if i am not homeschooling right. . . . SO
tonight we will pick up on the Silver Chair. we stopped this
summer. just lost steam . . .
Me? Ihave been reading Charlotte Mason stuff. I do love her
so . . . I have been convicted of my need to be a better
homemaker. how can my children grow and learn in this
chaos?
hence my purge of books.
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Feb. 18, 2006 - Ok heres my ISO list
A Child History of The World (older edition) This is what I am seling stuff to get . . .
Little House books in paper back:
By The Shores Of Silver Lake
Little town on the Prarie
These happy Golden Years
Winnie the Pooh by tAA Milne abd Ernest H Shepard (Winnie The Pooh, House at Pooh Corner, When we Were Young, Now We are Six)
Frog and Toad easy readers by Arnold Lobel
Murice Sendak
Where the Wild Things Are
Into the Night Kitchen
The King and Six Friends by jay Williams
Jesse Bear What Will You Wear
A House is a House for Me by mary Anne Hoberman
how to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
One Morning in Maine Robert mcCloskey
Young people Story of the World by ???
Astronomy by H. A. Ray * must have dust jacket
"we were there books" not sure who writes or publishes these but
I think they are older. She said they were nice alternative
to American Girl books.
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Feb. 18, 2006 - tons of stuff for sale - books, toys and misc
Ok thought this would be a good
central location for me to link all my homeschooling friends, mommy
friends, etc etc to as I atempt to weed stuff out before moving
on to e-bay or opther sights where this stuff may sell better.
the rules of bnuying from Sandra - all shipping, packaging,
handling, special blessing and paypal fees are included in the
price. all books will be sent book rate unless you really want to
pay extra. All books are real books used by real kids and may
have been chewed in, marked in etc. I am not going to point out
any particular flaws because like I said . . .My pay pal address is
avaalexandria@yahoo.com . feel free to make donations even if you
don't want any books. books are sold in sets, no i will not break
up a set, won't mix and match etc. They are cheap. buy them
all. you know you want them. 
umm. . . . . . . . .not all books are in the pictures. As I was
taking the pictures I kept remembering other places my chidlren stash
them. I think that is everything.
so without further adu . .ado . . .chit chat
Books:
 
Science Set, 8 books, includes
* No Sweat Science Project - Hair
* Keeping Your Body Alive and Well
* Science Magic, Experiments for young children
* Totally Amazing Mummies
*Usborne Science with Plants
* The moon Book
* Tottaly Gross Chemistry
* The World and Its wonders
$10
 Internet for kids $3
 Brownie Leader Handbook $3
Ok
on the following grown up books I will combine shipping if you buy more
than one. If you want to buy more than one take $.50 off each
book.
 Feng Shui $3
 Affair of the Mind by Laurie Hall $6 new!
Shiloh Autumn by Bodie Thoene $4
Power of a Praying Nation by Stormie Omartion $3
Confessions of an Organized Homemaker by Denise Schofield $3
 beloved by Toni morrison $3
Baby Name Book - A new Generation (particularly good picks are circled ;-) ) $3
 Snow Falling On Cedars by David Guterson $3
Garmmer and Writing for High School and College Students, 3 books
* Harbrace College Handbook
* the resourceful Writer
*MLA handbok for Writers of Reasearch Papers
$25
The Messege Bible, hard bck $10
 Test Prep Plus $4 New!!
 Miquon Lab Sheet Annotations $7 (its a big book. even if you aren't using miquon it is a greta ersource for teaching math)
Math Fun Set
* Magnadoodle addition and subtraction cards
* M&M Math - dominoes, counting chips and two different kinds of flash cards
* Flash magioc flash cards. Addition and multiplication card and magic reader. Leap Frog made this.
$5
and yeah, there will be mroe but my kids have got to eat
woot woot MORE!!
 Wooden blocks. Around 30 give or take. . . $5
 Old School Seseme Street stacking letters. these are so cool!! I think there are 1 or 2 missing. $6
 Little Tykes busy Box $10
Kid Movies. $3 each or $10 for the whole set
* Little People at the garage
* Little People Discovering Animals
* Disney Very mery Christmas Songs
* Baby Einstien - Baby Van Gogh
* Madeline's Sing Along
 Cool baby toys.
the retro chime ball is so cool. the stacker has lost its ability
to make obnoxious noise and light up but I would consider that a
bonus. $10 (they are heavy but if you get these and the busy box you can take of $4)
 Ton of toys
* scented lovey blanket that plays you are my sunshine
*scented Pat the Bunny hang toy, ties with a ribbon, can go on a wall, crib, carseat whatever. very cute.
* 2 pink elephants, one is a Carters squichy one with chimes
* lots of mini Sassy, little tykes, Fisher Price toys. great for teh diaper bag.
Boyd bears mobile. mising box and clamp but could easily be
dangled from the ceiling or you can just take the cute bears of to play
with.
* sensory big - texture, sound, squeeks and it links on to stuff.
* 4 Barbie kely dolls.
* soft chime ball
* and more
$8
Toddler Girl Shoes
* Black Mary Janes (so cute) 5 1/2
* Sage gap tennies 6
* 4 pairs of toddler girl socks.
$5
 Really Cool Guatemalan bag Big compart, 3 pockets in front and one in back. very very cool. Fair trade $5
 
Denim Block Quilt, 34x44 tied, finished with rainbow bias tape and 100% cotton rainbow fabric on the back, fun functional pocket details. $18
Doll Diapers,
These fit about an 18" doll give or take. Elastic at the back and legs
for the perfect fit to prevent leaks ;-) and velcro closures so that
even the tiniest hands can be proficient little mommies and
daddies. made with all the details of a real diaper.
 This set includes 2 toille diapers and matching blanket $7.50 for the set
$5.00 for the set
 NWT gap Kids 10Plus skort. $5
ok here is a list of stuff I would be willing to trade for.
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Feb. 18, 2006 - oh for the love of pete
can someone tell me how to add
friends. I feel like a dork. I am sure there is a button or
clicky thing somewhere . .. is there an easy way to add friends.
i have about 20 people I want to add, I am not really as
friendless as I appear. . .but I juct cannot fighure it out . . .
. .
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Feb. 3, 2006 - to the Anonymous comment question
we started with Kumon stuff. thier letter workbooks
and have moved onto rhyming words. These are such nice workbooks.
Y ou can get them at barnes nd Nobles but it lokos like Amazon has a
better selection.
At the same time we used Explode the Code Primers and now she is about half way through book one.
We also do Starfall on the computer as well as thier print off sheets. You can order thier stuff for so cheap.
It all works together really nicely. For books she is reading Bob Books
it sounds like a lot but as you can see consistancy isn't my
strong point. if we had been going mor consistantl;y she would
have been reading early fall. Shame on me.
Fortunatey she is pushy.
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Feb. 3, 2006 - wipe those tears away
Feb. 1, 2006 - even sadder yet
it isn't as bad as it looks. I have been educating my
children just not updating. we are getting ina very nice post
holiday groove actually
the important news today is :
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Dec. 7, 2005 - Oh look how sad
It has been a month since I did an entry. i wish I could say we were diligently plugging away but we are not.
Well with the exception of the last 4 dayas. weh ave done
everything for 4 days in a row. I have ben working so much
though. I need to get some stuff up on e-bay. I need to get
moving. But my computer is doing something weird relating to
pictures. . .
Ok so,
we have been dilengtly doing math, handwriting and spelling with
madeline. She needs to practice piano desperately. We
busted out her sewing maching the other day. She was
stoked. after Christmas i am goingot have her start a quilt.
Lily is reading!!!! how exciting is that. She has a long
way to go to even steady decoding but she is slowly growing. She
is also kicking butt at math. She is doing handwriting. I
just don't care enough about handwriting. her is atrocious as
well as her sisters.
Ava is sounding out words along with Lily. I shoudl make more
effor to actualy include her. She might pick up reading opretty
quickly this way.
I shall update more frequently. . . . i shall update mroe frequently . . . . I shall update more frequently . . . .
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Nov. 4, 2005 - another good week
we did pretty good this week. we are
taking today off because I went to bed feeling liek crap and woke up
feeling worse. some weirdness in my shoulder which made it
impossible to move my arm, hands and shoulder. It dissapeared as
mysteriously as it appeared. My head and neck still hurt but I
think I must have slept funny on it.
So last week in school.
madleline did math every day and spelling most days. She knew her memory verse.
Lilyka started new math. the book is supposed ot last us 36
weeks. doubtful. she did the first 4 weeks in 2 days. this
is one slow program. We have also been reviewing letters and
working on fine motor/writing skills.
Me? I have discovered Charlotte Mason. How have I never
looked into thi?. it is so me. I love her. she is
brilliant. and yet it is all such common sense. I am really
excited about the direction our education, or rather our lives, are
taking.
blessings,
S.
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Oct. 26, 2005 - back on track :-)
Oct. 24, 2005 - totally crappin' out
Ok so I have ben les than diligent about
homeschooling. I have ben working on a huge sewing project and
just want to get it done all at once and be . . well . . done with it.
Madeline has been doing piano lessons and occaisionally
practicve. she went to Montana and had a great time with her
dad. tons of learngin there thanks tyou very much. since
she got home we have done math a couple of times and I think spelling
and writing.
Lilyka is determined to learn to read despite my laziness and insists
on doing her explode the code books evry now and then. poor
girl. She is darn near six. we need to g et crackin.
i know if I was just consistant she would have it in no time.
and yes, I love homestar runner. especially teen girl squad 
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Oct. 1, 2005 - yesterday and today
we did school light yesterday.
Madeline did a page of math, Lilyka did a few pages from explode the
code. I htink she knows more than she is letting on. they
went to a coral (sp) concert that was in russian (thanks
grandma). We went to a friends house and did some investigative
work and discovered the problem with herplants was deer (because of the
height of the damage and the enourmous pile of deer poo) Huh,
maybe we did more than I thought.
today they watched hours of cartoons (that swear they are educational) and are outside playing. hey, its saturday.
and soemone read this blog. exciting.
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Sep. 29, 2005 - I guess I don't need to point out
That this makes four days in a row.
Madeline:
Math - did her two pages. more practice with borrowing and
carrying. she transitiond from spell it out notation for ex. 5
(10) + 5 = 55 to just plain 55. So still plugging away.
handwriting/Bible - did her daily lesson and whined about it. also practiced a verse for wednesday night stuff.
spelling did two lessons. and whined about it.
Lilyka
did 4 pages in explode the code. did them madeline. that was nice.
did a page of leters and we played a game to review the sounds.
we went to the library today and checked out a bunch of books. we rode the bus. what a nightmare.
and I still have a raging headache
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Sep. 28, 2005 - 3 days in a row baby
Seriously I think doing this blog is shaming me into getting my act together. nothing like a good old fashioned shaming.
Madeline:
Math - did a page of borrowing
and carrying practice. we bought her 3rd grade books last night.
She should move through these pretty fast too. Its hard to know
exactly where she is in math since miquon goes in such a differnt
order. it makes switching over difficult. Oh and today was
painful. She was way distracted.
Spelling - did lessons one and
two for unit 2. come on its a 1st grade speller. I'm not
pushing. she ought to know all this by now. but again we
didn't use a cirriculum for this so now we are sowing the seeds of
disoganization.
Piano - practiced for some
time. did whole lesson. we played together. She
taught me some stuff. it was fun. The program she is using
doesn't move very fast by way of preformance skills but it focuses on
reading mucis which is nice. that is a skill I never even came close to
mastering. She already knows many of the codes and symbols as
well as doing a pretty good job of sight reading. Out of six kids
her age taking lesons only one is using a different program and tehy
all have different teachers. that is reassuring. The one
girl plays better but I don't think she can read music.
Everything is memorized.
Computer - haven't done it yet
but she wil play the geographty game again for a while. weh ave
decided to spend teh whole week on one CD Rom and then switch to
another one.
Bible/Handwriting-
Started unit 3 in her cursive book (each unit takes a week when done
regularly, each lesson is fairly short. althoguh like everything
today she managed to make it painfully drawn out.
Lilyka -
Lilyka did a page of numbers and finished her number recognition
book. yay Lik! So that was number 1-30. I think the
next one is 1-120. kinda a jump.
She did some in her explode the code book. we bought the new book
last night. This afternon madeline insiste we already had that
book. she was right. she cold have said something last
night. oh well. I wonder if the 1/2 books are really
nessecary. probably wouldn't hurt.
She also did some other phonics/letter recognition stuff.
on the computer she id a jumpstart CD and worked on counting and
patterns. She is realy beyond that CD but our hard drive keeps
crashing and she just wants to finish LOL
Ava- made pest of herself. aahhhh, teh anti-helper lives.
tonight the bigs are going to church while Ava and I run some
errends. Madelienw ill be in Chior this year and I am not sure
hat tehy do for wednesday night programs but it is only an hour.
yeehaw!
in the mean time I have been washing and bundeling herbs for our neighbors and drying some more for friends and for me.
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Sep. 27, 2005 - dun dudda dun
Sep. 26, 2005 - today
And so our journey of record keeping begins.
by searching for the right font
just a minute
almost got it
not just yetgetting closer
that was not it ansd neither is this
whats this one. pretty much the same as all the others
are we back where we bagan . . yes we are . . .
ahem, OK lets begin class . . . .
Madeline:
math
- three pages. she is currently in level 2 of making math
meaningful. We had to make a switch as miquon was not clicking
with her brain waves and required far too many of mine. So today
she did practice with borrowing and carrying. I think we will be
doing more tomarrow and more the next day and more the next day . . . .
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Spelling:
took her first spelling test. missed two out of twenty. not too
shabby. for first grade spelling. actuyally one she just
forgot to finish writing. 
(wow, ten gazzion smilies and no eye roll. that is
unfortunate). So now that we are getting serious about this
homeschool biz we should cruise through that spelling book. it is
below her level but I wanted her to have a strong foundation. She
bombed speling on her standardized test. we have been overlooking
it. oops
handwriting/Bible
- yes they actually are together. SO she finished up the second
unit. I need to make her memorize the verses. maybe we
won't move on until she memorizes it.
Computer - did a geography game and updated her xanga site
Piano - practiced for about 10 minutes. Not going to turn her into a musician but it was a good exercise in disipline.
Lilyka -
today silly lily did some of her explode the code book. some
other letter recognition and sound connection stuff. She erad
from jen the Henn and Pat the Cat. I htink once she can remember
the letter sounds she is absolutely going to blast off. Tomarrow
we need to just start reviewing and reviewing leter sounds until she
has it. I am very negligent in this sort of creative playful
learning. 
So then we sat and read about 5 books and then she listened to a couple
on tape. Computer time was spent playing a phonics
game. I need to find some more things for that girl to do on the
computer. sounds like a good idea for papa for christmas.
Ava :made
a lot of noise an distractions. played with trains and finger
puppets. read books with us, played with her leap pad and
listened to books on tape. I htink the books on tape are an
excellent thing for her to do while the otehrs are studying. We
use headphones.  (I like this guy)
Me:
i started this thing. And while madeline was wading through math
I finished sewing the cusions for our window seat. they don't
even come close to fitting but they hide the ugly wood. Nest is the
book shelf curtains. To hide all teh alluring books from
visiting children and the baby. I know, why would I hide
boks. i honestly don't care if they read one but they pull every
singel one off the shelf and since we moved our school stuf finto half
of the playroom I certainly don't want them messing with my
system. off to tuck in munchkins and read a god book. or do some
laundry and dishes. or something.
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and today she drew smilie faces and played at seseme street workshop
making lemonade with Elmo and Zoe.She is getting pretty good with a
mouse.
Ava's sticker
) We also read a word bird book. I do not se what the big
deal with those are. they kinda suck. I think we will start
with the bob books tomarrow. maybe just some sound flash
cards. I hate to start with Bob books too early because
they are so easily memorized. 100 easy lessons keeps calling to
me. . . . She also did some pages in her sound books and explode the
code. we discoverd erasable colord pencils meet both of our
requirements for writing utensil (her -color and style, me-
correctable). We found her math book but the only lesson she got
from that was "we don't throw books. please put it where it goes
if you don't work on it.
