Thoughtful Thursdays October 30, 2008

Today's date is...October 30, 2008This week my greatest challenges have been...getting to bed before 1 AMThings I wanted to do this week but didn't get around to doing...my journal writing, lots of cleaning, ordering books for our history studies, holiday planningOur favorite thing we did in school this week was...read about Ben FranklinOur least favorite thing we did in school this week was...mathMy...

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Thoughtful Thursdays October 23, 2008

Today's date is...October 23, 2008This week my greatest challenges have been...keeping up on the house workThings I wanted to do this week but didn't get around to doing...pretty much all of my house work, cleaning the bathroom, sweeping and mopping, and cleaning up the porch.Our favorite thing we did in school this week was...Go to my son's first football practice (this wasn't for school, but it...

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Dinosaur Lapbook

Here is our Dino Lapbook. We got this for free off of homeschool Share. You can get this lapbook here.This lapbook is creation based. It has some really good reading for parents to prepare for this study. The website it directs you to has great reading about creation science. I learned a lot. We had a lot of fun doing this lapbook.In the middle is dinosaur report sheets (these come with the lapbook)....

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Making Yummy Homemade Butter

This week we made homemade butter from whipping cream. We are studying American History using Adventures in MFW, and we have been reading about the pilgrims. We learned that they had to make their own butter, so we made our own to see how it was done.This project was included in the curriculum.First we bought a carton of heavy whipping cream. We took two glass jars (one for each child) and poured...

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Thoughtful Thursdays October 16, 2008

Today's date is...October 16, 2008This week my greatest challenges have been...a lingering cold with a severe cough and sinus infectionThings I wanted to do this week but didn't get around to doing...go to the library, plan new science unit studyOur favorite thing we did in school this week was...make homemade butter from whipping creme. It was just amazing and it tasted wonderful!!Our least favorite...

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Thoughtful Thursdays October 9, 2008

Today's date is...October 10,2008 (I am a day late posting)This week my greatest challenges have been...taking care of sick kids and a sick meThings I wanted to do this week but didn't get around to doing...everything...housework, schoolwork, cookingOur favorite thing we did in school this week was...tasting sweet, fresh apple juice while being very sickOur least favorite thing we did in school this...

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Thoughtful Thursdays October 2, 2008

Today's date is...October 2,2008This week my greatest challenges have been...keeping the house cleanThings I wanted to do this week but didn't get around to doing...creating new notebooking pages for our travel journal, we are taking this journal with us when we go to new york so I have to get these finishedOur favorite thing we did in school this week was...Finishing up learning all the books of...

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