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Gardening with Dr. D

It’s amazing the kind of help you can get when you tell your friends and family that you’re homeschooling your kids.  Dr. D attends our church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).  I went to visit her one day and told her I was homeschooling my kids.  As a retired school teacher with a Masters in Biology and PhD in Business Administration & Social Change, Dr. D offered her help.  She has been teaching the kids each week about how to grow a garden.

So far, my children have learned how to plant seeds, water plants, apply fertilizer, thin out plants, identify weeds and remove them, and thank God for helping the plants to grow.

Last week we harvested mustard greens, turnip greens, bok choy and green onions.  I made a wonderful pot of stew with the mustard greens.

Can’t wait to learn more from this awesome teacher!  Thanks Dr. D!!! 😀

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Free Color ‘n Cut Projects from Westcott

I’m always looking for free printables for my kids to work on during homeschool and downtime.  I found some free Color ‘n Cut Projects from Westcott, an Australia scissor company. 

These projects are great for early learning, fine motor and scissor skills.  The drawback is it sucks up a lot of ink.  I printed mine in grayscale and will have the kids work on them today.

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A Fun Reading Website for Kids

A friend at church told me about this fun website for kids to help them learn to read.  I had my kids try it out and they love it!!  Best of all, it’s FREE.  It’s called Starfall.com and has interactive games for children ages 3-7.  I added it to my list of fun websites for kids  HERE.

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1st Quarter Evaluation for Homeschool

I just had my son Ephraim evaluated by his aunt, who is a certified teacher, on Saturday.  The whole thing took about 2 hours.  I printed off the Florida State Standards and Benchmarks for Kindergarten and wanted her to see where he was at.

It seems as though I did a good job teaching him basic level things like reading, writing, addition and subtraction.  But now I need to take the lessons to the next level and start teaching my son how to use the information in a more in depth way – “critical thinking”.

Here I was thinking that my son was almost ready for 1st grade when in actuality he doesn’t even understand what “beneath” means.  He also has a hard time following two and three step instructions and applying addition and subtraction to life situations.

I bought $80 more of curriculum to help me with this task.  I found a new website called www.criticalthinking.com

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