Phonics and Spelling with FUN

If you’ve reached the end of your school year, and you’re re-evaluating your curriculum, join the club. :) I am always in a state of evaluation. What works, what isn’t working, and what might just help… all are questions we ask ourselves, whether we are home schooling moms or moms of kids who are just out for the summer.

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Free Treadwell Readers

These aren’t your everyday readers! She uses familiar (to us) folktales, nursery rhymes, and fairy tales to get kids reading and enjoying it! I formatted these in a very simple font, in large type, and all of the original pictures are included! Enjoy!!

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McGuffey Readers

As with all my other discoveries in the past two months, McGuffey’s took me completely by surprise. Since I have been researching curriculum, reading about Charlotte Mason, and spending time at Old Fashioned Education and Ambleside Online, I have come into contact with MANY old schoolbooks via the Internet. I happened upon the

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Summer days in fall

This morning the news said that it will be 80 degrees today! September 29, and 80 degrees? Well, they were pretty right on, as I’m wearing capris and a t-shirt, flipflops, and I have all the windows open. School this morning went well, although we aren’t done, we did stop for the weather. D1 got

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School Craziness

Funny how when I think I have it all together, “I forget where I put it”, as the saying goes. D1 and I have begun math and language arts. I had ideas for history but haven’t quite pulled it together to begin yet. I have History Pockets: Ancient Civilizations, which will be fun

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