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Precious Moments: A Superduper Week! - We are a family who likes to be busy and when we are busy all is well in our camp. And this week has been super busy which has lead to a super week! This...
Mt. Hope Chronicles

Book Love [A Favorites List] - [image: Top 10 Fiction Favorites @ Mt Hope Chronicles] Choosing a top 10 list of fiction favorites is an exercise in crazy-making. But I adore lists. I ad...
Journey Into Unschooling

Spring 2015 :: Week 5 - Homeschoolers do school in pjs. They also do magic in pjs. It's a perk. This week, we escaped the big storm back home by taking LS to LA for the day. It ...
mamascout

a new start, generosity + a giveaway - I witnessed something amazing this last week. Something that I never asked for or knowingly encouraged. A generosity from the Mama Scout tribe that blew ...
The Artful Parent

Personalized Fairy Books for Fairy Loving Kids - My kids are both big into fairies—seemingly always have been. What is it about magical creatures? Especially fairies? I don’t remember being very aware of,...
Frontier Dreams

Perspective - [image: evening walk][image: evening walk][image: evening walk][image: evening walk][image: evening walk][image: evening walk][image: evening walk][image: ...
Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational

The Ball that Defied Gravity ... or Did it? (Science Experiment) - Even very young kids understand gravity. So when a science experiment seems to defy it, they're mega impressed. This fun activity wowed my boys. Okay, ...
All Things Beautiful

123...I Can Paint! Complementary Colors and a Busy and Bright City Street - *Pairs of colors, like blue and orange, green and red or purple and yellow are called complementary colors. They look extra bright and busy beside each ot...
The Magic Onions

My Stance on the Vaccine Debate. - I have stayed out of the vaccine debate, until now… no longer! This issue is too important not to address. No matter how you feel about vaccinations, givin...
Ordinary Life Magic

As Soon As The Ground Can Be Worked - the first Spring trip to Home Depot (seed-starting soil and a new shovel--where on earth is ours?! did we leave it at the geode beds???) seeds video ...
Almost Unschoolers

Engineering for Children - Compression, Tension and Toilet Paper Tubes - The children have been doing a lot of building with the empty toilet paper tubes we have out this week. Watching them experiment with different towers a...
Teaching from a Tackle Box

How Many Beads Do I Need for Montessori Math? - For those who are using Montessori Math materials in the home I have condensed the Montessori bead materials into SIX basic sets of materials: Teachin...
The Scientific Mom

It's the Grand Opening of the Halle Heart Children's Museum! - The American Heart Association's Halle Heart Children's Museum is hosting its Grand Opening this weekend in Tempe! Until recently, the Halle Heart Museum...
E is for Explore!

Seed Engineers - Students are challenged to construct a device to make a popcorn kernel disperse! They invented contraptions that helped a kernel burst (explode), travel ...
For Love of Education

Learning to Write Essays Without Calling it an Essay - Years ago when I was a high school teacher, I discovered that children have a natural aversion to writing essays. They seem to freeze in fright with the me...
Navigating By Joy

Hands-on science: Is light a wave or a particle? - Scientists argued for two hundred years about whether light was a shower of tiny particles or a series of waves. Then just as the debate was settled, Ein...
a little crafty nest

one special moment - Joining in for the Friday moment with Amanda. A moment from the week that I want to linger over and savour. Dreams of horses and riding lessons abound in my ...
The Helpful Garden

Updates on Andon - And a Go Fund Me Account - Those who have been following this blog know that our youngest son, Andon, was recently diagnosed with and started treatment for leukemia. Once we left th...
My Montessori Journey

- I'm now on Twitter. I'd love to have you follow me over there!!! https://twitter.com/mslauralambert
Josh, Chandra, and Izzy: At Home and Abroad

Poetry, poetry, poetry! - As I've mentioned, we're continuing with poetry memorization this year (and hopefully for as long as we homeschool). It was a built-in part of the languag...
Home Chemistry

Interested in Homeschooling? - Find out how to homeschool chemistry -- and any other subject. Check out my articles on the About.com Homeschooling page!
Homeschooling Waldorf

Drawing Maps - My children say that I have an obsession with maps. I don’t know if that’s true, but I do think that we learn a lot about geography and history when we d...
We Don't Need No Education

A New Homeschool Blog - We have started another homeschool blog. This new directions is exciting to me for many reasons. The most important reason is because the kids are contrib...
LaPaz Home Learning

If you give a kid a piece of amber… - If you give a kid a piece of amber, she is going to want her microscope to look for insects. And then she is going to have a million questions… Topics of d...
Satori Smiles

Grade 3 2013-2014 Curriculum - Since moving to our new rental home, we still have a learning loft area where Satori and I can work together, but the wall was too small to fit our huge ...
The Chronicle of the Earth

More Resources - Make sure you check out Brenda's latest resources for SOTW on her blog too! She's been amazing at picking up the lapbook project!
Buntmond

That’s All Folks! :) - Liebe Blogleserinnen und -leser, hier endet unser Homeschooling-Abenteuer und dies ist auch der letzte Eintrag in diesem Blog. Vielen herzlichen Dank an al...
On The Shelf: A Picture Diary of Montessori Work In Our Classroom

Some springtime activities - Volcano work with baking soda and vinegar. Watch it erupt! Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar cutting strips! Print making with styrofoam. Farm...
Counting Coconuts

Where Am I? - Hi there! As you can see, I haven't been blogging regularly for several months now. This is a result of a sudden blog-break I had to take last fall, an...
Blog, She Wrote

Blog, She Wrote has moved! - Blog, She Wrote has moved to a new location: blogshewrote.org
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Spring Break Martial Arts Camps 2012 - Week 1: April 2-6 (Edmonds School District Spring Break) Week 2: April 16-20 (Northshore School District Spring Break) Gung Fu for Christ and Refuge Church...
5 Orange Potatoes

handmade ornament- little baubles - Our friend Sam designed this little bauble.....READ MORE.

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julie: Indiana, United States; The lucky momma of two little blonde daddy clones, we spend our days eating cheese cubes and oranges, reading books about dinosaurs, pestering the dadda, and making junk out of other junk.

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You have my permission to use one photo and one text quote of up to two sentences in your own blog post, as long as you:

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2) do not use a photo that contains my child's face without emailing me for permission at jufinn at indiana dot edu. Please include a link to your blog so I can give it a lookover, and please allow up to two days for my response.

Occasionally, I may post a photo of a child who is not my own. You do not have my permission to re-post any photo that contains an image of a child not my own, whether or not the child's face can be seen.

Occasionally, I may post a photo of my child not completely dressed. You do not have my permission to re-post any photo that contains an image of my child when she is not completely dressed.

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Big Hero 6 Printable for Family Movie Night - This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions, work and hair brained crazy ideas are mine alone. #BigHero6Movi...
Serving Pink Lemonade

Simple and Healthy Dr. Seuss Lunch - Dr. Seuss and his books are much loved in our home. We've made it a family tradition to celebrate his birthday on March 2nd each year. I find celebratin...
SouleMama

a warm and wintry day - Yesterday, the sun appeared, the wind quieted down and the temperature reached an amazing thirty degrees fahrenheit. Thirty degrees! We took full advantage -...
punk projects

DIY Decor Tape Map Art - Hey guys, Today I wanted to share with you the tutorial of how I made this fun, mixed media wall art featuring Hazel and Ruby's new DIY Decor Tape. If you ...
scrumdilly-do!

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Family Chic

My Way Back - Reconnecting with my creative side in a new way.
Twig and Toadstool

Rainbow Ice Totems and Sculptures for CBC Parents - Head on over to CBC Parents to see our latest post on how to make Rainbow Ice Totems and Sculptures! We've been stuck in a deep freeze for weeks now and t...
betz white

QuiltCon 2015: My Austin Adventure! - I returned home from Austin late Monday and I’m still settling in. Quiltcon was an amazing, exciting, organized, super fun event that I can highly recomm...
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Book Binding Tutorial with Embroidered Cover - I love embroidering into paper. It is simple, yet it transforms a plain piece of paperboard into something strikingly lovely. Apparently, I got bitten by...
Zaaberry

Trying to Beat the Winter Blues - I'm chalking my lack of blogging here lately to a bad case of the winter blues. I'm a snow lover and usually winter doesn't bother me much. It's the co...
Project Run and Play

February's Challenge: Susan's Mademoiselle Tee - It is our last week in February and that means that it is time to vote! Our special guest Susan from Living with Punks has narrowed the field down to he...
A Little Hut - Patricia Zapata

bits, pieces and patience - [image: Hummingbird] I'm the type of crazy person that stays up until crazy hours of the night (err... morning) to make something like this. All I have to ...
angry chicken

star wars and my girls - My girls have not seen any of the Star Wars films. I saw the first trilogy uncountable times growing up. We saw the first movie 3 times in the theater. I was...
The Crafty Crow

Animated Classic Children's Books On Netflix Streaming - What have you been streaming on Netflix this month? Psych, Friends, and Malcolm In The Middle keep me smiling while I'm working and I've got the 27th of th...
Make It and Love It

A new adventure… - [image: we are moving]Let me tell you a little story — (buckle up) When Steve and I were married in August of 2005, I was nearly finished with my degree ...
Running With Scissors

Wall Mounted Potting Bench - My kitchen doesn't get enough sunlight to keep fresh herbs in the kitchen, so I built this simple bench with a concealed plant light to grow everything I...
elsie marley

the creativity club: copy - Welcome to the 2nd challenge of the year for The Creativity Club! I think all creative processes start with copying. We copy people we admire, famous artis...
Chalk in My Pocket

Valentine's Morning: Strawberry Heart Surprise Pancakes - *It's Valentine's Day, but these pancakes are a sweet surprise for any morning! * Pour your batter onto griddle and press a strawberry into the "raw" side ...
Blue Dinosaurs Blog

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we wilsons

Lego House on the Banks of Plum Creek - We've been spending our evenings reading the Little House series off and on for awhile now. I've really enjoyed family reading time now that we've finally ...
the pink couch

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The Mother Huddle

Thanksgiving: 9 Ways to Familyness - Let the stress melt away Thanksgiving, or the holidays in general, can get pretty crazy and stressful. I love it when everyone pitches in to help and each...
SwirlyThoughts

52 books completed for 2014 - I have reached my 52 books target for 2014 with a few weeks still to go. You can see all the books I have read so far on my Pinterest board. I crossed the...
Mama Mel Loves...

Blogger's Quilt Festival Entry! - Hi, all! It's been a while since I've posted anything. I don't get much computer time anymore when I'm so busy with the kiddos. But I really wanted to enter ...
THE SEWING DORK

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Pink and Green Mama

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Mom Inc Daily

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Filth Wizardry

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Kelli Nina Perkins

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giddygiddy

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