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• Fun Friday The Letter E: The Ear

  
  Melissas Homeschool Blog — Authority: 127
  Guess what? It is Fun Friday, at my Blogging For Fun Group. We are doing a A-Z meme, and we are up to the letter E. We have been studying the senses, in school, so this weeks was quite easy to choose. All this info posted today, will be a lesson plan for Health, next Thursday. If you homeschool, or just want your ...
  1 week ago

• Haunted House Books

  
  Bookmaking With Kids — Authority: 113
  A week before my after-school students started their Haunted House Books , we made a bunch ’o books from single sheets of paper—the basic version with no cutting, the “pants” cut, the center cut, the T cut. (You’ll find all these and more on this instruction sheet .) So when it came time to make the ...
  1 week ago

• History Of The Dairy Industry, and Where Does Milk Come From

  
  Melissas Homeschool Blog — Authority: 127
  Click the images to make them bigger, and printable. These came from our Social Studies workbook. They are for two different days, but we do them in one day. You will need to use the internet, for research. We are also still doing Pilgrims, and colonial days, and we got this weeks lesson from Instructor Web. It ...
  1 week ago

• Melting Ice Science Experiment

  
  Melissas Homeschool Blog — Authority: 127
  Since I couldnt find a cool video on the milk industry, I am posting this cool, and easy science experiment on melting ice. If you click the images, you can make them larger, and easier to read. Tomorrow I have a couple more fun things to share with you, on the milk industry, and pilgrim craft. Lesson Plans ...
  2 weeks ago

• Spicing Up Library Programs

  
  Bookmaking With Kids — Authority: 113
  While grown-ups in Redwood City read Chitra Divakaruni’s Mistress of Spices , the city’s current One Book, One Community selection, Susie and I conjured loosely related bookmaking projects for kids. The book is an adult read, but it sparked ideas aplenty for introducing kids to some things from India that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Subtracting With Zeros, Plant Life Cycle

  
  Melissas Homeschool Blog — Authority: 127
  Do your kids have a hard time subtracting numbers with zeros? DJ is having a bit of a hard time getting the concept. This short video should help him, and your child too. He explains it simple, and easy. Tomorrow for Science we are studying the plant life cycle. The short video below will help your young learners ...
  2 weeks ago

• First use of the phrase "4th grade hump?"

  
  kitchen table math, the sequel — Authority: 430
  In the earliest mention of the phrase that I have yet found, it is called instead the “4 th grade hump.” For a few years after that, it is called a hump, then it appears as the phrase “4 th grade slump.” If you search Google books for the two phrases for various time periods, you find a number of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Japanese Stab Bindings

  
  Bookmaking With Kids — Authority: 113
  It’s hard to believe that such elegant bindings* are easy enough for 2nd graders to sew, but it’s true. The trick, of course, is practice. But how do you get kids to practice … willingly? I’ve started to use sewing cards, with surprising success. Most kids have never seen such a thing, so they think ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tax On Sugared Drinks, The Five Senses

  
  Melissas Homeschool Blog — Authority: 127
  I am going to get on my soapbox very quickly, and then get right back off. As a nation, we are the fattest in the world. We have high obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates. We eat portion sizes, including sugar, like 6 times or more, over what is recommended. There is all this talk about the government ...
  2 weeks ago

• Animals Of The Past: Cats

  
  Melissas Homeschool Blog — Authority: 127
  We finished our experiment on digestion, from last week, and what did we find? The meat barely digested at all. So meat takes a long time for the body to break it down, and digest it. Tonight we will be doing the same experiment, with two slices of apples. Follow the same procedure, and in a week see what the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Star Spangled Day

  
  The Seasons Of Our Life — Authority: 98
  Sydneys 4th Grade class, this was Star Spangled Day...they celebrated the Flag. It was a fun day! Syd and her friend Sarah eating a picnic lunch.
  3 weeks ago

• PTSD for 9-Year-Olds? Two-Time Newbery Medal Finalist Jacqueline Woodson Deals With the Consquences of War in ‘Peace, Locomotion’

  
  One-Minute Book Reviews — Authority: 474
  A 12-year-old orphan sees the effects of war when a member of his foster family returns without a leg Peace, Locomotion. By Jacqueline Woodson. Putnam, 136 pp., $15.99. Ages 9–12 (see further discussion below). By Janice Harayda Jacqueline Woodson is a spare and thoughtful writer – a bit too spare and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chinese New Year, Place Value

  
  Melissas Homeschool Blog — Authority: 127
  Tomorrow for history class we are doing Betsy Ross, and Chinese New Year. Watch the cute story below explaining Chinese New Year. I found the Betsy Ross lesson plan, at Instructor Web , which I just signed up for yesterday. Next week, we will be making American Flags, to complete the Betsy Ross lesson. Do your ...
  4 weeks ago

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