Never Mess With a Little Boy's Food!

My four year old was looking at his science book on tornadoes, today. His uncle dropped by with food from Sonic (a fast food burger spot) and told him that his grandma didn't buy any food for him (he was teasing him). So, up went my 4 year old's hand and he told his uncle that a tornado storm would come and get him if he didn't hand over his popcorn chicken. His uncle had this shocked look on his face (priceless).

Martin Luther King Jr./Biography, study guide, timeline, resources, and more.

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We have "weaned" ourselves off of box curriculum for Math and Grammar. So far everything is going great. I was stuck in the mindset that my son would be missing something if we didn't choose to use a box curriculum for Math and Grammar. It seems like my 13 year old is learning and retaining more using online worksheets and "Key to" workbooks. I now realize that the boxed curriculum we were using was weighing us down like weeds. Now that our family has cut the "weeds" from our curriculum, my son is able to learn and grow.

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We are trying Key Press's "Key to" workbooks. My son is now asking to do his math. He loves the "Key to" workbooks. With Saxon he would always groan whenever it was time to do math. Now he can't wait to do some math problems.

We are putting together our presidents lapbooks.http://www.homeschoolshare.com/presidents_lapbook.php We also purchased a presidents book at the Scholastic Book Fair. I think we are going to have fun learning about each president.

Have you every had days when you just wanted to throw out the curriculum you bought and start from scratch? This is how I am feeling at this moment. I feel like tossing out my 13 year old's Saxon and Hake’s Grammar and Writing curriculums. Maybe I should just put my own curriculum together.

Total Solar Elipse

My sons had a great time quizzing each other on Astronomy.  My 13 year old son loves learning about the planets and the galaxy. He is also interested in the Solar (Sun) Eclipse and the Lunar (Moon) Eclipse. In a Solar  Eclipse, the Moon is blocking the Sun. The next Total Solar Eclipse (North America) will take place on August 21, 2017.

Astronomy Magazine

http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx

My family went on a field trip today. It was "Dollar Day" at the Dallas Zoo, and we had a great time! Hopefully the pictures come out so I can post them later.

My college son is coming home for Thanksgiving, so there is going to be a lot of cooking around here to feed just him. LOL

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