Although February is a great time to learn about Black History, it should be studied in depth year round. So, I have created a new site "Black History Year Round Directory", in order to help achieve this goal.

Black History: Famous Athlete

Although she had polio as a child, did you know that Wilma Rudolph was the first American woman to win three gold medals in one Olympic?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Rudolph

Black History: Singers

Did you know that Nat King Cole was the first African American to host a network variety program, The Nat King Cole Show, which debuted on NBC television in 1956.

 Click On the Link Below
http://www.biography.com/articles/Nat-King-Cole-9253026

Black History: Learn about Black Inventors

Did you know that Garrett Morgan invented the Gas Mask, the
Stop Light, and the first human-hair straightener??
This site has a lot of information on Black Inventors.

CLICK ON LINK BELOW
http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/garrettmorgan.html

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.

Click on Link Below
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/

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.