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Lego WeDo Robotics

Monday, October 3, 2011

Have a new kit to start this week with. We’ll see how it goes.

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Know Thyself

Monday, December 14, 2009

It’s Monday, time for “official” education-ing to be happening. I’m getting “them” to do their Latin on Tues. & Thurs., and every day do their “Grammar” & “Spelling Wisdom” & “Creative Writing” & “Math-U-See” & “Catechism Q & A” (Westminster Shorter) … Just for starters, trying to get THESE things happening regularly. Hopefully I can [...]

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Learning HTML to build pages plus history

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

My 10-year-old daughter had expressed interest in knowing what the letters “H T M & L” stood for a few days ago. When she initially asked me I was so stretched and tired from a very long day and the letters sounded familiar but … hmmm. What was she asking about? I put her off, [...]

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Art products

Monday, June 1, 2009

I bought an art program, via my homeschool coop (which is online) which is an online program itself. There is a list of products to buy to use for the program, but going to Michaels produced only a couple of things, and not the brand names asked for, and going to Staples, Target and Office [...]

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First use of Artes Latinae I

Thursday, May 14, 2009

On Friday I did use the Artes Latinae Level I program through 108 Frames at least. It is a nice program. My eldest, Russell, worked on it also. On Saturday my second child, Victoria worked on it. I’m an adult and found it easy to understand and had to force myself to pay more attention [...]

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New Learning Tools for us

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

We ordered a Latin course in April. It arrived today, this afternoon! It’s Artes Latinae … which we got as part of the HomeSchooling Co-op (online) we are members of. Also we got an online Art course there, with instant access to it. It looks to be very interesting, adding both these programs to our [...]

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The reasons for this blog

Friday, May 1, 2009

I have been blogging since 2002, but have had a website since 1995. Our first child was born in 1996 and recently turned 13 years of age. We have three more children, ranging from 10 years down to nearly 2 years of age. We homeschool in a casual sort of way, and the idea of [...]

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