Tag: homeschooling

Spontaneous Education

What happens when you give boys pattern blocks with no direction? In fact what happens when you give a boy pattern blocks in a bucket on an accessible shelf?

They create the sun.

They make an Asteroid Belt complete with a dwarf planet.

And they find a way for Saturn to have rings.

Behold the Solar System

I’m not sure who started this project. I walked in towards the end of the solar system. Jr. added a moon to Earth. But it was Lil’B who made Saturn. We all still include poor demoted Pluto way out on the end. I grabbed a few more pictures which I’ll try to upload to flickr later. One of them has Lil’B's “shapeships” which are exploring the solar system though to be honest it sounded more like they were waging a space battle!

Author name:: Bobbi
Publish date:: April 15th, 2009

“Garage Sale”

I’m going to give this a go instead of just unloading this stuff at my local thrift or books swap sites. I’m clearing off some of my shelf space and have the following up for grabs:

The Homeschooling Book of Answers by Linda Dobson (88 Question Edition)
Good condition but there is some highlighting (not by me).
$8.oo ppd

Top 100 Picks for Homeschool Curriculum by Cathy Duffy
Excellent condition
$12.00 ppd

The Anti-Coloring Book Circus and The Anti-Coloring Book Masterpieces (2 books)
Great condition no markings. Back cover crease on Masterpieces book
$8.00 ppd

Thematic Units from Teacher Created Materials:

My World (Primary)
Medieval Times (Challenging)
Weather (Primary)
$5.00 ppd each or $10 for all three

Evan Moor Daily Word Problem Grade 1
Excellent Condition
$7.00 ppd

Evan Moor Math and Money Management (Intermediate & Up)
Excellent Condition
$5.00 ppd

Story of the World Vol. 1 (not revised edition) text/book
Excellent Condition
$5.00 ppd

Story of the World Vol.1 Activity Guide/Pages (not revised edition)
Good condition. But I did remove the pages from the binding and place in a binder. Will ship w/o binder.
$22.00 ppd

Story of the World Vol 2. (revised edition) text/book
Excellent Condition
5.00 ppd

Real Science for Kids Chemistry Pre-Level I Text, Teacher’s Guide
Good Condition
$30.00 ppd

PPD (Postage Paid so the “$” includes the shipping)

I’ll ship Media Mail. Shipping via Media Mail is running me about $2.50 for most of my packages.

I’ll trade too if you’ve got something to barter

Email me at bmm AT gmail DOT com

Author name:: Bobbi
Publish date:: April 12th, 2009

National Poetry Month

What better way to celebrate National Poetry Month than with some of my favorite Poets!

30 Poets 30 Days!

I almost swooned when I read through the post at GottaBook! I can’t tell you how excited I am to share this with the boys. Several of the participating Poets are ones we have familiarity with via our fall Poetry Club.

A serendipitously, wonderful way to celebrate National Poetry Month with my boys!

From GottaBook:

Every day in April, I’ll be posting a previously unpublished poem by a different poet. Here’s the alphabetical list of who’s participating:

Arnold Adoff, Jaime Adoff, Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Douglas Florian, Betsy Franco, Kristine O’Connell George, Charles Ghigna, Nikki Giovanni, Joan Bransfield Graham, Nikki Grimes, Mary Ann Hoberman, Lee Bennett Hopkins, X. J. Kennedy, Julie Larios, J. Patrick Lewis, Pat Mora, Kenn Nesbitt, Linda Sue Park, Ann Whitford Paul, Gregory K. Pincus, Jack Prelutsky, Adam Rex, Jon Scieszka, Joyce Sidman, Marilyn Singer, April Halprin Wayland, Janet Wong, and Jane Yolen.

Read the whole post here!

Author name:: Bobbi
Publish date:: March 23rd, 2009