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Learning Outside the Box Blog Hop – Sports (Week #1)

Welcome to the first Learning Outside the Box Blog Hop post! Let me start off by saying that I came up with six topics and put them down on note cards. I had my daughter draw one, and of course she drew the hardest one: home improvement/home organization projects. I didn’t want to throw that …
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First Day of School 2013

Our first day of school was an incredibly productive one with minimal complaints! We went over the new “daily binders” first, which currently contain calendars, an attendance sheet, “I Can” lists (whicht can be used as a general guideline of what to expect to learn over the next year), and temperature graphs. I also purchased …
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Planning Methods, Part II

If you missed the first part of my planning system, here’s the link. Once I get my lesson plans written onto my six-week planner sheets, I put them into our V Planner, which is an elaborate Excel spreadsheet. We will be using V Planner V3 this year. It’s different from the one we used last …
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My Planning Methods

I’ve been putting off this post for a long time, since I know it’s destined to be a long, detailed one. However, it’s that time of year when the homeschool forums are all abuzz about which planner type to use: computer program, iPad app, spreadsheet, or good old-fashioned pencil and paper. So, here I am, …
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3rd-Grade Mini Office

In light of recent frustration over multiplication facts, I have realized that updated versions of the girls’ mini offices may be a fantastic idea! They made some a few years ago and used them briefly, but at the time, they consisted of things like colors, numbers, and the printed alphabet for H and addition, coins, and …
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