School For Us

We have been closely following the news out of Japan - especially as we left the country less than 24 hours before the major earthquake and ...

Last spring we started watching CNN Student News every morning to keep up with current events. We are excited that they are back after summ...

(NOTE: YOU CAN SEE ALEX'S VIDEO ON MY BLOG. I'm not sure why it doesn't show up on Google Reader.) Alex's history assignme...

I have mentioned the Free Technology for Teachers blog several times since I found it a few weeks ago. I am finding so many wonderful resou...

Today, Alex's online history class briefly discussed supply and demand. This is something we haven't discussed before, so I went ...

Pollinator LIVE will be hosting a live webcast this Wednesday, May 12th. It is geared for grades 4 to 8 and is the first of a series of liv...

With Alex being sick today, we ended up watching The Polio Crusade which I had recorded with our DVR. It is another PBS American Experience...

One of our relatives is a law professor at KU. Today, she got to meet with former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. I thought i...

In Alex's online class, we just finished reading about the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. One of the links we were ...

I have been busy customizing my blog this afternoon. I wanted my posting area to be wider, and I hope my photos will turn out bigger, too. T...

CurrClick will be having a Black Friday Sale this Friday. They will have lots of FREE products! Last year, I picked up quite a few wonderfu...

Yesterday, Jill at "History for Children" posted a comment on my blog. So, I went over to her blog to have a look. I love her blo...

I have been reading about a mom and her 9 year old daughter who just spent 6 weeks doing Homeschool Across America . Hmmm... that has me thi...

We have another website that we've discovered in the past few weeks that we are LOVING. It is called Multiplication.com . Alex LOVES pla...

We are using various things for spelling this year. Our spelling list comes from: a curriculum, Alex's misspelled words, and words we ar...

About a year ago I discovered Google Reader and it is saving me so much time! Using Google Reader, I can track all of my favorite blogs on...

Julie at Ms. Julie's Place honored me with the IEMommy Blogger Award . ( Thank you, Julie!) "This award acknowledges the values th...

We are getting ready to memorize the entire list of presidents - in order - for Classical Conversations. Whew! Someone sent me a link to thi...

Someone told me about the Spelling Connections website today. It has 3 areas: Word Sort (Spellign & Thinking), Complete the Sentence (S...

Alexandra "rediscovered" BrainPop today. We don't have a subscription, but they have quite a few FREE videos . And, they'...