Jacque | September 25, 2009
I was able to purchase several of these Tote Boards on a gift certificate last summer and gave a couple to two of our children. They liked them well enough, but it was summer, and we were always so busy that they didn’t get used very often. Last night, I remembered I hadn’t given one [...]
Category: Heart and Home, Homeschooling- Lessons, Ideas and Tips, Living Learning Moments, A Dixon Home Education, Teens and High School |
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Tags: art, clipboard, crafts, drawing, education, home school, Littles, Living Learning Moments, nature study, organization, Our Children, painting, Reviews, sketching, watercolour
Jacque | September 12, 2009
We were scheduled to start school, as we do every year, on the Tuesday after Labor Day – four days ago. I always have a hard time saying that we “start school” on a certain day, because, we honestly are continually looking at just about everything there is in life from a learning and critiquing [...]
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Tags: books, education, home schooling, Learning, Littles, Living Learning Moments, organization, planning, printers, remodeling, scheduling, workboxes
Jacque | August 11, 2009
I have done laundry a few different ways in the past 4 years: we have had our oldest do all the laundry, the oldest 5 do all their own laundry (the 9yo to the 19yo), and I am now keeping up on it myself.
We have gotten to the point that we do laundry just about [...]
Category: Babies and Toddlers, Home Management, Living Learning Moments, A Dixon Home Education, large families |
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Tags: children, Large Family, laundry, Living Learning Moments, organization, parenting, planning, schedules
Jacque | August 6, 2009
I really am trying to get books and workboxes organized for our learning times this year. Real life learning – Living Learning Moments, hasn’t quite allowed it yet…
Workboxes sit empty…
bookshelves too…
my piles of planning still there, a bit scattered from inquisitive children…
I know what I want to do. I’ve got it “right up here”… it’s [...]
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Tags: books, bookshelves, home school, home schooling, lessons, life, Living Learning Moments, organization, planning, Wordless Wednesday, workboxes
Jacque | July 23, 2009
Maybe you have already heard of the Workbox system by Sue Patrick. I did my own version of this system somewhat about 5 years ago, using stackable file folders when my dad gave me about 25 of them. More recently, I have been using large plastic magazine boxes to put all of one child’s books [...]
Category: Are you Wondering If You Should Homeschool, Homeschooling- Lessons, Ideas and Tips, Training Hearts ~ Parenting |
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Tags: containers, curriculum, elementary ages, filing, grids, high school, home schooling, lists, Living Learning Moments, middle school, numbers, organization, picture tags, pre-school, schedules, school, system, workboxes, yahoo group