Ami is working through an aggressive math curricula, using Saxon math. Her main goal this year is to get her caught up & comfortable in her math skills. Our local school has been struggling with getting their kids to pass the standardized tests, especially in math and science. When we were looking for curriculum to [...]
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Tommy is finally beginning to be an independent reader, something that’s been our main goal for awhile now. I know that kids struggle for awhile, then it’s like a switch is flipped in their head and they’re magically fluent readers, so I’m just trying to keep forcing gently encouraging him to put in his reading [...]
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With last year’s snow, I figured that come the end of January, the kids would be climbing the walls inside the house, so I enrolled them in a class at the YMCA to climb THEIR walls! Wall Climbing, or Indoor Rock Climbing is becoming more and more popular across America. Gyms, community buildings, and stores [...]
Last Wednesday, I was using something that’s been hanging out in my draw since July of last year. I was jazzed to get to use this thing finally, because in the store, it looked like the answer to all of my kitchen problems. The Palm Peeler, by Chef’n. See, I don’t peel potatoes often, I [...]
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