North Laurel Home & School

Catch-Up! Week 25 and Testing

2012-02-27T10:40:00.001-05:00

Please be in prayer for those who are affected by the Chardon, OH, school shooting. I thank God everyday that my kids are home with me. So I missed the entire week’s worth of school recording. It was a busy week for me. But here I am getting caught up! Here is Fox’s work:Bible: Reading Deut. 30 & 31, John 6 & 7; verse Romans 12:1-4; Who Am I?, read 57-68, do pages 38-44 in notebook; Saints &

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2012-02-25T11:04:00.001-05:00

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Book Review: The Corruptible

2012-02-25T10:39:00.001-05:00

The Corruptible by Mark Mynheir ISBN: 978-1601420749; ASIN: B004FGMDMSPaperback, 352 pages; ebook, 429 KBPublisher: Multnomah BooksRetail: $14.99 What the book is about: How much money would it take for you to betray the truth? Ex-homicide detective Ray Quinn never had glamorous thoughts of the life of a private investigator—but being cornered in a bathroom stall by the enraged philandering

Current Events: Week of 2/20–2/24

2012-02-24T15:14:00.001-05:00

Greetings, blog-buddies! Get ready for your… Current Events! In local news, we’ve got a ‘hero’ who prefers to go incognito! Noel Bottesch was driving on Vrooman Road when apparently she had some problems and drove off into Grand River nearby. She was able to get out of the car as it started to sink in the 12-feet deep, freezing-cold water. An unknown man, passing by, saw and dove into the water

TOS REVIEW: Reading Eggs

2012-02-24T09:26:00.001-05:00

Through the TOS Homeschool Crew I was given a free trial from Reading Eggs in order to give an honest review. Since my son is on the tail end of the age range this is designed for, he used Reading Eggspress much more than the base program, Reading Eggs. This review reflects that. I hope you like images, because this review will have quite a few! If you cannot see them well enough at their

Hands of a Child Asia Note Pack- A Review

2012-02-22T16:11:00.001-05:00

We are used to a living books approach to our school so working with this note pack was a little different. Pretty much all the information that is needed to do the activity sheets (the notebook pages) is included already- just needs to be read. The information is very straight forward and a lot of what we have already studied, because of this I thought it might be somewhat repetitive for my 7th

Back to School- Week 25

2012-02-20T19:21:00.001-05:00

Trying to recall if Week 24 was recorded here or anywhere else {besides the kids’ planners} and I don’ think so. I’m not going to do that now. So as not to risk getting farther behind {at least with recording the doings} I’ll just move on to this week. I have a post to write about our ‘field trip’ on 2/13 …but honestly, not sure when that’ll happen. It’s Monday. This week actually is going to be

TOS REVIEW: Beeyoutiful!

2012-02-20T15:00:00.000-05:00

Through the TOS Homeschool Review Crew, Beeyoutiful sent me two items to review: Hair Shine All-Natural Leave in Conditioner and Beeyoutiful All-Natural Lip Moisturizer {makes the acronym B.A.L.M.}. I will start with the Hair Shine product that I received. I’ve tried quite a few different shampoos and conditioners in order to get my hair ‘nice’. My problem is that usually the shampoo dries out

Vocabulary Spelling City- A Review

2012-02-20T08:45:00.000-05:00

In school, I loved spelling tests. I would quickly look over the list of 20 or so words, tuck it away and I was ready to go. Spelling came easy for me and I didn’t really need to worry about it. Well, we can’t all be so lucky *wink* {and I’m finding that I’m not doing so well as I get older}. Neither of my kids are exceptional as spellers {they do okay} and they don’t seem to enjoy those

Bible Review: ESV Grow! Bible

2012-02-18T18:30:00.001-05:00

ESV Grow! BibleISBN: 978-1433528743Hardcover, 1600 pagesPublisher: CrosswayRetails: $27.99 About the ESV Grow! Bible (from the publisher): [It] is designed for children ages 8-12 for the time between when they use a children’s Bible and a more advanced edition. Coupling the full ESV text with many helpful features, this is a Bible that young students can call their own. [It] comes with all-new

TOS REVIEW: Apologia {Who Am I?}

2012-02-17T20:24:00.001-05:00

The second volume in the What We Believe series from Apologia: Who Am I? Book-hardcover ($39.00)Notebooking Journal-spiral bound ($24.00)Audio Book MP3 CD ($19.00) Who Am I? Coloring Book-stapled book ($8.00). Written towards 6-14 year olds, it can easily be adapted to all ages of the family. See samples of the Notebooking Journal, the main Book, and coloring book. You can also hear a sample

Organize Your Bookmarks with Clipix

2012-02-16T14:01:00.001-05:00

Bookmarks are wonderful. You find a site that you just have to remember so you bookmark it. Now you will always be able to find it. Or will you? If you are like me (oh come on, let's see at least one hand raised!) those bookmarks are only as good as the organizational skills of the bookmarker. In my case, that is not saying much! Enter clipix. This is bookmarking reinvented to

Book Review: Surprised by Laughter

2012-02-15T21:30:00.001-05:00

Surprised by Laughter: The Comic World of C. S. Lewis by Terry Lindvall, Ph.DISBN: 978-1595554789Paperback, 496 pages (includes notes, bibliography, etc)Publisher: Thomas NelsonRetail: $16.99 From the back cover: For C. S. Lewis, merriment was serious business, and like no book before it, Surprised by Laughter explains why. Author Terry Lindvall takes readers on a highly amusing and deeply

Deck

2012-02-14T21:39:00.001-05:00

Thanks for the post from Nora Mccoy We got direct tv deals and upgraded our television package. I’m glad that we did because we got all of the movie channels. My husband and I were on vacation and we decided to spend it around the house. We were trying to get some things done around the house that we had been putting off. We were hoping that we would get to strip and stain the deck, but the

Highlighting Links by Subject for Schooling- Language Arts

2012-02-12T07:17:00.001-05:00

Each week there will be a post {or two or three} highlighting some links that have been collected and compiled on the Links by Subject for Schooling page on my blog. At this point, I plan to go alphabetically through the subjects because that’s how I am but the websites most likely won’t be alphabetized…sorry for any confusion! Language Arts Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Companies Free workbooks grades 6

Relax, Cold, Stress {not in that order}- Weekly Wrap-Up (2/10/12)

2012-02-11T11:14:00.001-05:00

In my life this week…In our homeschool this week…It’s been a fairly normal week here. Monday I worked {but not my usual hours- which threw us off a bit}, Tuesday we enjoyed the cold outdoors, Wednesday we did it again, Thursday I worked {again not my usual hours- which didn’t throw us off this time} but was able to get a book review in, and Friday I worked again {normally I don’t work on Fridays

A World Without Math?

2012-02-10T17:34:00.001-05:00

Math…the dreaded four letter word. Some parents and their children do quite well with this subject; they require no extra help to tackle it and get it right. But there are plenty of others who do not get along so well with math. It is an important subject to be able to understand and master. Every part of our lives in some way involves math- buying groceries, purchasing a gift for someone else,

Book Review: The Rose of Winslow Street

2012-02-09T12:07:00.001-05:00

The Rose of Winslow Street by Elizabeth Camden ISBN: 978-0764208959 Paperback, 342 pages Publisher: Bethany House Retail: $14.99 The last thing Libby Sawyer and her father expected upon their return from their summer home was to find strangers inhabiting a house that had been in their family for decades. Widower Michael Dobrescu brought his family from Romania to the town of Colden,

Highlighting Links by Subject for Schooling- Government, Economics, Civics

2012-02-09T07:44:00.001-05:00

Each week there will be a post {or two or three} highlighting some links that have been collected and compiled on the Links by Subject for Schooling page on my blog. At this point, I plan to go alphabetically through the subjects because that’s how I am but the websites most likely won’t be alphabetized…sorry for any confusion! Government/Economics/Civics +Lessons for the Young Economist by

Day #113-115: When We Spent Some of Our Day Outside

2012-02-08T20:49:00.001-05:00

I’ve been slacking on keeping track of the work that’s been done. Last week I think I failed to record Thursday and Friday (although we did have a field trip that I shared). But in all honesty, not much ‘school’ was done. So Monday was Day #113 and it doesn’t seem like it can be! Amazing. Perhaps because we school year round it feels like the first of the year and not mid way through. Anyway, I

We Love Nature

2012-02-07T14:11:00.001-05:00

Yesterday was beautiful and warm. We wanted to go to the park to enjoy the day. Packed up ourselves and headed out… The first one we wanted to go to was actually right next to a school but we thought that was the park {which had the nice play area}; it wasn’t. The second one we went to was closed for some reason {it has an awesome play area} so we went to the one close to our house. It was

Field Trip! Weekly Wrap-Up (2/2/12)–LOTS of photos!

2012-02-04T11:41:00.001-05:00

Day #108-112- WOW! In our homeschool this week…In my life this week… {because it all meshes together anyway}I won’t say the week’s been a wash for school because it hasn’t been –completely. I wrote about Monday and Tuesday and how I tried to finagle recordable stuff from just about everything we did. It worked okay. Places we are going and people we are seeing…Wednesday…what happened Wednesday?

TOS REVIEW: Classical Astronomy Celestial Almanack {February Issue}

2012-02-02T23:13:00.001-05:00

There are three rare occurrences to take place in the sky this year, do you know what they are? With The Classical Astronomy’s February issue of Celestial Almanack, you will! I’m not inclined to understand astronomy. I mean, I must not be. I look at the night sky and see the dots of light that pierce the blue-black blanket but cannot distinguish much more than the moon and possibly the Big Dipper

Highlighting Links by Subject for Schooling- Geography

2012-02-02T20:47:00.001-05:00

Each week there will be a post {or two or three} highlighting some links that have been collected and compiled on the Links by Subject for Schooling page on my blog. At this point, I plan to go alphabetically through the subjects because that’s how I am but the websites most likely won’t be alphabetized…sorry for any confusion! Geography Seterra*- Free “educational geography game with more than

Veritas Press- Resource for Christian, Classical Homeschooling

2012-02-01T22:22:00.001-05:00

Veritas Press is a provider of classical Christian education materials. The materials they offer range from Aesthetics to Science, from Bible to Rhetoric, etc. They offer resources for kindergarten to adult. Keep in mind that the books and products at Veritas Press are geared toward the Classical education approach {I think trivium- grammar, rhetoric and logic}. We use a Charlotte Mason approach