Hi Stacie: I can SSOO relate. I have an only child also, a 9yo girl. We play a lot of strategy type games like Checkers and Connect 4. I realize that might...
My 10 yo son looooves all board games. He's especially into the Cranium games. They involve reading, strategy (depending on the game), and some include...
WWW.iknowthat.com has math review that my only 10yr old dughter loves, it also has other review/learning games on it. Pam...
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To all my friends out there, I will be going "no mail" for the next couple of months as we are going to Boy Scout Camp for the summer. I hope this doesn't...
<<Also have a great book that has lots of educational ideas in it - games and projects. Right now, I can't think of the name of it and I'm not at home where I...
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Hi Everyone, A friend sent this to me and I thought you would enjoy seeing it. This is a web site about Humming Birds. A mother with her babies - from eggs...
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Here is a great article from NASA which explains how the sky will look over the next few weeks as Mars and Saturn align themselve right beside a huge star...
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This is a great video!!!! I hope you can watch it! Alisha><> The Animal School This past week one of our readers sent me a link to a slideshow style...
Hi all, I am doing some research for a book I am writing about homeschooling on a budget. I would like to ask for any interested folks to please email...
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For those intersted in backyard astronomy.... "Space Weather News for June 14, 2006 http://spaceweather.com CONVERGING PLANETS: Mars and Saturn aren't...
My 8 year old daughter has recently fallen in love with the library. In the last couple of weeks shešs gotten piles of books. Our library gives slips, sort...
Hi, Rhonda: We tape the library slips into a regular marble composition book. Then after the books have been read, my girls would put smiley face stickers by...
Dear Rhonda, I'm Penney's husband. One thing you can do is what I had to do when all 6 of 8 kids started checking all kinds of media out! Talk about racking...
Hi, I have graduated a high schooler last year and wanted to do high school different when my next one starts next year. I am eclectic and pick and choose...
This might so tedious, but it has really kept us from having library fines with all the books we check out. When I get home, I take the receipt that they...
Hi Rhonda: Our library also does this. What we've done (and we got the idea from a veteran homeschooler) is to take them and tape them onto a piece of...
Rhonda, Does your library allow you to go online to check your account and books you have? I throw the slips away and rely on the library website with my ...
I hang our slips on the refrigerator. If we take a book back early, I cross it out. And (obviously) take down the slip when all have been returned. If I...
I usually have my 7yo and 9yo post them on there cork board above there beds. They also have a cubby in there room for library books only. When it's time to...