For Today… Monday, January 9, 2017 Looking out my window … between the sky and ground, it’s grey and white. And frigid. I am thinking … that my husband is smarter than I am (no surprise there). He chose to hire movers for the hand-me-down sectional from my parents and that was so smart. They…
We are so excited to have begun our first week of our 2016 Academic Year! We have approximately 8 weeks of Ambleside Online Year 4 to complete. I hope to finish them in our first 6 week term. On Monday, we enjoyed our first-day shenanigans with a trip to Tim Horton’s for doughnuts and our…
I have always loved giving puzzles as gifts. We have tubs of big wooden puzzles and boxes of puzzles. When my kids were toddlers and preschoolers, Melissa and Doug puzzles like shapes, upper and lower case letters, numbers, hands and feet, vehicles, and animals were in huge rotation. As they got older, geography puzzles became…
Games are a fantastic way to learn about the world we live in and the location of various places. We have a lot of Geography games that we enjoy. The first is The Scrambled States of America game. There’s a related book by the same name that I kind of hate, but I do like…