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Frugal Living

Frugal Homeschool Tips

September 19, 2012 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

or Dad “What is an Adjective?”

So today Princess had a paper that dealt with adjectives. Since we place worksheets on a clipboard at the beginning of the week, we never really know what day a sheet will be completed on. Each child can work as many sheets a day as they want as long as at least 2 sheets are done OR all sheets completed by Friday.

Riley was sitting in the living room enjoying his cup of coffee when Princess brought this question up. His response, “Bring me the tv and PS3 remotes. I know just the thing to help.” I grinned when I caught on to what was up his sleeve.

School House Rocks!! Unpacking an Adjective.

Of course, once one School House Rocks video is played you cannot just turn off the system:) They also watched:

I’m Just a Bill

Counting by Five’s

Electricity

Just some fun Non-traditional ways to learn! The great fun of homeschool is the choice to chose a variety of ways to teach/learn:)

Happy Homeschooling!

 

 

Photobucket Tiny Tip Tuesday @ Nature's Nurture

Filed Under: Family, Frugal Living, Homeschooling, Lil' Red Tagged With: adjectives, electricity, phonics, School House Rocks

Quick Ribbon Ironing Tutorial

September 18, 2012 By Thaleia 3 Comments

No More Wrinkled Ribbon

I found some super cute hot pink ribbon from a gift bag. The gift bag was ripped and needed to be purged! The ribbon was too nice to throw out. I love wide satin ribbon:)

I told princess I was going to show her how to iron ribbon to salvage it. She offered all on her own to video it for me! Such a sweet girl. So no rehearsal, no editing. No time to clean off the kitchen table, lol. (it is a mess. long weekend, sick Eldest, and playgroup with Lil’ Red!)

Supplies:

wrinkled ribbon

Flat-iron– any size should work (make sure it’s not gunky from hairspray,etc.)

Here’s our tutorial shot after lunch:

Now you can keep your eye out for super cute satin ribbon and revive it with a quick iron. Other places to find ribbon besides gift bags would be Christmas gift packs of clothes or jammies.

Happy crafting:)

No Ordinary Blog Hop  Homemade Projects ~ Add Yours! {9-18}

Filed Under: Frugal Living Tagged With: crafts, recycle, tutorial

Tot School – 10 Ways to Play with Your ABC’s

September 4, 2012 By Thaleia 7 Comments

10 Ways to Play with Your ABC’s

(Disclosure: There are affiliate links within this post. The links provide a way for us to support our site and provide great ideas and content to you! Thanks for your support.)

Just wanted to share with you some simple ABC Tot Trays. I’m sure you will be able to find suitable items lying around your house to create these fun Tot Trays.

Ways to Play with ABC's

1. Magnets and Metal Juice Lids– if you drink frozen juice concentrate or know of some families that do, then ask them to save the lids. Wash and dry very well. Then use permanent marker or vinyl alphabet stickers. The magnetic letters will stick to the lids and make a great matching game.

2. Flashcards– Try to come up with a new way to use them. Say the name of the letter, match a magnetic letter to flashcard or spell the object on the flashcard.

3. ABC and Baseball Card pockets– use a few baseball card pocket sheets and stickers to create an easy match game. Small or flat letters can be placed inside pockets. Larger etter can be placed on top.

4. Sound and Letter Match– small 3D objects (dollar store toys) to represent the letters you have. Some sort of divided tray helps to sort out objects. (I bought mine at a garage sale for .10) You can use foam alphabets or magnetic letters or wooden alphabet for this tray. Use what you have or borrow from a friend.

5. Small ABC erasers and ABC Desk strip (magnetized)– I have a few sets of small abc erasers, probably from the dollar store, that work great with the small deskstrip abc’s teachers often buy in rolls for their classrooms. (I got mine at a teacher’s moving sale!) I used some old business card magnets to make the strip so it won’t move on those metal trays from Dollar Tree!

6. Foam Letter Stamps, Paper, and Metal Tray– I bought these foam alphabet stamps at Joann Fabric and Crafts using a 50% coupon. Princess used these during 1st grade to stamp some of her spelling words. I know Lil’ Red will love the hands-on crafty mess! 

7. ABC Wooden Puzzle on Metal Tray– I wish I knew where these wooden puzzle pieces came from. My husband has a larger set from his childhood and we got this set, but are missing some of the pieces.

8. Poker Chips, Stickers, and Magnetic Letters– I made these BEFORE Eldest was born while I was going to college to earn an AAS in Early Childhood Development. They have been sitting in my alphabet box all this time!

9. Chalkboard and Jumbo Letters– This is a small chalkboard bought at a craft store years ago. The jumbo magnetic letters were back from my ECD college days as well.

10. ABC Wooden Blocks and Plastic Animals– Use wooden blocks to spell out the names of animals. For younger tot’s I would use a flashcard or nonmenclature card for them to match the letters. Older tot’s you can help them read the words and match the animals. You can ask the child what sound the animal makes.

Another way to learn letters (affiliate links):

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Filed Under: Family, Freebies, Frugal Living, Homeschooling, Lil' Red, Tot School

Auditory Learners

September 2, 2012 By Thaleia 6 Comments

or Too Busy to Learn?

Are your children auditory learners? Do you have children that need hands-on activities in able to learn? How about those boys that must be “busy” either by hand or body and CANNOT sit still to learn? Then I would suggest audio learning! The amount of free resources for audiobooks is outstanding. I could probably create an entire blog around them, but for now will stick to a post.

READ and educate yourself about how children learn, your teaching style, and how boys/auditory learners are different. A few books I would reccomend are:

Bringing up Boys by Dr. Dobson

The Way They Learn by Cynthia Ulrich Tobias

Here’s a link to a site which offers free audio for history and literature:
http://kids.learnoutloud.com/Kids-Free-Stuff/Page1#self

FREE Digital book resources:
Free Kid’s Kindle Books

Digital Book Index– searched Children

Worthwhile History Reading

www.booksshouldbefree.com

Gutenberg Children’s

International Children’s Digital Library

Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature

Archive’s Children’s Library

AUDIOBOOKS are wonderful!(my 9 1/2 yr. old loves them, but will also read as
well) He has read The Chronicles of Narnia, Eragon, Eldest, Brisinger, Inheritence, and Dragon Rider- all via audiobook cd. We also have tons of books downloaded to use for school time. We find them free from lots of different places from deal blogs, email lists, librivox, library, etc.

FREE Audiobook links:

Classic AudioBooks

Open Culture– 450 free audiobooks, courses, langauge lessons, movies,etc.

Reading Motivation by Sylvan called Book Adventures

Check my Literature Ideas on pinterest for great links for free
downloadable books, records, classic lit, preschool literature ideas, etc.
http://pinterest.com/tmaher45356/

Websites/blog articles talking about boys and homeschooling:

Homeschool or Hell– by Holy Spirit-Led Homeschooling

Homeschooling Boys– essential supplies

20 Ways to Re-set Your Day– when your kids start a bad day

Cultivating Curiosity– by Walking by the Way

Teaching With Legos

please fell free to pursue any of my boards I have tons of free homeschool resources! http://pinterest.com/tmaher45356

DISCLAIMER: I do have a few affiliate links within this post. if you were to click on those links and then make a purchase I could make some money from that purchase. I also do not endorse all links to be child friendly WITHOUT parent supervision. Websites and their content can change by the hour. Please preview the site for suitable content and download what you deem appropriate for your child or family.

Filed Under: Freebies, Frugal Living, Homeschooling Tagged With: audiobooks, digital books, freebies

Christmas Deals on Amazon-already??

August 13, 2012 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Just saw some really cute items on Amazon that would make super cute Christmas presents! These items are marked down with deep discounts and won’t last long:) Free Shipping with orders over $25-super bonus.

Some really great choices for mind and body games for all ages. The perfect gift for cool weather and to get kids from saying, “Mom, I’m bored!”

 

Filed Under: Family, Frugal Living Tagged With: amazon, Christmas, deals

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