Reading – Free Books

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Reading – Free Books The girls are starting to both read on their own and read to us more often. This is a great relief for both me and my husband.  That being said, we will be spending more time reading this year.  A great source of free books for you and the kids is Booksfree. I know with all the e-mails we receive a day we all worry about getting spam from the different Continue reading

Best deal of the day: iPads for carschool.

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Used iPad education, or carschool. If you travel like us this is essential too for carschool.  The best tool I have found for doing school work in the car. Carschooling is when you are learning while in the car. We play games, get into lots of long discussions, and do stuff on our iPad. The iPad is great for education games, movies, and searching the internet. I wanted to share some great deals I have found. Continue reading

Slumber party

 Slumber Party Yes, I am nuts I let 12 girls spend the night.  I was shocked at how good they all behaved and how much fun everyone had at the slumber party. The girls started off the day with their  roller skates, watched a movie, read some stories, played littlest  pet shop, played a few games on the iPad, and then ended up doing a fashion show. Ok it really was a nice night since Continue reading

Ipad games

Yep and your kids can learn a little too…. I updated my page (ok got it working).  You can find  all the educational games you want for your iPad 2, and a couple of fun ones too. I did all the dirty work – just go to the page on your iPad and click on the link and you go right to the page that will allow you to buy. iPad Apps page

iPad Games

We worked on the iPad games today. Are favorite was build a skeleton you practice putting the human body together like a puzzle. The girls got so excited about it, that I went on the Internet and printed a picture of the skeleton so they could see how it was put together. They must have played with it for a good hour making different ones and then Mac made a video – The girls played Continue reading

Do you have problems in school? Should I home school?

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I started homeschooling or unschooling when we moved to Florida, and I had the great opportunity to work from home.  I decided to unschool for several reasons.  The first was because my oldest daughter was having problems in school.  Kids made fun of her because she read slow. We found out she had a problem with her eyes couldn’t focus, but learned she has a photographic memory. It really upset me because I had so many problems in school Continue reading