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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

What We're Using to Teach DD (age 4 1/2) to Read

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Animal Antics: If you've read our blog for a while, you know that DD knew all her letter sounds at age 3 and start...
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Learning to Read: Readers We Use (continued)

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Primary Phonics by EPS : I'll also bring the first two sets (20 books) of Primary Phonics by EPS. All I have are t...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Jesse Gap

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One of the few things we did out-and-about last week was to go to Jesse Gap with friends. The older kids had a lot of fun climbing up the r...
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Todd River Starts to Flow

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It has been raining quite a bit the past few days.  The other day, a friend of a friend  stopped at the Todd River bed, which is normally dr...

Galahs

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We put up a brick of bird seed on the front fence. Last week in addition to the Port Lincoln (Ring-Necked) Parrots we ...
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A Couple More Port Lincoln Parrot Pics

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Stuart Desert Pea

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These flowers grow here in Central Australia. My neighbor has some growing on the verge.  I've always liked them because they're q...
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Saturday, April 3, 2010

Free Life Science Curriculum (early elementary)

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I just learned about a science website called The Lab of Mr. Q . Wow! What a find!  This 8th grade science teacher created a science curricu...
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Friday, April 2, 2010

Easter Logic Puzzle and Bunny Hundreds Place Value Grid

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It's probably too late to be of use to anyone else, but I still thought I'd share these puzzles that I made for ...
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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Getting Ready to Say Goodbye

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Our time has been taken up more and more by our move away from central Australia. We are both excited to move on and sad to leave this beau...

Huntsman Spiders

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The other day as I pulled away from the house, a huntsman spider crawled up over my shoulder... luckily it was on the OTHER side of the gla...

Check Out this Stick Bug!

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This stick bug was more than 10 inches/25 cm long! When LD poked at it, we nearly jumped out of our skin when it suddenly started flapping ...
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Monday, March 22, 2010

Science Center Monday: Rocks and Minerals

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Over the weekend, LD pulled out his rocks and minerals kits that he got from Grandma and Grandpa for Christmas. I also had ...

The Three Types of Rocks

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The first thing we did together was to sing the "Rock Song." It was to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat a...

Learning How Sedimentary, Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks were Formed

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These are cards from the teacherdesk.info. The packet was more than 60 pages long and I thought it was a good quality...
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