The Great Backyard Bird Count starts today! It’s as easy as 1… 2…. 3
You just might see a huge red-tailed hawk like this one we spotted last week:

*picture courtesy Slobo and his handy-dandy camera picture (sheesh and it’s only 10:30 am) -taking abilities.
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If you have bird watchers in your family too, you might want to attend the Great Backyard Bird Count.
All you do is:
1. Plan to count birds for at least 15 minutes on one or more days of the count, February 13–16, 2009
2. For each type of bird you see, count the most you see at [...]

I added the TimeLine_Index.pdf
to the mix. It’s here if you want it. (9 pp. – 146k)
The Index is just a paper form of Timelineindex.com’s Period pages, meant as an aid to show the kids how history is divided up amongs different groups for ‘dealing’ with history [...]

After alot of procrastination, I finally got the timeline journal pages ready for the kids to start pasting things down. It took awhile to come to grips with exactly how I was going to lay it out for them. Finally, deciding on personal timeline journals, I made the blank page I showed you [...]

I thought I’d share this timeline paper.jpg I created tonight. You can punch it on the top side or the left side. I’m using Paint.NET v3.35 software to create it, and it shows that it’s 8.5 x 11 (landscape orientation) so hopefully it will print to that size for ya’ll.
If you have a [...]

The Picture of the kids first day back to school. The “I’ll have my eyes open in a minute one” is my night owl. The other two were up and ready on the dot! They got to pick what to wear. From the way they dress sometimes, one would think I [...]

The Kids started back to school on Monday. They were soooo excited that by 11pm, still wide awake with nerves, we let them come downstairs into the classroom and at least peek at their new supplies and check out the room. Slobo took pics for me the next morning, but since I’m [...]

I’ve spent most of this week, doing teach schtuff preparing for this coming school year. While I was working on the classroom, the kids were in the back of the basement perfecting their Texas Hold ‘Em strategies. It was too cute to pass up the opportunity for another picture! They were [...]

Remember that book, Yardsticks, I was telling you about? What are the chances that yesterday I would tell you about that book and today my 8yr. old would hand me a classic example of an 8 yr. old’s love for ‘bad’ words? I couldn’t help but post it.
When I told him [...]

I ran into this book, Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14 : A Resource for Parents and Teachers (Paperback), by Chip Wood sitting by itself on a clearance table. After perusing the 8 yr. old section, I figured it was cheap enough that it couldn’t hurt to buy it. Now, I [...]

Merriam-Webster has a new visual dictionary. Okay, new to me. It was introduced to the public in November of 2007.
You can look for a word from their index of themes and see a picture of it’s use. It is really neat! Now I know what a pipe threader [...]

What have I been up to?
I found two great web sites created by one great individual, Maggie!
Hillbilly Housewife
and
An Old-Fashioned Education
Check them out…. There are great recipes, things to make you smile and lots of support – and best of all – Maggie shares (ALOT)!
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What else is in the family news:
The not-so-good news:
Our middle child’s goldfish, [...]

These came in on a feed. Ya’ll might be able to use them too.
http://www.dafont.com
http://www.acidfonts.com/index.html
http://www.smackbomb.com/famousfonts/index.html
http://simplythebest.net/fonts/index.html
http://www.urbanfonts.com
http://www.fontarchive.com/html/category.html

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I ran into this website via a GED teacher’s website. It offers excellent information to homeschoolers!
Donna Young has created a website chock full of detailed information. The work she put into it is evident from page one. Be sure to send her a big Thank You when you get there [...]

It is amazing what is on the internet that I don’t remember ever stumbling into before…. This is one of those great educational sites:
Early America

Trackstar 4 Teachers Org. has thousands of lesson plans that are searchable by grade levels and subject. For example, I know we will be discussing American History this year up to 1860. So, I can line up lesson plans that have been rated by other teachers. Many go to alot of interesting [...]

I’ve been working on getting the lesson plans ready for the year and ran into some very helpful sites that I wanted to share.
There is a group on Yahoo called Elementary Lesson Share. Teachers of Elementary School Age Children share lesson plans. The group was formed by a retired teacher from Australia, a Canadian [...]

I found this site beneficial.
Marcopolosearch.org
I havent’ checked this one out much yet, but it seems to be a ‘homework helper’ type place. Maybe I will finally be able to figure out algebra. haha.
Webmath

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The kids and I were discussing last week, what we needed to accomplish before starting our homeschool up again for the year. They can’t wait, but I’m not ready yet.
Our list:
1. Setup school website.There is so much valuable info to supplement us, and with two of them reading well now, we decided this was a [...]

I’ve been working on the kids’ new homeschool blog site, revamping it to be less complicated, when I ran into this site.
Thinkfree
If you are teaching – take a look at how technology is helping to keep everyone in sync, no matter where they are! I am in awe!!! What a great job!

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