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 data. Time Periods are almost always politically motivated, highly subjective and always full of conjecture. Still, this seems to be the prevailing time period grouping during my lifetime, and when kids hear things like “Jurassic period” I want them to get a glimpse of how that fit in with the rest of history. Their site offers really good information about who where when.

I added the word “Theory” under each group of questionable or total lack of accurate dating methods. That’s my take on it with the research I’ve done so far. With carbon dating 1/2 life of 7,500 years and carbon’s limited use - unsure accuracies of newer methods of Carbon 12 and 13 and helium - and the fact that I don’t think they found a tree with over a 5,000 rings on it, lol. On the other side of things, checking my Bible, I can’t find anything over the 4,000 B.C. date range (for authorship dating only) and that was Scofield’s take on things. God didn’t say when he decided to create the earth and us, or even what clock he was using. It was a long time before humans came close to a standard time frame anyway (after the Mayans I believe) if your interested in checking it out. Me, I’ll stick with Theory and try to make it very clear to the kids just how much mis-information is out there being touted as fact by political advocates and try to do my best to muddle out the facts for them.

The dates are based on the Homeschool in the Woods recommendations. They seemed like a great place to start and with it being in a journal format, we can add pages as needed. I broke them out into 3 different pdf’s, mainly so I could correlate some of what was in the state curriculum guides with what I wanted to teach.

So, if you are so inclined to begin a journal - Here’s the pdf’s. Total pages for the notebook: 120 pps. (including preface)

#1 - Creation to Christ’s Birth 23 pp @ 5,838kb

*Note: I include a preface page as a handout. My kids are very young, but I want them to get a basic start on understanding the Evolutionist’s / Geological timelines vs. the Creationist’s Timeline. More importantly, I will use it as an opportunity to teach them about theorists, scientists, facts, and the old adage “Don’t believe everything you read (from humans, of course!”)

I believe God created the world - and he did it in his time! Personally, I don’t worry about what clock he was using. But the kids need the information and to understand where it’s coming from - on all sides - to the best of my ability to teach it to them. I’m trying to raise “thinking” human beings here!

#2 - Christ’s Birth to 1860 60 pp @ 13,853kb

*Note: I stop off at 1860 because the state cirriculum does…. There’s alot going on here, so I’m sure we will be using dividers to seperate historical eras.

#3 - 1860 to Present Day 36 pp @ 8,086kb

*Note: I say present, but I’m looking forward to grandchildren one day, so it goes to the year 2025! The kids will have to print timelines for their own kids after that!

J3 grew like a weed this summer. After cleaning out his dresser, I realized he was down to 3 pairs of PJ’s that actually fit him. So I made him some more (with room to grow through the winter). The flannel and fleece fabrics are from Walmart. The tops took 1 1/2 yd, fleece bottoms 1 yd. for size 10. The dk blue cotton knit is Carter’s 12″ tubular knit I bought from Fabric Club a couple of years ago. I still have 20 yards of the stuff and it doesn’t seem I’ll ever find the end of the roll. Sometimes it’s probably not a good idea to go overboard even if the fabric is really a great price! The other knits are cotton knits picked up when I can find them. For some odd reason, it’s really hard to find a cotton knit in Georgia. Remember when cotton was king? sorry . j/k.

Simplicity 9499 I use this one for the raglan t-shirts for the boys. The neck does tend to be a bit large. When I forget to cut it smaller, I use a wider knit neckband with lycra in it for memory retention. (The fabric - not me. lol)

There is another set of these with a lt. blue cotton knit top and cotton woven sleeping pants with a cowboy print. One thing to note is my boys are really rough on knit pj bottoms. When I do the flannels and Woven bottoms, if I add an extra layer of fabric to the inside at the knees. If I don’t, within 6 months the fabric will be worn and ripping there. I think if I add some fusi-knit to the knees of the knits, it might help wearability, but haven’t tried it yet.

McCalls M9206 - basic sleep / play pants and t-shirts pattern.

Puppy dogs and paw prints

Monkeys and cuddle pants

I’ve used this pattern since the boys were toddlers. I just change up pockets depending on what I’m making. Great basic pattern. The pockets on the fleece bottoms are lined with the matching flannel from the tops. I find they like lots of pockets, so I put two on the front of the tops and two on the legs - one on each side.

I often recycle knit neckbands and cuffs from old clothes. If you turn them inside out - as long as they have retained their shape, it works well - especially when you need just that perfect color - like pale yellow. It can be difficult to find pastel rib knits especially. I also save zippers, fun fasteners and appliques in freezer ziploc bags. Those items can really run up the price of making a garment and I don’t see any reason to not keep them if they are in good shape. All - in - all, J3’s PJ’s cost about 23.00 to make (5 pairs). He gets new warm PJ’s from fabric he picked and as he puts it - love sewn in the stitches! Anyway, I hope you found this useful in a sharing sort of way.

Now to tackle Doc’s birthday! He’s going to be 9 in 10 days Didn’t we just do this???

• Use a container that you can put holes into the bottom of for drainage. Set this on top of something to collect the Yummy juices for your garden and plants.

  Don’t Feed them onions. They don’t like them. And you don’t want to give them dairy items such as eggshells. *See below for what I do with egg shells.
  

  If you put the containers in your yard (as she has several), you may want to put a mote around them. Ants will be drawn to them. She lost her first worms this way. The ants won’t cross the water.

  Small worms are best. If the weather is severe, you can bury the container so as to give it a constant temperature.

I bring this up because fast-forward a couple of weeks cruising the net, I run into a knitster’s blog who is talking about building a brick oven in her backyard. As a bread baker, I dream of having a brick oven from which to pull gorgeous artisan loaves from to take to market! The plans she was using came from another wonderful blogger, Rado in Australia. He designs and builds outdoor ovens and gives marvelous detail on how to go about building yourself one! He also was talking about worm farming! Isn’t it strange how things go circular sometimes?

Rado’s site is chock full of great information! I’m sure you’ll find several hours of interesting reading and daydreaming there!

* As for the eggs. I use them powdered to add calcium to Stitches’s dog food. His food we make from scratch is made of Rice, meat (usually chicken), a green vegetable (we had lots of okra and green beans) and a yellow veggie (squash or carrotts will work). When I have a dozen or so eggshells and a bit of time, I boil the shells in a saucepan for about 3-5 minutes. After they have cooled, gently cave the shell in and begin pulling it off away from the membrane. Crush the shells using a mortar and pestle until it’s a powder (the finer the better - but mostly crushed for a pup will do). This is pure calcium powder! You can use it for several things like houseplants. I sprinkle about a tablespoon on each cup of Stitches’s food. I store it in an old jar and just add to it whenever I get more eggshells. It’s a shame to throw away such a great source of calcium!

If you have a paint program you could fill in the main date, a period specific heading and page #’s or just use a fine line marker and write it on the page. I’ve made this template based on the Homeschool in the woods website TimelineHelps. Amy Pak of Homeschool in the Woods was very kind to put up all the information anyone would need to create a history timeline. She has a beautiful blank timeline book that you could purchase where all of this is done for you. If I had the money, that is definitely what I’d be buying! I am hoping that we will soon be able to buy the CD of timeline figures from her.

I’ m thinking of dividing up the time periods amongst the three kids. The Georgia Cirriculum uses for example 1860 to present for 5th graders and up to 1860 for 4th graders, but I really don’t like the idea of skipping around. I prefer the idea of learning about history as it happens, to immerse yourself in it. I’ve just got to get my courage up to tell myself - so what if so and so is learning about the American Revolution while our son is learning about Moses! As with most decisions in my life - I’ll just see what direction the butterflies are flying towards today! One thing I am sure about is the first few weeks of timeline keeping will be about dating methods, geological timelines and the whole ‘You can’t beleive everything you read’ discussion that seems to come up an awful lot in our discussions as it is.

If you have a solution that works for you, please don’t hesitate to share it with me. I’m new to this and could use any help out there!

The gallery has blackline maps, historical maps, continents, countries, clip art of every kind, fraction clip art, vegetables, people, photos, anything that you could ask for as a basic clip art library for teaching, it’s there!!!

The gallery extension can be found here.

If you don’t have open office and want to check it out, go here.

In addition to the extension above, you can download an extension for making CAD drawings, a writer’s tool box, a template for writing scripts + many other fun things.

As a homeschool mom just in the throes of historical timeline planning mania, this discovery could not have been made at a better time! Anyone who needs images for teaching, will really appreciate this gallery.

Another great source for cliipart (posted in the comments at open office) is: http://openclipart.org/

THANK YOU TO THE OPEN OFFICE DEVELOPMENT CREW!!!! This Mom sends you a great big kiss!!!
** Addendum 8/24/08 As Rado pointed out - Open Office is free and open source! Definitely a great program!

*addendum: Since adding the link for the gallery, I felt I should also mention two of my other favorite sites:

Really good clipart / worksheet site for those of you who may have not seen it: Scholastic’s Printables

3-D Paper Crafting projects (like making a model of the Syndney Opera House) can be found at: Canon’s Papercraft site.

And here is my favorite picture - especially at week’s end when I’m exhausted. That contentment was all worth it!!!

The first day was heaven! They created our first ever lapbooks. That was alot of fun! I had asked them if they would do a lapbook on what they wanted to learn this year, but they wanted to do presidents. lol. So, they did books for George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. Go Figure! They have minds of their own! The two oldest are taking their CAT tests now. I know, they should have taken it the end of last year, but life happens. They are taking it today and tommorrow while I try to keep the youngest occupied with his own work and QUIET! He’s a little miffed that he didn’t get a test this year too. So, lesson learned, I’ll make budgetary plans to include him next year.

I realized there was a big glaring problem this year, tho. My oldest has been losing confidence, especially as his younger brother has gained a mountain of it the past year. It was never so apparent as when they sat down to take the same test today. Suddenly, things that he could do without a test sheet in front of him, he couldn’t do when taking the test. It wasn’t nervousness about being tested, as he says “I like coloring in the bubbles!”. I think the biggest reason there was such a difference, in addition to sibling competition over the summer break, is that in the past I’ve sat next to each of them while they took the test (each on different days). My oldest thrived on the one-on-one time as he tried to acheive all the “right” answers. My second child thrived on the sheer challenge of taking his first CAT test.

I went to google and typed in “confidence in 10 year old boy”. What came up was a Canadian site, jumpmath.org with an article referencing a book “The Myth of Ability” by John Mighton. After reading about the results of using the Fractions unit, I downloaded everything I could get. I’m grateful for the chance to try it out. It will only take a few weeks to know if this will help him and I’ve made plans after reviewing facts for the next couple of weeks, to try it out on all three boys. After all, we having nothing to lose, especially while we wait on our books!

I did get the first of three boxes from textbooksheaven.org and it wasn’t what I had ordered, altho it will work as a substitute for one child’s language arts program. I wait in angst over what is coming in the other two boxes. They were sent by postal book rate, after they waited on the money from paypal (who took the money from our account and held it for a week before sending it on to textbooksheaven). The missing two shipments have been lingering between Jacksonville, Fla and Atlanta’s distribution center for the last week and a half. I could have driven to Jacksonville and picked them up in one day! Maybe this week, we’ll get box #2!

As for our Saxon Math books that Slo’s mom bought on ebay for us, them nor the seller have been heard from since we placed our order the end of July. It will probably have to be disputed on ebay. The lady received the money (over a $100.00) and never sent a shipping notice and refuses to reply to Slo’s numerous emails. He is sending them daily now. We’ve never disputed, so I don’t know how long that takes before we can get our money back or the books. Hopefully it will resolve itself soon as I need those books like yesterday!

Well, that’s enough of the rocky road travels of the local homeschoolers. If you homeschool grades 3-6, you might like to check out jumpmath.org. There are some really neat games and worksheets included in the curriculum that are equally worth checking out.

Before I took down our home school bulletin boards from last year, I thought I’d ‘pay it forward’ by sharing what we’ve done in the past.

Word Wall - Everyday, I gave them a handful of leaves and apples to write their vocabulary words on. They enjoyed standing on the desk to stick them up each morning. First I used zots, then tape. With the humidity in Georgia and a classroom with no heat and air, zots just don’t stay stuck! Leaves fell by spring. (Rather confusing for a 1st grader! j/k) The wall represents three grade levels: 1st, 3rd and 4th. 3 and 4 had to lookup definitions in the dictionary and the thesarus a few times. Within a few months, the tree was full. I had found the kids, wandering into the classroom on off days and reading the wall to eachother. They liked it alot. If I were to do it again, I’d have them use only large markers and bigger handwriting. It can be hard to see some of the words.

Detail:

This year, I’ve moved the tree to the other side of the room and it will be used for our Explorer / North American History themes. I’m debating actually hanging a swing in the doorway adjacent to the ‘tree’ wall for a “Swing Into History” theme. 3 boys tho - that might be dangerous, lol. Still - it would make a really fun place to read, don’t you think? In any case, I’m glad I spent the money last year for the tree. It’s proving to be pretty versatile and holds up really well. The pre-made leaves were a few dollars tho. When we ran out of those, we just used post-it notes shaped like leaves and apples. I was suprised that they stayed on the tree.

Giants:

Since alot of our study last year included BIG things (dinosaurs, David and Goliath, etc.), we went with a Giant theme above the chalkboards. I had a poster above it - not shown - of Jack and the Beanstalk with the words “This could be the start of something big…” It also helped to spawn discussion about the classifications of things.

The kids traced their hands and feet at the beginning of the year. This week, when I took them down, they re-traced their hands and feet on top of their previous ones. We were really shocked to discover how much more they had grown! It was fun and we’ve decided to do it each year until they are grown - if for nothing else - but Mommy’s baby books. In addition to hands and feet, we keep a marked wall with heights each year and weights.

Math Bath

This one was the first board I tried making a couple of years ago. We liked it so we have kept it. It is made mostly of scrapbooking papers. There are some borders missing because I was in the middle of taking it down to move when Slobo took a pic.

I found the idea online several years ago on a teacher’s website. The elephant is supposed to be stacked on blocks and acting as the shower for the kids in the tub.

The drawings are of the boys from a few years ago. I asked them if I should use them this year and they said they wanted to keep them. They liked the reminder of when they took baths together! The kid drawings are positioned within slits of the tub. I catch my 6 yr. old moving them around and making them talk to one another. lol. This board is now where the tree used to be. There is also a number line that goes above it with a rubber duck that slides along on a bar of soap. They don’t need the number lines anymore, but I thought the duck was too cute to pass up again this year. There are “bubbles”, made of blue laminated paper, velcroed on one side. The number line has a strip of the rougher velcro loops along it and the bubbles were used as manipulatives to position points along the line. The velcro idea might have worked on a stronger wall, but the dots would pull the number line off the wall because the velcro held on so tight. lol. My basement is just 2×4 framing, to which I stapled drapery lining. So I can only ‘attach’ things at studs. You might come up with a better idea for that.

On Saturday, Harry Reed called a special session of the Senate to vote on this bill. Within a moment of opening the session, he called for cloture vote on it. What did that do? It prevented a filabuster from those who opposed it, guaranteeing that it would pass. Within two hours, SURPRISE! They had voted on it and passed it. The President says he will sign it, yet the White House has stated that the signing of this bill won’t be done in a ceremony. It will be done in private. ** Of course it will be! It’s Election Year! Don’t give the American People a chance to run their government! We know what’s best for them!

Update 07/30/2008: The President signed it this morning at 7:31 A.M. on July 29. 2008. Oh Yes, He also had the Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Housing Secretary Steve Preston awake with him! Why didn’t you have the Security Advisor, Mr. President, since it included tracking transactions of every American Citizens? Coward! Thanks again, Harry Reed, Nancy Pelosi and George Bush! One more lost right.

Question? Why are they being so quick to get it passed secretively? Answer: They don’t want the American people to see it for what it really is - just like what they tried to pass as the “Immigration” bill. The American people were able to find all the crap in that one and get it stopped by the skin of our teeth.

Harry Reed learned from his mistakes, and this time tried a different tactic. Harry Reed figured out a way to get it passed - Unethical - ABSOLUTELY! Illegal what he did - NO! WIll the ethics committee do anything? NOT LIKELY! They never do!

So what’s in this bill? It started out as an Energy bill. It was cleverly rewritten as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It’s bad enough they are lying - that’s what they do best. The worst part is the last 60 pages or so of the bill, they are now becoming the American Gestapo!

So, exactly WHO ARE the terrorists that Washington feels they need to track? Seems the worst of them are in Washington!

Want to know what they did? Watch Slobo’s video or read the transcript of it.

* added: Want to see the votes on the bill and the bill in it’s various incarnations? Go Here.

Me up to Way Too Old!

Chronological Pics of The Boys:

J1 up to 10 yrs. old

J2 up to 9 yrs. old

J3 up to 8 yrs. old

Carlos Santana (1947)
Santana is a Mexican-American Grammy Award-winning guitarist known for his searing, emotional playing. He became famous in the late 1960s with his eponymous band that created a highly successful blend of salsa, rock, blues, and jazz. He has sold tens of millions of albums worldwide, was inaugurated into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and has influenced countless musicians. What instrument did Santana play as a boy before switching to guitar? Answer Here

Ahhh, I can hear his guitar in my head now…. Gotta go find my cd! Happy Birthday Santana! I LOVE YOU!!!!

In season are Blueberries and Apples. The bowl below has 1 1/2 gallons of blueberries, just picked Friday….. I wish you could smell them - they are heavenly! As for the apples, they are dropping off of trees everywhere!

Crab-apples, Crab-apples, out in the wood,
Little and bitter, yet little and good!
The apples in orchards, so rosy and fine,
Are children of wild little apples like mine.
The branches are laden, and droop to the
ground;
The fairy-fruit falls in a circle around;
Now all you good children, come gather them up;
They’ll make you sweet jelly to spread when
you sup.
One little apple I’ll catch for myself;
I’ll stew it, and strain it, to store on a shelf
In four or five acorn-cups, locked with a key
In a cupboard of mine at the root of the tree.

—Cicely Mary Barker, THE CRAB-APPLE FAIRY

* from Wild Man Steve Brill’s Website

Today, we make more jelly! Yummmm.

It now has larger text (which I personally appreciate), a cleaner interface and a couple new gizmos. He’s also removed Twitter support for now.

If you have it or want to get it, just go to www.getstuffr.com

The instructions are a best guess only, based on deconstruction, as I haven’t had the time to test it yet. If you find a different, (better) way of doing it, please don’t hesitate to share it with me.

I made this revised pattern group because my husband’s shorts gave out and we couldn’t afford to replace them. These days, dentists and doctors come before mall shopping. When he kept reaching for the side of his thigh one day, I asked him what he was doing. He said he keeps reaching for his beloved pocket, so I found it was necessary to try and add the pocket to his shorts so he won’t feel ‘lost’. Besides, being great practice for pattern making, I discovered how much fun changing up pockets can be! No wonder they look so good!

The original cargo pocket pattern, drafted from Susan Kahlje’s tutorial, does not include the tucks found on these. It’s also smaller, as I used it mainly on my little boys’ clothes.

I hope this helps you to keep your darlings happy too! If you like it, please leave me a comment. Ya’ll just aren’t commenting anymore and I know your’ out there based on my stats! Please feel free to speak up and say hello.

It gets lonely in here.

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I’ve been playing around with pattern drafting again. Unlike the disastrous sleeves two years ago, I’ve now got pants and a bodice - With Sleeves No Less - that fits! WooHoo….. This time, I drafted the pants from Threads magazine - wanting to see how accurate they were - and a foundation top from Moore’s book on pattern making. I had to make several changes for them to fit me, sloping shoulders - sway back - longer stride etc. I also found that my left side is almost a whole 2″’s bigger than my right side! One would think using my right hand on the mouse and calculators these past few years would have hiked my right side up a bit more than that! I’ll just have to walk around like Igor a bit longer, I suppose.

The muslin was cut from a nice stable cotton with a grid print (looks a lot like graph paper. I used wash-able markers to make changes that were needed, changed my block patterns and then sewed it up into a really comfortable pair of pj’s. I had left 1″ S.A.’s all around, so I could add ease for pj’s, used up some pretty trims I had, added a peplum (the short bodice to my short waistline just wasn’t modest enough!) Shameless to say, I just took them off to wash them after 3 days….. I know, but they were so comfortable, I wanted to live in them!!!

Anyway, I’ve been using Open Office’s drawing program to get some of my ‘garment components’ like pockets, collars and misc. facings drafted. I started using Open Office with a pretty Manila folder color printed when my tag board ran out. I’ll add the following under manuals but ’til then, here’s some new schtuff:

1. Page 1 and Page 2 of Table of Aliquot Parts - the handy chart to figure out what 1/4 of 38″ is?

(The vintagesewing.info site has one, as does my Moore’s pattern making book but I needed higher and sometimes lower numbers, so Slobo helped me get an openoffice formula running to formulate it automatically.)

Here is the .ods or Open Office spreadsheet file and the
.xls or Excel spreadsheet file in case ya’ll wanna change things around.

2. Inch to Decimal Equivalent Chart.

The chart comes from seoconsultants.com website. I made it a jpg just for ease of printing. For some reason, the latest version of Firefox doesn’t seem to understand how to print a web page anymore. Until I can get it fixed, and in case others have the same problem, I offer the jpg.

This conversion table is handy when I’m at the Fashion Incubator. When Kathleen gives the measurements for some of her kewl gizmo jigs, welt and paper jig tutorial., I can punch in the measurements (which she so generously provides) and print out a nifty neat little gizmo jig too. One that is much more accurate than I can hand draft especially when she includes those very important measurements like bend allowances.

That’s really all the playing for now. Hopefully in the next few days, I’ll see ya’ll again with some newer - clean - threads on!

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When I told him I was going to post it on my website and call it “How to politely tell someone to go to hell”. He giggled emphatically, skipping away from me, proud of his accomplishments. (Thinks he cleverly disguised a way to say the word Hell in no less than 3 ways while showing me his proud attempts at cursive handwriting and that he remembered his Bible Lesson).

See? The book Yardsticks IS helpful! I got a laugh that will stay with me all day - rather than more worry and bewilderment! His next lesson? How to use a dictionary (After all, how many of us learned to use it at the age when we loved to look up all the “bad” words). Second Lesson: Pride and where it’s helpful and where it hurts! LOL

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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 would have paid twice the retail price! This book was NONE TOO SOON, I tell ya! Slobo and I have been at our wits end to figure out where these burgeoning personalities were headed off to this month! I’ve heard daily, for a month, Slobo’s frustrating “I Don’t Know What Else To DO!” plea!

How often do you hear: “Nobody wants to play with me” “I’m Bored” “He keeps teasing me!!!” Then suddenly “Come-on so-and-so, let’s go such-and-such.” Two seconds later, you hear giggling and plotting - Take a deep sigh - knowing that a second or two later, #3 with come out in tears. They found something to ease their boredom! Child 3 then gets deeply hurt, because the brother that loved him uncoditionally this morning now seems like his worst enemy! How do you explain that to him? Or reprimand the other two in a way that you get more than a quick “Okay - Sowwy”.

I used to think when children behaved this way, it was because they needed more attention from their parents or caregivers. After going under this theory for several months - I can easily state - It has nothing to do with it!!! When you hear, “It’s just their age” beleive it! That doesn’t mean you have to sit back and let nature take it’s course. But this book gave me several ideas for what path they came from and which one they are headed for. It helps you to lead them literally ‘out of temptation’! Just this week, I’ve been able to head all three off for the first time all year! If Chip Wood were here, I’d send him a lifetime supply of blackberry jam!

This book, tho small and concise, is bigger than the “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” series. Picking up where alot of that left off! I highly recommend this book!!!

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What could be more patriotic to start your festivities with today?

Test Pattern #49: The 2 Minute Blackberry Jam from Slobokan on Vimeo.

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After which a beautiful summertime sunset followed:

The trees, grass, buildings, everything - glows around the dark pines. The already dark green evergreens turn to almost black, the green grass turns to a soft brown and the sky casts a warm pink-orange glow against everything. Sometimes, the beautiful turquoise sky shines in between. I LOVE SUMMERTIME IN GEORGIA!

The day after the rain storm:

- Wild Blackberries were ready to be picked!

Today - I MAKE JAM! YUMMM

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