Adventures In Our World – call for submissions
Passed on…
Adventures In Our World would like to invite you to send things in to be published. We are now taking the following things for the next issue!
Stories
Jokes
Drawings
Photographs
Calendar reminders, including birthdays and anniversaries
Recipes
Poems
Book Club stuff
Top Picks stuff
Class information
Event information
Meeting information
Homeshool Friendly business ads
**if you have an idea or suggestion just let us know and we’ll contact the business.
Announcements
Or just about anything else you would like to add!
All regions/states are welcome!
We now have a section for each state/region for
announcements, class, ads and meetings. You are able to access this area through the Parent Directory. The Kid’s Directory will stay the same.
We also take Parent submissions for stories, jokes and etc.
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English teachers nationwide share their analogies & metaphors
Passed on from another homeschooler:
Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their
collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school
essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of
teachers across the country. Here are last year’s winners:
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides
gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances
like underpants in a dryer without Cling free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a
guy who went blind because he lo oked at a solar eclipse without one of
those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country
speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar
eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was
room-temperature Canadian beef.
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes
just before it throws up.
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.
8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated
because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a
surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.
9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
bowling ball wouldn’t.
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag
filled with vegetable soup.
11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an
eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city
and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when
you fry them in hot grease.
14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across
the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having
left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka
at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences
that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.
16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who
had also never met.
17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was
the East River.
18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap,
only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil,
this plan just might work.
21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not
eating for awhile.
22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either,
but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land
mine or something.
23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender
leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
with power tools.
25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells,
as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
Spelling.org – The name says it all
Recommendation:
AVKO Educational Research Foundation A non-profit
organization devoted to helping teachers, parents, and researchers since 1974
AVKO comes from Audio, Visual, Kinesthetic, & Oral a multi-sensory
approach
FREE on – www.spelling.org . All 62 chapters of THE TEACHING OF
READING & SPELLING: A CONTINUUM FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH COLLEGE.
Definitions of dyslexia in plain English. – Sample lessons from Sequential
Spelling. – Try before you buy
ScribblingWomen.org – American women’s literature
Another great recommendation from another:
Scribbling Women, a project of The Public Media Foundation, dramatizes stories by American women writers for national radio broadcast. This site provides classroom resources for teaching the rich tradition of American literature by women.
KeyIngredients.org – food education website
A homeschool mom recommendation from one of the groups I belong to:
Travel through 500 years and from coast
to coast as you explore how Americans grow, prepare, and serve foods. Through
this activity, you will discover how American cuisine is a product of both our
regional uniqueness and international diversity.http://www.keyingredients.org/default.asp
The exhibit is traveling across the U.S.
There is a curriculum guide and list of locations to see it.
FreeHomeschoolSoftware.com – just get on their list for updates!
FreeHomeschoolSoftware.com - a list every homeschool family should me on!
I remember people talking about Reader Rabbit before; and this week’s
“finds” include 2CD-packs for $1.
Let’s Get Ready for Kindergarten!
Let’s Get Ready for Kindergarten!
My intention was to browse and catch a glimpse of what this book had to offer, but the girls’ attentions were sparked! I was not allowed to take it away from them until we finished every single page, as the fundamental lessons were challenging to each of them on different levels. For example, our toddler enjoyed recognizing her letters, shapes, and colors. She participated in the lessons as long as her tired eyes would allow, until she finally fell asleep among her sisters’ excitement. Our preschooler followed her kindergarten-sister’s lead and loved every minute of our family time together.
The next day the girls picked up the book themselves and our kindergartener acted as a teacher and asked our preschooler questions, like I did the previous night. They proudly shared their new discoveries (beyond the obvious lessons on each page), such as spotting one of the Cedar Valley Kids ™, Mrs. Good’s new glasses, and finding where the Hippo was hiding. There are still little surprises now after one week that I’m surprised we haven’t lost out initial excitement yet.
My girls and I are absolutely hooked on dry-erase books, because they feel empowered to participate in the lesson. Rather than getting bored by re-doing the pages, they feel compelled to prove themselves “right” each day.
Interactive activities such as the big-play-phone caused our kindergartener to memorize our number in minutes. Even though I have our phone number written throughout the house, and tried to teach her on our tiny cordless phone-keypad or our toy-phones, each teaching aid was not realistic enough for her to practice on. But by repeating and “pressing” the numbers in this book, caused her to reach our goal almost immediately.
Now, half-way through our kindergartner year as a homeschool family, there’s’ only a couple of lessons we do not have perfected. This book acted as a great “test” as to where we stand.
Mrs. Good and the Cedar Valley Kids™ are adorable and all the illustrations are outstanding! We look forward to “Growing with the Cedar Valley Kids” ™.
I have no doubts that our preschooler will be complete with this book by her fifth birthday, ready to work side-by-side with her First Grade-sister. We eagerly await the new release.
Linda and Stacey receive The Sabra Girls’ high-fives, screeching cheers, and complete endorsement.
