Tag: "Entertainment"
African Cats coming to theatres everywhere on April 22nd
Note: No, we do NOT celebrate Earth Day. Every day is “Earth Day” in this proud natural, green-is-for-Islam, homeschooling Muslim mobile home, garden…home is where ever we are as long as our intentions and actions are with Allah, subhanallahu wa T’ala/May He be Glorified. My girls have been telling me all about new commercials about [...]
Quassy Amusement Private Homeschool Day Event
Quassy Amusement Park in Middlebury, CT will stage their very first Homeschool Day at the lakeside property in 2 weeks! My girls and I are SO excited about bringing this fantastic learning event to your attention; and we look forward to sharing this experience with as many happy homeschoolers as possible! I just got off [...]
Toledo Home Education League of Parents
We had a blast on Monday at the Toledo Home Education League of Parents (H.E.L.P.)’s Not-Back-To-School Picnic! Fox News showed up [we missed the 4pm broadcast ], we took pictures of the 30+ kids who actually stood still for a minute. [ At the busiest time, there had to be at least 50 kids. ] [...]
Home Depot’s Kid’s Workshop
Home Depot’s Kid’s Workshop is postponed for the holiday weekend. Re-scheduled for Saturday, September 10th. Enjoy the long weekend!
Hurricane Katrina – lessons to learn
Hurricane Katrina is truly a tragic natural disaster! Although are girls are all under 5 years old, there’s many lessons to learn: 1. Geography: We started learning from the Rookie Read-About Geography series just the day before Hurricane Katrina. Great books! Check them out right now! 2. Science. How and where hurricanes form, weather differences [...]
Fossil Park. Let’s barter for a piece of your backyard!
Fossil Park in Sylvania, Ohio is less than 3 miles from us, and in the convenience of practically being in our own backyard we were able to travel back 375 million years ago when Northwest Ohio was a great sea teeming with life. I’m trying to find any good links for you to experience how [...]
Ready, Set, Read! Target & RIF.
John Kremer’s Open Horizon Book Marketing Blog pointed out Target.com’s Ready, Set Read website. 12 tips…but, stay posted, the website is sure to blossom. I just completed the RIF (Reading Is Fundamental) Summer Reading Challenge for our 5 year old. Ages 5 and up, children must have read a certain amount of hours during the [...]
Recommendations for Beginning Readers
So, everyone rants and raves about the Bob Books, by Bobby Lynn Maslen , but the girls and I are not taking too well to them. So, through trail and error…here’s what we came up with as our recommended starting points for Beginning Readers. Please share your opinions and recommendations in the comments section below…we’re [...]
It’s a Girl-Thang!
As I absolutely love blogging…I had to find a whole new voice, direction, and focus for us, as we make our “official” first-year’s journey through homeschooling here in the state of Ohio. ..Toledo to be more specific. As I see huge difference in my raising girls than I would if I had boys…this changed our [...]
Being an American Girl (TM) Rocks!
So, this house of chicks may be a little behind the 8-ball…but we were just introduced to American Girl (TM) collection. The last Sunday of each month at 2pm here at the Barnes & Noble on Monroe Street, they host an American Girls Club, which is a young girls’ reading club. Each month they discuss [...]
Toledo has the Best Summer Reading Program!
Toledo Public Library has the best Summer Reading Program. Since we’re 2 weeks behind from our vacation, we’re quickly catching up on lost tracked-time. We constantly read…even during vacation, but I didn’t think of tracking the hours, books and their authors. Nonetheless, we finished 5 hours each for the week and got our coupon sheet [...]
Free Saturday Craft Clinics
Yesterday was a blast! 10 am : Lowe’s. We made the Lowe’s nascar race car. Second Saturday of each month from 10am – 12 noon. 11 am : Home Depot. We built a periscope. First Saturday of each month from 9am – 12 noon. 1pm – 3pm: Toys R Us. Camp Geoffrey. We colored with [...]
Kindergarten at Home
This is such an exciting time for me and the girls. Here’s some starting points, thanks to my dear friend and homeschool mentor, as she completed an extremely successful Kindergarten year with her daughter: Free Homeschool Tracker program Car schooling Alphabet Coloring Books Learning Pages They’re screaming in the background and we have a full-day [...]
Library Movies and DVDs
Should public libraries charge for the rental of movies and DVDs? Check out the debate: Libraries increase DVDs stacks, add fees for movie watchers. Now are some people just chosing to be cheap…and not renting elsewhere, taking away from the public’s right to free educational and entertaining resources of those who can NOT afford the [...]
Potty-training & more
Woo hoo…our youngest pooped and peed in her training potty today. She actually enjoyed hangin out there and giving high-fives to everyone too. She’s 20 months old. Our 4 year-old figured out addition and subtraction herself. It was way cool. She said, “Mama there’s five of us and when Baba goes to China (where he [...]
