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Passing forward links…

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I think it was homeschooling mom who gave me this sites so I’m just passing them along.

GeekMom has this neat way of helping students gain map knowledge.

families on the road.

The purpose of the roadschooling pages is not to duplicate the hundreds of thousands of homeschooling sites and resources that are already available. But to arm those who live and work with their kids on the road with educational resources, no matter what form of homeschooling your family prescribes to.

Sixty Symbols. Videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy.

The History Game Canada

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I have to admit, this really intrigues me….

It’s the history game Canada.

AND you can even download it for free!
from the FAQ

The History Game Canada is a mod pack for Civ3 Conquest v1.22 and Civ3 Complete that is based on the History of Canada. It is intended as a playable fun addition to the Civilization game with a wealth of custom Canadian content. It’s very much a game of ‘What if …?”; where players can toy with outcomes, now etched in history, but once hanging in the balance. It explores the parameters of history rather than the events, and allows players to live questions like … ”What if the Huron had displaced the 5 Nations Confederacy rather than the other way around?”; or “What if the French had retained Canada, and the English colonies to the East and South had failed to prosper?”
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You’ll need a copy of Civilzation III Conquests (patched to version 1.22) or a copy of Civilization III Complete. Then you just have to download and install the game pack, check out the videos and resources on the website, and get started.

Sketch Tuesday Artwork – something that begins with “R”

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This week’s assignment. Draw something that begins with “R”


I thought hmmm.. something that begins with R… what in the world can I draw that begins with an R? Rolling pin came to me in church this morning.. and I seriously thought about it… but curves not so good at them… hmmm… okay, let’s continue thinking… I ended up doing a roof. seemed simple enough. Justin’s verdict “pretty good for a beginner”. 🙂 But then he had to finish the rest of the building. 🙂


Justin’s R word.
let me explain this one. I thought he might like to do a picture of a rabbit but I wanted it to be HIS idea, so I started him giving him “R” words. Roof, rat, ribbit, etc (thinking he’d say rabbit). He got captured by the idea of how do you draw a sound? So…he drew the sound waves of a frog saying “ribbit”. 🙂

As always, they’ll be published on Tuesday at Harmony Mom Sketch Tuesday’s site.

Free Language Lessons

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FSI language Courses

Welcome to fsi-language-courses.org – the home for language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain. This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely available in an electronic format. This site is not affiliated in any way with any government entity; it is an independent, non-profit effort to foster the learning of worldwide languages. Courses here are made available through the private efforts of individuals who are donating their time and resources to provide quality materials for language learning.

Terrific Tigers – Day Two

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Today the lad and I worked on Day Two of the unit study from Download N Go on Terrific Tigers. We worked on Day one last week. This is a unit study that can also be done as a lap book. Should you purchase it, make sure you don’t miss doing the lap book nifty stuff (I missed it from day one and went back to do it). yes… sometimes I miss the obvious stuff….

The lad had a good time learning more about tigers. Today’s focus was on the Bengal Tiger. He dictates the answers to me and I write them down. Sometimes we need to read things a few times before he gets the answers and sometimes he surprises me by knowing the answers even before I read the article to him. Go figure. 🙂

We enjoyed looking at the cat stuff at the zoo. We didn’t see the tigers on the zoo cam, but we did look at the lion cubs when they had their first check up. This elicited a lot of questions from the lad.

We made this tiger craft from DLTK. He pasted on the head and the body, the fiddliness of the rest required asking Mommy to help with the rest.

We learned about what mammals are and all sorts of other things. The unit study comes LOADED with links. Some are a bit above the level of a five year old, and other things are pretty much where he is at. Means that sometimes I rephrase things, which isn’t all that hard to do. 🙂

I don’t think this link was part of the study (but I could be wrong), but the lad had fun doing the backyard animals game found there.

It’s a well made study, covers a variety of age ranges, I expect in three years or so we’d be able to do this study again. Anyways, this is a good study, well worth the dollars spent on it. 🙂