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I’m sure I’ve been forthright about this before, as much as it makes me feel a little bad to say out loud.  (Figuratively speaking.)  But there always moments in time when these things come up, and there is some purpose in being truthful in the matter. Right?

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The Math and Science of OOBLECK!

Posted by Laura on Wednesday Jun 9, 2010 Under Home Schooling, Math, Science

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It wouldn’t be surprising, if many of you have already heard of and made some ‘Oobleck’, with your kids.  Some may know this crazy-fun concoction by another name.  My sister says they call it ‘Goop’.

My kids have indeed made and played with Oobleck before.  I first heard about it at least a… (READ MORE......) | 14 Comments

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Math Games

Posted by Laura on Tuesday Nov 24, 2009 Under Home Schooling

Our three second graders, { J, O & S}, have been working pretty hard in math, lately.  They were getting stuck on a particular concept, and so taking advantage of the perks of home schooling, we didn’t move on in their workbooks until they ‘got it’.  We had some extra long math classes even, working on that concept.  So I decided we needed a little FUN with math… (READ MORE......) | 5 Comments

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Math Boy

Posted by Laura on Sunday Mar 22, 2009 Under Home Schooling

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As I pondered this post I had coming up, I had a vague recollection of blogging something similar before. So I went looking and found this post from almost a year ago; Math Madness and Memorization.  So today’s post is basically talking about the fact that nothing has changed….but merely progressed quite a bit since… (READ MORE......) | 4 Comments

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Math Madness! & Memorization

Posted by Laura on Thursday May 8, 2008 Under Home Schooling

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Our Kindergarteners ( {J} {O} {S} ) have been working on addition and subtraction  in their workbooks throughout this year. Their curriculum had introduced math problems in both numerical sentences, as well as stacked, and as of recently, even in math story problems. Their aid right along has been a number line on the page to… (READ MORE......) | 4 Comments

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