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Weekly Wrap Up – living life offline

September 30, 2011 By

Living life offline you enjoy God’s beautiful nature and a few man-made bonus features …

 Living life offline you have more time to hug, kiss, and tickle – and make silly faces before church!

Living life offline you can make brownies together and watch them crack their 1st egg !

Living life offline you can enjoy sunsets and more cuddles !! Don’t we look comfy?! (no amount of pageviews can trump this moment)
Living life offline you can go to museums …

 Living life offline you can be a bump IN a log and learn about bugs!

 Living life offline you get to meet up with local homeschoolers on field trips!

Living life offline you can meet up with gals you’ve met online …

I think social media can be wonderful, but not at the expense of my boys.  Living life ONline – we tend to have more … disobedience because boys start acting out for attention, missed opportunities – cause life doesn’t wait, piled up chores (please don’t go look at my sink), running late to every offline commitment, I’m easily frustrated cause I’m usually interrupted, and always distracted cause I’m thinking of “what’s next”.

and for what??  What online time can fill your my Jesus heart full more so than the beautiful blessings HE has given me?!  

Is social media and always accessible “friends” the cure for low self esteem?  Or a selfish distraction?!  At what point will I be able to walk away from my computer because it does not fill me full as much as time with my children?

I love what my friend Eryn wrote this week on twitter (and klout is a ridiculous not serious way of ranking popular twitter accounts and is completely random – yet folks are tripping over themselves to get their numbers higher – anything to be mentioned and affirmed):

 eryn hall 
My kids, when grown, will never boast about their mom’s klout score. They will, howevr, brag on my mad swing-pushing skills. “Higher!” :)

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In other news … I am participating in the 31 Days series starting Oct 1st and I’ve picked 31 Days of Bible Women.  I’m very excited looking forward to some great character qualities and some not so great character qualities I feel are put in the bible so we can all learn!  Join me at steflayton.com - I’m not going to be online promoting this a ton – I’m praying God brings the women he wants to read it!

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Use Dry Erase Boards for a Perfectionist Homeschooler

September 28, 2011 By
For whatever reason a dry erase board gives a bit of peace to the perfectionist.
My son’s desk is a drafting table hubs used during his first years on the job drawing golf courses.  The boy loves the ability to write directly on the desk – especially for our All About Spelling curriculum – drawing – measuring – and working dry erase marker side by side.
What he loves most is the eraser availability.  No red marks declaring his work forever “WRONG”.  My son is a 1st born perfectionist.  We’ve had to postpone lessons because of the dreaded red X  that always brought on tears.
You do not need to have a super huge dry erase board – although my friend Jenn’s dry erase WALL is super cool!  There are plenty of smaller hand held boards you can find at Target !  Your younger ones will also love coloring on it too !
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Top Ten Ways to Make Math Fun

September 26, 2011 By

Are you looking to Make Math Fun?

Top Ten {Tuesday}
Surprisingly “math” and “fun” can go in the same sentence – even though I deplore math, we can still make it fun – and part of that is shelving the book!  My visual / tactile learner needs more than worksheets to comprehend Math facts.

Make Math Fun

  1. shelf the books and play Yahtzee
  2. shelf the books and play cards – games like gin or rummy are great for big addition
  3. shelf the books and break the piggy bank – roll coins
  4. shelf the books and play with a real clock
  5. shelf the books and get out the measuring tape – write down a list of objects to measure
  6. shelf the books and get to weighing – weigh fruit at the grocery store is fun
  7. shelf the books and use toys (legos, dinosaurs, power rangers, whatever work on subtraction facts)
  8. shelf the books and get cooking – tons of measurement opportuntities in the kitchen
  9. shelf the books and go bowling – set up some water bottles have kiddos keep score
  10. shelf the books and make your own fractions – pizza pies, cut apples, puzzle pieces, and other tangible objects help a visual / tactile learner.

It takes a little creativity, a little fun – but it’s worth it to Make Math Fun for our homeschoolers.

What are you doing to Make Math Fun?

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