Our scrapbook: Fun and learning this week
We spent a lot of time outside, doing cool stuff, in April 2012. Here are some photos of our fun.
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5 ways to constructively deal with your kids’ mood swings
How do you deal with your kids’ mood swings, meltdowns or temper tantrums? Here are 5 coping strategies to help you turn things around.
Making robots out of recycling… and Legos!
As part of our study of robots, we made some (nonworking) models out of Legos and recycled boxes.
What NOT to do when you start homeschooling: 5 things I learned
We might not be expert homeschoolers, but we know what NOT to do when you start homeschooling. Here are the top 5 things to avoid, as we learned in our first couple months of homeschooling!
Happy 12th birthday, Sarah! A look at last week, and a look ahead
March 24, 2012, was our daughter Ashar’s 12th birthday. We celebrated with cookie cake and visit to a local lake!
Blogging about geography and old books with dad (and a very temporary mohawk)
A 1920 geography textbook led to an amazing project for Ashar and Chris, involving analysis from Native Americans to the Amish.
Spelling, shopping and a found bird’s nest
Spelling practice? The only “spelling list” in our house is our grocery list, but that works well!
Our scrapbook: Cookie-making with Dad
Chris and Ashar made chocolate-chip-mint cookies for a 4-H meeting and talked about baking and volcanoes.
Triops, Celtic Nights and Ashar’s own blog
Want to have some live prehistoric pets? Grow your own triops. We did. They’re kind of cool… in a crustacean-like way.
Our Leap Day leap into homeschooling
Welcome to Unschool Rules, the Conciliottoman family’s radical unschooling blog. We made the leap-day leap into homeschooling Feb. 29, 2012, and love it.