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Adventures in MamaLand: What My Children Learned Today
Geocaching doesn’t work. We went straight to the exact coordinates, I swear! I have a witness; I went with a friend who found out about this cache and everything (screenshot at left indicating that, according to my Playbook, we were within inches of...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 4:37pm -07:00T (404 words)
 
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Adventures in MamaLand: Death and Taxes – not hand in hand after all…
I won’t go on at length, because my blog is “niche” enough already, but I have been dreading signing up to self-publish on CreateSpace (an Amazon company) because I’d heard that they withhold tax at a rate of 30% for foreign people. (Apparently, ...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 12:22pm -07:00T (441 words)
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Adventures in MamaLand: Shameless self-promotion (aka “Buy my books – I’ve made it easy”!)
I have just shifted a bunch of books from Lulu to Amazon, as well as making a couple of new ones available that were sitting in the “almost ready to go live” hopper. They all have “Look Inside!” enabled, but the last two are newly added, and will ...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 12:22pm -07:00T (282 words)
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Adventures in MamaLand: Two new curricula
What?! Adding curricula? Am I nuts? Well, first things first. Naomi finished the Explode the Code series a month or so ago and I wanted to move her into a series of phonetically rule-based spelling books. Except I couldn’t find any that were no-nons...
Dateline: 2013-06-12 6:52pm -07:00T (1433 words)
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Adventures in MamaLand: If wishes were fishes…
(Or, how I secretly want to continue homeschooling once we arrive in Israel… but you knew that already, didn’t you?) I wasn’t sure where to post this, and actually began posting it to my aliyah blog, but decided it was more homeschooly, so now I’m...
Dateline: 2013-06-12 5:37pm -07:00T (888 words)
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Adventures in MamaLand: Inconsistencies, rainbows and lobster-eaters
One of the things I have always prided myself on, as a parent, is consistency. What I mean, I say, and what I say, I mean, and those things rarely change over time. The negative flipside of this is that I have been accused of obstinacy, but there you g...
Dateline: 2013-06-10 9:22pm -07:00T (988 words)
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Adventures in MamaLand: Did you know? Jewish Student’s Book of the Centuries for History study
Nearly 3 years ago, with great trepidation, I released my first printable that wasn’t free: a Book of Centuries. More heavily influenced by Charlotte Mason then than I am now, I wanted my kids to do this instead of a timeline because a) our house is t...
Dateline: 2013-06-04 12:23pm -07:00T (866 words)
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Adventures in MamaLand: One more parsha resource… (Targum Onkelos, Aramaic translation)
Somebody at the homeschool conference (maybe it was Rabbi Dr. Pinchas Hayman? but I’d hate to misquote somebody) pointed out that learning Parsha with Onkelos (Onkelos was a well-known convert most famous for his “Targum” or translation of the Torah...
Dateline: 2013-06-04 11:07am -07:00T (216 words)
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Adventures in MamaLand: FREE Parsha Skills Worksheets – Chukas
Doing this early because a) we’re going away, and b) it’s not too hard to do these when I’m on a roll. Next week’s 6-page workbook focuses on the following Hebrew / English words: הִכָּה- hitיָד - handסֶּלַע - rockרוּם - raise...
Dateline: 2013-06-03 7:23pm -07:00T (223 words)
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Adventures in MamaLand: FREE Parsha Skills Worksheets – Korach
This week’s 6 pages of worksheets focus on the following Hebrew / English words: פָּתַח - openedפֶּה - mouthבָּלַע - swallowedאָדָּם - man, personקרַֹח - Korachרְכוּשׁ - possession, stuffאֵת - [not in English!]אֲש...
Dateline: 2013-06-02 10:38pm -07:00T (180 words)
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Adventures in MamaLand: Spiderman vs the Math Frogs (a small math lesson in humility)
Just in case we needed more reminders that what works for one kid does NOT work for others… with Naomi Rivka, manipulatives were the thing for math. What she sees when she sees the math frogs is “MATH frogs.” They helped her concretize, see it, fe...
Dateline: 2013-05-30 7:52pm -07:00T (865 words)
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Adventures in MamaLand: Parsha Skills Worksheets – Shelach
Haven’t done one of these in a good while, but at least I have come up with a catchy name for them: Parsha Skills Worksheets (click to see previous worksheets). My goal with these is to introduce some basic Chumash vocabulary and grammar (to kids AND t...
Dateline: 2013-05-30 6:37pm -07:00T (343 words)
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Adventures in MamaLand: Impressions Part III – Torah Home Ed Conference, the sessions
First of all, one of my biggest happy impressions – as always, when speaking to homeschoolers in the US – was, thank goodness I live in Canada! While other people talk about curriculum and reporting and consulting and government interference and acco...
Dateline: 2013-05-29 9:22pm -07:00T (2290 words)
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Adventures in MamaLand: Impressions Part II – Torah Home Ed Conference
Oy, vey! Vendors, Curriculum, Yay! I’ve already posted about everything BUT the conference. Turns out, there is just too much to say to put even the conference stuff into a single post. So I’ll start with what seemed to me the biggest difference fr...
Dateline: 2013-05-27 7:53pm -07:00T (1984 words)
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Adventures in MamaLand: The Family Torah: BUY MY BOOK! (and an FAQ)
Never rains but it pours, and after weeks of neglecting this blog, I have poured my heart out today, trying to capture all my impressions of the homeschool conference before they’re gone. But I do want to stop for a minute and ask readers to consider b...
Dateline: 2013-05-27 7:53pm -07:00T (817 words)
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