In middle school, I took a life skills class. My two big takeaways came from two wildly different activities. First, and the reason I took the course, for two weeks we carried around a sandbag baby. I remember seeing the kids carrying them, and how they decorated them, and found … [Read more...]
Time out for some Christmas freebies I found
The best lessons in middle school (aside from days you saw the TV cart) were the days your teacher gave you a themed packet related to the current holiday. It happened all the time in elementary school, not so much in middle school, and I certainly don't remember it in high … [Read more...]
Help for all my kids in math
Each month I give my kids a challenge. I print off the monthly calendar from over at Math Geek Mama (looks like it’s currently only in her membership site, but I’ll have an update on that in a few weeks). The idea behind it is to solve each day’s problem. But that is too easy in … [Read more...]
Fun Quick Math Counting Game
Sometimes in your homeschool math lessons you need a quick easy game to get the point across. This was part of our homeschool Christmas lessons, but that's only because I had Christmas stickers. It could just as easily have been dogs, I have lots of dog … [Read more...]
Bringing the Fun back into math
Going into middle school I hated math. I didn’t have a particular reason to hate math, I just knew “Kids hate math.” I even knew a song about the great evils of math. Then in sixth grade I had a math teacher who not only loved math, but she made math fun. Every week she gave us … [Read more...]
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