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Mar 23, 2009

We Made the Play Dough This Weekend! Play Dough Recipe Great for Home Schooling

We made the play dough and it was easy, I never made the cooked play dough before and I only made the uncooked kind once. We followed the best play dough recipe let it cool and then I divided it in half, I had my son pick the food colores he wanted then I needed the drops of food coloring in with the play dough until it was well blended. The kids love it and the texture is great, it is not sticky and it works great!

I just wanted to tell you about it, I am definitely going to make this again!

Tell me what you think!

Mar 20, 2009

What is Unschooling? Home Schooling

Unschooling forum, Happy Homeschooers group at Cafemom.com Have you heard about unschooling?

It is a form of home schooling except the child learns what they are interested in the most.The child has the freedom to learn what they love, many people still incorporate standard book work with this while others may not.

For us we have the workbooks we do for math reading and spelling but everything else we just do what ever we are into and my son has so many questions and wants to know everything so we look things up learn about the holidays as they come up go to the library and get books to answer the questions my son has.

My kids learn reading, writing and spelling with work books but every thing else they learn the most from coloring pages, talking, reading books, asking questions and figuring things out!

One day my son wants to know about dinosaurs so we read a book and discus it the next day it may be something else or we can spend a whole week on one subject.

I consider us half unschooling and half home schooling I am training my kids for life and entrepreneurship not a JOB or to be like every one else. I could not accomplish this sending my kids to a school. I think structure is very important but freedom and knowledge to do and learn what you want is what America and Life is all about!, I like the fact that my kids don't go to school we just have a Passion for learning!  I would like to go unschool when my children have reached the teen years after the 8th grade mark.

Children are naturally curious learners! We need to provide them with an environment that is conducive to that natural ability to learn. Children also learn best when education is not forced on them and will learn when placed in a educational environment not a school.

Unschoolers typically don't use curriculum, tests, especially state testing. Parents are not teachers they are facilitators and only assist the child in learning what the child wants to learn. Education is not forced but done freely, naturally and at the child's lead. They don't use grades or other titles invented by schools that refer to the stage in education the child is at. In unschooling there are no stages of education like grades the child just learns at his own pace. Here are some quotes to help you understand unschooling even more.

To unschool your kids you do have to follow your states home school laws at Getting Started Homeschooling.


“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ~ Albert Einstein


“When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.” ~ Jean Piaget


“There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.” ~ William Glasser


“Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.” ~ Lillian Smith


“None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.” ~ Buckminster Fuller


“All the time you are in school, you learn through experience how to live in a dictatorship.” ~ Grace Llewellyn

See  this fun post called Famous Home Schoolers

Mar 19, 2009

Easy Play Dough Recipe

Kids Love Play Dough And It Is Super Easy To Make!

The secret ingredient is cream of tartar. This recipe makes play dough that is not grainy like uncooked play dough and keeps for a long time.

Play Dough

4 cups flour
1 cup salt
4 cups water
4 tablespoons oil
1/2 cup cream of tartar

Mix all ingredients in a sauce pan. Cook and stir over low/medium heat until play dough is completely formed and no longer sticky.

Allow to cool slightly before storing in an air tight container or zip lock bag.

Mar 18, 2009

A Irish Blessig for You!

Chatt with me at Cafe Mom
Hello I hope you had a Great St Patricks Day! We read some great stories and listened to Celtic music which I love, it is so happy! Today we had a good day and my kids and I are learning Latin, I feel language is a very important part of our life and we must have a good understanding of it. Our English Language comes from Latin and many other languages as well. I need to get some good curriculum for this and we will have fun learning with it.


I hope this post finds you and family well, please comment on my posts let me know what you think!


I Leave you with this Irish Blessing:
May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you wherever you go. --Irish Blessing



To Your Families Success!
Thanks You!

Mar 17, 2009

Happy St Patricks Day!

St Patricks Day, Irish recipes Irish Soda Bread Recipe
Ingredients : 2 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup sugar, plus additional for sprinkling on top 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup raisins 1 teaspoon caraway seed 1 egg approximately 1/2 cup buttermilk (or soured milk)

Preparation :
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.In a bowl, mix together flour, salt, sugar, baking soda and baking powder. Cut in butter, then add raisins and caraway seed. Break egg into a measuring cup and add enough buttermilk to equal 3/4 cup. Add the egg mixture to the flour. Mix until blended and knead dough. Shape into one large or two small rounds. Make a cross on top with a knife and drizzle with melted butter. Sprinkle lightly with sugar. Bake in a greased iron skillet, or on a greased cookie sheet, until golden (approximately 30 minutes).


Mar 13, 2009

How to Raise a Healthy Child In Spite of Your Doctor, GET THIS BOOK!

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He instructs parents how to diagnose and treat their children without medical intervention, how to determine if their child is sick enough for a doctor, and how to recognize the correct medical treatments.

He teaches you how doctors/hospitals make healthy kids sick and how to protect your self and children from them!

This book is a common sense care of children which puts YOU the parent in CONTROL of your children's health! I love this book and have read it and am reading it again I would get this into the hands of every parent if I could you got to get this book and it makes a great gift.





















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