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Amy's Everyday Adventures: Almost Show Time!
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Amy's sporadic linkage, ramblings, and recipes. Hope you enjoy! 4th Grade English - April/May. 4th Grade Math - April/May. School starts this week! We intend to keep to the same school year calendar as the local public school, so that Dino will have the same days off as his friends. That way, he is not stuck "doing school" when the neighborhood kids are on break and want to play. It sounds like Dino's first day this year might set up a first-day tradition like these! He was so excited to get started that...
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Amy's Everyday Adventures: What Students Remember
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Amy's sporadic linkage, ramblings, and recipes. Hope you enjoy! 4th Grade English - April/May. 4th Grade Math - April/May. Today I read this article by Lori Gard on Pursuit of a Joyful Life:. What Students Remember Most About Teachers. In 1st grade, I remember getting gigantic pink plastic-frame glasses, and I remember sitting on carpet squares in the front of my classroom to listen to Mrs. Duvall read. James and the Giant Peach. She would roll in the tall TV cart for us to watch episodes of. Not one of ...
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Amy's Everyday Adventures: Recipe - S'mores Cookies
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Amy's sporadic linkage, ramblings, and recipes. Hope you enjoy! 4th Grade English - April/May. 4th Grade Math - April/May. Recipe - S'mores Cookies. These cookies are loaded with Graham Cracker crumbs, chocolate, and marshmallows! Note: To make graham cracker crumbs, place graham crackers into a large zip-top plastic bag, and use a rolling pin to crush crackers into fine crumbs. 1-1/2 cups finely crushed Honey Graham Crackers. 1/2 cup All-purpose Flour. 2 tsp Baking Powder. 1 tsp Vanilla Extract. Awesome...
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Amy's Everyday Adventures: February 2014
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Amy's sporadic linkage, ramblings, and recipes. Hope you enjoy! 4th Grade English - April/May. 4th Grade Math - April/May. A month or so ago, I prepped a bunch of "freezer meals" - ingredients all chopped and marinated so that we could just pop them into the oven or slow cooker for easy weekday meals. One that I tried was Orange Chicken. The recipe sounded great, it smelled great while it was cooking a few weeks later, and it tasted pretty good that first night! No Then how do you know you don't like it?
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Amy's Everyday Adventures: June 2014
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Amy's sporadic linkage, ramblings, and recipes. Hope you enjoy! 4th Grade English - April/May. 4th Grade Math - April/May. Homeschooling FAQs, Part 4 of 4. What follows is the fourth weekly post with questions that we frequently hear when we say we are going to homeschool. Please leave your questions in the comments section, and there may even be a fifth post! What curriculum are you going to use? We are going to use a variety of resources instead of just one curriculum. So we will do some map studies.
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Amy's Everyday Adventures: March 2014
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Amy's sporadic linkage, ramblings, and recipes. Hope you enjoy! 4th Grade English - April/May. 4th Grade Math - April/May. Inspired by Jono Laynie. Gratefuls for this weekend:. 1 I am grateful for the beautiful warm weather we had on Saturday, and the resulting. 2 dinner outside on the back deck,. 3 sight of hot air balloons flying over our city, and. 4 backyard bonfire and marshmallows with neighbors. 7 and I am grateful to have been a part of it. 11 I am grateful for my incredibly generous and kind hus...
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Amy's Everyday Adventures: Homeschool update
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Amy's sporadic linkage, ramblings, and recipes. Hope you enjoy! 4th Grade English - April/May. 4th Grade Math - April/May. We have been homeschooling for almost 3 months now. While each day has its ups and downs, I would definitely call it a successful adventure! I want to go over what we are doing in each subject:. We started the year using a book called The Life of Fred. Dino has started learning about the United States of America. He is learning to identify each state's location on the map, and he...
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Amy's Everyday Adventures: April 2014
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Amy's sporadic linkage, ramblings, and recipes. Hope you enjoy! 4th Grade English - April/May. 4th Grade Math - April/May. Linkage, Volume 202. The Food Allergy Lifestyle. No, It's Not a Preference. The writer of NeonFresh (formerly NiceGirlNotes) now also has "a website for parents of kids with allergies, asthma, and eczema"! The story he weaves is about two tiny neighboring kingdoms known as Room 2 and. Room 3. Each kingdom houses about 25 citizens. Twice a day these kingdoms merge. Linkage, Volume 201.
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Amy's Everyday Adventures: December 2014
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Amy's sporadic linkage, ramblings, and recipes. Hope you enjoy! 4th Grade English - April/May. 4th Grade Math - April/May. Recipe - Kielbasa Tortellini Soup. I came across this recipe last week for Alton Brown's Christmas Soup. I made something similar on Saturday for a family gathering, and everyone loved it. Here's my version:. 1 pound Kielbasa (also known as Polish Sausage; smoked sausage will also work). 1 tsp vegetable oil. 8 cloves garlic, minced (about 2 Tbs. minced garlic). 2 Tbs red wine vinegar.