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One Year Closer to 40!

by Sue on January 26, 2012

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In my life this week…

Well, I turned another year older this past Monday…..or as my husband loves to tease, “One year closer to 40!”

Isn’t that mean?

Luckily, he made up for his teasing by bringing me home a box full of the cutest little mini bunt cakes from my all time favorite cake shop, Nothing Bunt Cakes.

Yumm-O!

Having that wonderful little shop here in AZ almost makes up for the evil, venomous scorpions & suffocating dust storms that I’m forced to endure living here in the vast Sonoran Desert each year.

Almost. ;)

In our homeschool this week…

This was our first week experimenting with listening to an audio book while my son read along, and it was a great success!

I know that we might not always get so lucky to find free audio files on YouTube with all of the parts spoken by actors like we did for The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis this week, but I think that this may definitely help my son with his reading speed & comprehension issues in the future.

I’ll let you know if we have as much success with book number two week after next.

Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…

Did you see the free membership offer for Homeschool Legal Advantage over on Hip Homeschool Moms this week?

They’re having a little birthday celebration of their own this week and are sharing a year’s worth of free legal servies to any homeschool families that may need it.

What a nice gift!

My favorite thing this week was…

My family was eating dinner last night, when all of the sudden my son hollers out, “Hey look…it’s Arizona!”  He then held up his corn chip over the table for us to see his fun geographical find.

We spent the rest of dinner rummaging through the Tostido’s bag hunting for the rest of the Union, but sadly we only turned up a very sad, salty looking Rhode Island and a half-cracked Illinois.

Which state does this look like to you?

What’s working/not working for us…

I was really looking forward to getting this great-looking book from the Classical Conversations bookstore called, Words Aptly Spoken – an introduction to literary classics to aid my son and I in our discussions about the books he’s reading this semester and was kind of disappointed when I found out that there are no answers included in the book at all.

Not only are there no answers in my book, there are no answers in ANY of the other Words Aptly Spoken books as far as I can tell.

Don’t you just hate that?

I understand the need for discussion and discovery and I’m totally sold on the entire classical enchilada, but come on…give a homeschool mom a break!

Grrrrrr. :(

Questions/thoughts I have…

We were so lucky to find free audio files for my son’s reading assingment this week, but as I look ahead to the coming months, I am going to need to find a few more audio books other than the one I stumbled across on YouTube this week.

By any chance, do any of you know a good resource for FREE audio books or mp3 downloads online?

I found The Secret Garden on iTunes U, but am still on the hunt for free audio files for Number The Stars, The Bronze Bow, The Door in the Wall, and Amos Fortune-Free Man.

Any suggestions???

A photo, video, link, or quote to share…

Isn’t this the cutest little mini bunt cake you’ve ever seen?

It was D-licious!

mini cake

 

Happy Homeschooling,




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