Homeschoolhighlites

Head on over to Publications. USA.gov and sign up to receive a free poster entitled “How Do I Become President?” !   A color poster to hang in  your school room during the upcoming election year.  :)

View the poster here: http://www.kids.gov/president/adult_winner.jpg

http://publications.usa.gov/USAPubs.php?PubID=9612

Wanted to share a neat web-site my daughter and I use from time to time.  There are free drawing lessons available to you and your children! You also have several options to take classes for a fee if you wish (we have not).

Visit Drawspace to see the levels of drawing instruction provided.   I think your 7th grader and up would do very well with these lessons.

*Please pre-view the many galleries of member drawings before you let your child look through them.   Occasionally you could find something objectionable in a gallery so I encourage you to either disregard this feature or use with discretion.

I found a great web-site where you can create chore charts for your children for free! The neat part is you can choose different themes for each chart and total customize the chores, colors and days of the week.

http://www.dltk-cards.com/chart/

We made a Veggie Tale chart for Josh’s morning chores.

Summer is a great time to work on daily habits that need to be under control before your new school year begins!

Whip this up in 5 minutes and keep them happy for a whole hour!

1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup salt
1/2 cup water
1/2 tablespoon oil
1/2 tsp cream of tartar

a drop of food coloring

Mix all but the last ingredient in a small saucepan. Cook over a very low heat until it turns into a dough – don’t leave it, it’ll will stick to the bottom of the pan! Knead the dough until cool enough for kids to touch. Add a few drops of coloring and knead until evenly mixed.

I have the kids ‘work’ on a plastic place mat at the table.  Just add some toothpicks, little toys, dull knife and let the creativity happen!

I’m having difficulty finding time to blog along with all the other things we homeschooling mommies have to do! Homekeeping along with Homeschooling is quite the balancing act!

 I’m really excited about finishing up our school year in about a month or so (Jordan and Jesse have finished some subjects already) and having a bit more free time to tackle all my house projects on the back burner as well as return to blogging.  With the HSB upgrade right around the corner,  I’m thinking our wonderful community here will be a buzz and it sure will be fun linking up with many new like minded moms.  =)