Just what exactly is a green toilet?

Everything is going "green", but I still have no idea. But, I do now know what it takes to repair a "won't quit running" toilet! It was a $7 kit from Low*'s. So for my dad's birthday, I bought the necessary kit and went to work. Now for those of you who know me, you know this is right up my alley! I'd share a list of skills I've acquired, but that would be boring. The toilet repair job didn't go perfectly either! I only report the good results. How's that for fair handed reporting! This is my blog, and I'll share if I want to, share if I want to...

What would be fun is if I tell you what I discovered while I wasn't at FPEA. A blog that I found through Math on the Level is found here.The author creates and sells PDF files to be used to print index cards for your homeschool and it also contains documents that tell you how to use the index cards to do everything from teach the material to play games and review the material. It encouraged me to create things daily for my first year registered homeschooler (I'd call him a kindergartner, but he's about to turn 6 and it just doesn't make sense to call him a first grader either!).

I'm also waiting for my copy of "26 Phonics Games Kids Can't Resist". L will make the games for M and in the process review/learn phonics I never knew how to teach him. Since I mentioned it, Math on the Level is a complete math program for beginning math lessons through pre-algebra. They describe it much better, but you have all the teacher's materials required bound in several volumes and organized by skill type. You are given all you need to teach your 4 yo how to count coins and your pre-teen how to add up the value of the coins said 4 yo counts all on the same page. Besides all that concise instruction information they include a really cool way to keep track of your child's math progress. It will be what I use to track all the manipulative activities I am planning to use this year!

Last year we studied Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day. This year we will study the human body using the Usborne Science Encyclopedia as a stepping off point for a year of research and report writing using the IEW method of teaching writing. But that's not a new discovery. What I did learn as a I tried to search for human body science focused literature (not for specific research but to enjoy reading as we research) is that we have living math books but every time you google science and human body and throw in literature for good measure, everything comes up experiments and texts but no real literature. I hope that by posting you'll add comments that might give me good ideas of what we can read as we do all that human body research!

So, I probably summed up my weekend of research in this one blog and Princess is going to spend all week raving over what she learned. I'm glad. It wouldn't have been good for me to leave HOH with the boys while I played on our anniversary weekend.

The final note: did you notice that I use links to significant pages spread throughout my post? I like to do that. It points you to other sites that are way more informative than mine. Do you like it?