Monthly Archives: February 2015

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10959701_938590616159835_886249412829389929_nHappy Monday and Happy Homeschooling!  Also, Still Learning Something New just turned 2 years old! Special Days, Homeschool Humor, a personal thought or two, and a few lesson plans that actually worked well enough to be share worthy…  Whatever your reason for visiting the blog – THANK YOU!

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Resources for Teaching – Chinese New Year

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Happy Chinese New Year! Last winter, our J put together a project based on this celebration. Interesting study for our whole family. These are the links for online resources that he used. I checked them and all are still active and most have been updated for this year.

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Chinese New Year is Jan. 31 this year!  2014 is the year of the horse.  My J has already started a special project about the origins, traditions, and celebrations of Chinese New Year.  Below are some awesome links we’ve found for this project.  The whole family has been involved with helping him and we’re all learning!

Chinese New Year resources, games, recipes and printables  http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/chinese-new-year/

Printables, coloring sheets, worksheets and more  http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/chinese-new-year

Chinese New Year craft ideas and instructions  http://www.artistshelpingchildren.org/chinesenewyearsartscraftsideaskids.html

Free downloads for language arts and math activities with a Chinese New Year theme  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:chinese+new+year/Grade-Level/Homeschooler/Price-Range/Free

Chinese New Year Family Traditions  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noiouIzjJZE

Learn Mandarin Chinese – 40 online lessons with audio, including reading, speaking, writing, modern vocabulary, grammar, calligraphy, examples and exercises    http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese

So far J’s project is looking great and his report is coming together nicely.  We will be adding some arts and crafts and cooking this coming up…

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Superstitions

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It’s another Friday the 13th! Here’s the links to some great resources for learning about Superstitions. This was one of our favorite and most interesting studies from last June’s Friday the 13th.

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Summer craziness and busyness started this week.  E is teaching at junior color guard camp.  Z is in VBS, B’s working for camp money, J’s been promised a movie at the theater. And all of us start the local library’s summer reading program which this week includes a water/comedy/magic show.  Not to mention, we still have our tutoring/babysitting job twice a week.  With so much happening with just life, I had thought that we wouldn’t have any “school” this week.   But…

In my homeschooling journal I found a note from back in February that said to check bookmarks for “superstition” for summer school lessons for the week of 6/9 – 6/13.

I’m wowed by the resources and links I had saved up for this week.  Surely we’ll have time to learn about superstitions because this stuff is INTERESTING!  Below are the sites I had bookmarked in case you can…

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