The Homeschool Den

Hi! Thanks so much for stopping by!  I'm Liesl.  I have been homeschooling my three kids right from the start.  We still get a lot of traffic here to our old website and I thought it was time...

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OUR BLOG HAS NOW HAD MORE THAN 3.5 MILLION PAGE VIEWS! AFTER THREE YEARS UNDER THE PARENTS.COM UMBRELLA, WE HAVE MOVED TO OUR THIRD -- AND FINAL LOCATION...  HOMESCHOOLDEN.COM PLEASE JOIN...

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Update: After 3 years under the Parents.com umbrella, we moved to our third and final location: homeschoolden.com I am so excited to have joined the Parents team and have so many new pos...

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You'll find my most recent freebies over at my new location (now at homeschoolden.com).  Here are a few freebies you'll find over there: Huge List of Things to Do with Your Preschooler: ...

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I've been printing out our own customized writing paper for DD when she does her spelling and narration work.  She loves this paper and you can choose from all kinds of themes (animals, holida...

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ED turned four a couple of weeks ago. I always ask the kids what kind of cake they want.  ED wanted a Beyblade cake (the spinning top that you see down to the right of the cake).  Funny, huh?...

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When the kids were much younger (2009 or so) I heard great things about a website called Kids Who Think . Each week she put up new challenges and lots of people got in on the act.  Recently Am...

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Tsh over at Simple Mom had some links to some really good articles.  I especially liked the list (written by a public school teacher) of the 12 compelling reasons to homeschool your child .  ...

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I can't say we did an entire unit on Antarctica, but we revisited it briefly this past week and a half as we read Mr. Popper's Penguins aloud together. The kids really loved the book and it was...

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Today instead of doing our normal collection (group time when we do history, geography, science and/or German), I decided it was the perfect day to spend time on some family history.  Both o...

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We are working out some last minute details behind the scenes and will be transferring the Homeschool Den over from this site to Parents any time now!

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I really try to make sure the kids spend time outdoors. We don't have a playground, but they manage to find things to entertain themselves.  It's been a funny winter here with lots of mild day...

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Our next topic was the Louisiana Purchase. Prior to 1803, the United States territory went only as far as the Mississippi River. Napoleon Bonaparte, the ruler of France, needed money for his war...

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I came across a Valentine's Boggle Game at Teacher's Pay Teachers. I printed it out and much to my surprise both LD and DD LOVED it.  They did it both yesterday and today and then complained ...

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So yesterday I managed to get my Twitter account sorted out. I'm so excited to see 15 people following me already!  This evening I managed to sort out my new Facebook account too, though I'm n...

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Hi! Nice to meet you! As you may know, we will be joining the Parent's blog team pretty soon.  Our family decided we'd like to share a couple of photos of the family behind this blog.  He...

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I made a VALENTINE'S DAY set of division cards to use with LD over the next week or so. We use these cards to play a game called Fast Track -- an idea we got from Peggy Kaye's Games for Mat...

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ED has been working a lot on letter sounds and simple -at and -an words. I made this Valentine's themed word matching activity for her to work on over the next couple of weeks. She has to attac...

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While the other kids are working on their things, ED has lots of preschool activities in her workboxes. Here are a few things she's done this past week or so: We played memory using -at word...

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 DD is just now learning to skip count by 3s.  I made a unicorn and dragon themed game to help her practice. The game is pretty straight forward. Each player takes a turn drawing cards from t...

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As I mentioned last week, this semester we are studying the American West. We picked up where we left off last semester when we talked about Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. (To the left is Davy...

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A few days ago our first aid topic was on snake, spider and tick bites. First we went over the venomous snakes in our area and then went over some other venomous snakes they might encounter i...

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Fire Safety  We were quite overdue for a review of some basic fire safety rules.  Even though we've lived here for a year and a half, we hadn't made a family meeting spot outside in case of em...

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Not out of the house, we're here to stay for a while yet... but the Homeschool Den blog will be moving. A couple of months ago one of the editors of Parents contacted me and asked if I would lik...

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The girls got a new game for Christmas called A to Z, Jr by Discovery Toys.  What a great game! The game itself is the perfect age for DD and LD (ages 6 and 8). It's similar to the game Sca...

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