Monday, June 17, 2013

Summer Projects For Boys!

Need something fun for the boys (or girls...but I have boys)???

100 Awesome Engineering Projects for Kids

Friday, June 14, 2013

So you're thinking about ACE for your kids but you'd like to see detailed samples...not just 2 or 3 pages??? me too..

Here ya go..

ACE Pace Samples

Ignore the reference to the new website...it no longer exits.

ACE Paces Catalog, Scope & Sequence & Home Educator's Manual - FREE Download

So you know I love ACE here's the full color catalog that you can download and look at and the Scope and Sequence

ACE Scope and Sequence

ACE (School of Tomorrow) Full Color Catalog - NO LONGER WORKING!

ACE Home Educator's Manual This spells out EXACTLY how to implement ACE Paces and is part of their home educator's kit ($25.00) - and it's free here!

http://www.aceministries.com/

Monday, June 10, 2013

Down Down The Mountain Links!

Social Studies - Blue Ridge Mountains

Blue Ridge Parkway
Blue Ridge Mountains
Appalachia Mountain Montage

Appalachian Culture
Women Of These Hills - quite long but very informative...there is some reference to
creation stories
Heart Of Appalachia
Appalachian Settlers and Their Dwellings - for some reason this doesn't want to play
on an iPad

LA - Vocab- word search
Alliteration
Drama - Act Out

Art - Making Composite Illustrations
Make a Picture in the Style of the Artist

Math - Playing Store, Money and adding Money

Science - Botany of the Blue Ridge Mountains
Virtual Drive of Blue Ridge Parkway in Bloom

Night Birds
Whipporwill Calling At Night - Only sound
Barred Owl Hooting

Play with Lincoln Logs!

What I LOVE About Paces!

So It's been about 5 months since we switched to ACE Paces and here's two things I LOVE about them:

1. Portable Learning!

2. It gets done!!! Last week was a bad week for me not feeling well and yet....school went on almost without me. I say almost because I check my kids work but still.....such freedom to not HAVE to teach them everything and yet learning continues in the morning. In the afternoon/evenings we do our unit studies when I feel up to it.

Now for the naysayers who think ACE is behind I just did a quickie check against other workbooks that you can get at the market or wallyworld and guess what??? It was ahead of them so that means it's ahead of what the school is doing and the explanations for the kids was SOOOO much better.

Friday, June 7, 2013

Beautiful Day!

Happy Weekend!...

Little Light Reading On A Beautiful Day

Angel Baby trimming with "tweezers"

Big "tweezers" right??? LOL

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

How To Use ACE Paces (workbooks) For More Than 1 Child!

*** updated post here

First let me say that I think it's a good idea to buy from ACE so you support them but I know that many right now are needing to tighten their belt so hopefully this will help someone out. We have bought all of the Paces for the kids but recently I needed to cut back. When the children are little and are not capable of copying into a copybook for the answers you need to come up with a way for them to write in the Pace without marking it. Most people suggest cutting up the Pace and then putting them into a page protector but I didn't want to cut the Pace up so here's what I did:

First I bought Sliding Bar Report Covers like this:

and fine point pens:

***A note of caution about fine point wipe off markers...most of them are NOT fine point even if it says fine point. These ARE so I highly suggest you get these since they are most like a pencil or pen.

Then I cut (the part that opens) the report covers to 8" so they fit a page of the Pace then slide the page in and put the slide bar over the end. I do this also to the prior page so that the wipe off marker doesn't get on the prior page.

I do this for each page that my kids are going to do for that day and...

WALA! Wipe off Pace (workbook)...