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Cr-48 | Chrome OS Notebook

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By Amanda Pelser

About a week ago, I saw through Twitter and some blogs that Google was preparing to test their Chrome OS and inviting people to apply to be beta testers.  I’m already a die-hard Google user – from Gmail and Google Reader to Google Docs and Google Calendar.  I live in “the cloud” for the most…

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Book Review: Love at Last Sight by Kerry & Chris Shook

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By Amanda Pelser

When the Shook’s previous book, One Month to Live, came out, our church did a series using their materials. It was an eye opening month so when I had the opportunity to read the Shook’s latest book, Love at Last Sight, I jumped on it. As before, the book is written in a 30 day,…

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Reading… and preparing for next year’s curriculum

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By Amanda Pelser

I’m still working on gathering books for Jonathan’s homeschooling for next year.  I found a few used books very cheap recently through a homeschool classifieds group online, so I have updated the list.  Take a look here on our Amazon wish list for the books we still need. We have a new bedtime routine…  Each…

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Video: Jonathan Reading

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By Amanda Pelser

I took this video while Jonathan was reading a couple nights ago.  It is fairly long.  I pieced together multiple clips that I took using my phone.  You’ll see and hear how he sounds out words, can get frustrated at times, and he’s a wiggly little boy 🙂 The book is a Pathway Reader, which…

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Pre-K Day 1

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By Amanda Pelser

Here is what our first day looked like…. Spell to Write & Read Word List A – Jonathan sounded out the words that I said aloud for him.  He wrote the first two on his whiteboard.  Then he told me which letters to write for the rest of the ten words.  Then he traced the…

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