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Laundry Soap Recipe

3 TBSP Dish Soap
3 TBSP Washing Soda
3 TBSP Borax
Water

I recycled a detergent jug I had just finished off using to put my new homemade laundry soap in.  [It helps if you have a funnel and a tea kettle.]

What To Do
Using a funnel, put the TBSP's of dish soap, washing soda and borax in your jug.  Heat a few cups of water up in a tea kettle.  Once the water is ready, fill the jug up about halfway.  Put the cap back on and shake it up a bit so the ingredients will dissolve.  Let it cool off at bit, cause it gets pretty hot, then pour enough cold water to fill up the rest of the jug. And, it's ready to use!

Tips: Dish soap we use is Palmolive with Oxy.  It's done the job very well at getting out all our stains and spots.  Have only had to use Shout once!  You could buy a more sweet smelling dish soap to make your clothes smell extra special. & I either fill the cap all the way up or halfway.  It depends on how large the load is. 

PERKS
Lasts Forever!  I do about 4 to 5 loads of laundry a week and have to make a batch of laundry soap about every month to month and a half.  In the last 6 months since starting this, the only recipe ingredient I have to buy is the dish soap.  Which we buy already.  And I am no where near going through the big boxes of Borax and Washing Soda.  They only cost a few dollars each and will last a very long long time. 
Much Cheaper
Doesn't fade colors
Cleans clothes awesomely and smells fresh!

Personally we love this recipe, it works great for us and we will keep using it! 

To read the rest and get all the clickable links, go to: http://homeschooljabber.blogspot.com/2012/08/laundry-no-grate-soap-recipe.html

Homeschool | My Top 5 Reads for Mom

Almost always, I am at a loss of words when asked:  What do you recommend?  Those four little words coming from a Mom thinking about diving into homeschooling.  I'm embarking on our sixth year of homeschooling.  It took me some time to figure it all out. And I had and still have amazing mentors.  

First there is SO much to say that it is impossible to say it all.

Secondly there is NO way a new homeschool Mom would understand the ins and outs of homeschooling until they have actually experienced it.

Thirdly it's like riding a bike.  Noone can teach you or do it for you.  You are shown the basics and it's up to you to "Ride".

 

I will admit (it took me till the middle of my first year to figure this out).... the very very FIRST place a future homeschool Mom needs to start with is:  With You.  As the Mom.

 

Here are five books that I started with:

note: started with is in bold print.  there are many more.  trust me, your library of mom empowering books will grow like wild fire as your homeschool journey continues.

 

Sharing my Top 5 Favs of all time for Homeschool Moms.

​Click here to read more...

Materials:
Poster board or large paper
Tissue paper
Brown paper bag
Glue
Scissors 
Marker, pen
 

 What do the tree & leaves look like.
Colors.
What's the weather like outside.
What are the animals doing.  (Hibernating, having babies)
Holidays during that season.
What kinds of things do we do during this time of year.


+I cut out a bunch of squares with the tissue paper and used a brown paper bag to cut out the tree trunks.
+We placed the tree trunks where we wanted them on the paper and Kiley glued them down.

We had a good assembly going.  Kiley started singing, "What's going to work? TEAMWORK!"  It's a song off the Wonder Pets show.

The skills listed below are simply a reference to give you some idea of what skills are typically covered, up through the end of Kindergarten. Children learn in different ways and on different time tables. What one child may learn at 4, another may not be ready to learn until 6 or 7. Please keep this in mind when viewing the skills list below:

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Does your child enjoy reading Historical Literature? When my son was in 3rd grade I introduced him to HL and he loved it! I can't begin to tell you how much he learned about time periods and life 'as it was' through the adventures that he read. Whether HL is Historical Fiction or Nonfiction...So much can be learned through the journey! Here on the Hub we have a growing collection of HL and will be continuing to add more. If you haven't checked our HL titles out...here they are:

Native Americans

	Alaska's Daughter An Eskimo's Memoir in the early 20th Century		Beneath These Red Cliffs Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah			Along Navajo Trails Recollections of a Trader
	The Anguish of Snails Native American Folklore in the West		Coyote Steals Fire A Shoshone Tale			Indian Self-Rule 1st-hand accounts of Indian-White relations from Roosevelt to Reagan
	Pedro Pino Governor of Zuni Pueblo		Indian Stories Retold from St. Nicholas

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American Pioneers

Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky

David Crockett Life & Adventures

It's FREE BOOK FRIDAY!
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For Pre-K we focused a lot on learning our ABC's.  We did this by learning a letter a week.  Starting with Aa and moving on till we finished with Zz.  This approach worked really well for my daughter.  Check out below what steps we took and try some out for yourself!

Learn A Letter A Week
 

Practice Writing In Upper & Lower Case

Make An Animal Puppet

Read the rest of the blog and get links to free printable worksheets go to: http://homeschooljabber.blogspot.com/2012/08/teaching-abcs.html

We all need encouragement along the journey. Now, encouragement is just a click away! The Christian Homeschool Toolbar has just added a media player on which you have the choice of listening to...

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~ The Wired Homeschool
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