Here’s a good site to review the elementary facts of math. It is called Basic Facts.
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Speed Games for Multiply and Divide
These games will increase the students speed in multiplication facts.
Mr. Nussbaum’s
Math Magician
Here are some speed in division websites
Oswego
A+ Math
Factor Trees
Here’s a website that helps you find the prime factors of a number.
On this page, the instructions are to the left teaching the mathematical concepts and how to play the game.
Here’s the game.
Nice Afternoon
There are a couple of things that I did today. They wouldn’t seem very interesting to most. I washed our breakfast and lunch dishes and then I made a new roll recipe. I had my four kids near, busy with their responsibilities.
The Dawning of October 24, 2007
The waking hours this morning have been cool, almost cold. Just like fall weather ought to be. I opened my window even before the sunrise so I could feel the gentle breeze come in. Like normal, the day is now dawning. There is a bright orange line along the top of the trees at the edge of the eastern sky.
Sometimes God Says No So He Can Say Yes Later
Today I read a great story by Elizabeth Elliot on the Back to the Bible website. It’s about a mountain climber who lost her contact.
This was from a letter sent to Mrs. Elliot from Brenda Foltz of Princeton, Minnesota. She went rock-climbing for the first time:
The Cell~Plant And Animal Cells
Build a Cell website
Model of a simple plant cell
Learn more at Bio-Scope.org
Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone
I have a play co-written by Rod Serling, the creator and narrator of the Twilight Zone. It is named The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street and is in one of our literature books. To help my children learn more about Mr. Serling I found several clips on YouTube.
Intro to Original
No Time Like the Past Episode (condensed)
Prayer For Husband Challenge
Are you a woman with a husband you that you get a strong impression that he is a real loser! (Disclaimer: my husband is not in this catagory!!) Every woman needs to pray to make her husband a better man.
Lesson 2~State of Being and Linking Verbs
Lesson 2 Parts of Speech – Verbs
Find the verbs in these sentences. These verbs will be state of being verbs.
My uncle is a pilot.
The pie looks good.
You seem upset.
Answer:
The verbs in the sentences are is, looks, and seem.
These verbs are state of being or linking verbs.
Some common linking verbs are is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been, seem, look, feel, and become.
They do not show action. They just show that something exists.
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Find the verbs in these sentences*. They may be an action you cannot see or a state of being.
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