Here’s an excellent website, Our Daily Bread, for a quiet time with God each day.
At the bottom of the page you can click to listen to a man read a Bible passage. I love his impassioned voice! 🙂 Everyday that I listen to him I want to do what he is doing! Here are some key verses I found from the passages today.

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On Discoveryschool.com I discovered a list of brain teaser word problems. Try this one out. 🙂
Two Legs, Four Legs
Question:
A puzzle maker looks out a window into his back yard. He sees a mix of boys and cats. He counts 22 heads and 68 legs. He wants YOU to figure out how many boys are in the yard.

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I have a list of vocabulary words taken from a site that lists the most common ACT/SAT words you should know. We’ve been learning them as a family. I just found a site that makes puzzles with words you can put in. It’s at Discovery School. Here are the puzzles you can choose from. The crossword only can use a maximum of eight words.
Here is the list of vocabulary words I used:
abstract
aesthetic
benevolent
capricious
complacent
conciliatory
devious
diligent

The sky is cloudless as the sun rises. There is a gentle wind that moves the trees just a little. I wanted to describe the details of the rising sun before it revealed it’s blazing face but I just couldn’t start in time because my computer was still opening up my blog page. I watched as it peaked over the horizon. Quickly it seems as if in a minute it’s brightness blatantly began shining through my window and caused me to squint as I wrote down a description.
That’s okay, Jesus promises that someday He will come forth from the eastern sky and He will too come in a blazing glory that no one will be able to ignore. The opening of each new day reminds me of this and I look forward to His coming . . . that will be the dawning of eternity’s day for all the human race!

Pick out the verbs in these sentences and tell whether they are action verbs or linking verbs.
Suddenly someone sneezed loudly.
There are holes in my shirt.
He appears happy.
The image appeared in the mirror.
Answer:
The verbs are sneezed, are, appears, and appeared.
Sneezed and appeared are action verbs.
Are and appears are linking or state of being verbs.
Some verbs like appear can be either action or linking verbs.
It depends on whether it shows action or not.
Appears above is like saying seems which shows no action while appeared above shows the action of the image.
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Find the Action Verbs:

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Here’s a good site to review the elementary facts of math. It is called Basic Facts.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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