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How to Teach a Child to Write a Novel
This spring, I formed the Junior Secret Noveling Club, a small group of kids who wanted to learn to write novels. The kids were between ages 7 and 9, and all homeschooled, all brisk little chirpy creative spirits who were game for my games.I develope...
How to Make a Magic Carpet
The study of Persian rugs is an interesting way to get into Persian history and Islamic culture. Why are Persian carpets so beautiful? In a culture where iconography is immoral, a functional object like a rug is a place where art can be expressed "l...
Vote for Me: Elections Unit Study: Week 5
Good morning students! This lesson involves pulling a lot of the work you've done as a candidate into one media product: Your web presence. Your slogan, your poster, and now your video ad will all be part of your web ad. I've given you a very simple ...
Vote for Me: Elections Unit Study: Week 4
Hi future politicians of this fine country! Is it just me or are you noticing the road sides covered with signs promoting the different candidates? Some of them just have the candidates' names, but some have slogans like "Peace, Prosperity, and Refor...
Vote for Me: Elections Unit Study: Week 3
Hello candidates! Welcome to your campaign! Isn't this exciting? We have a little over fifty days left until the election, and things are rocking and rolling on the national scene. Now that we've had our conventions, it's time to hit the campaign tra...
Vote for Me! Elections Unit Study: Week 2
Hello class members! Welcome to week 2 of our campaign! This week we are going to be learning the ins and outs of an introduction speech, the significance of the "running mate," and we're also going to be listening to and yelling political speeches ...
Vote for Me! Elections Unit Study: Week 1
Welcome to the Vote for Me! Elections Unit Study week 1, in which we begin to develop our own campaigns! Last week was great. We figured out what the President does and learned a song naming all the Presidents. We learned about the reasons voting is ...
Vote for Me! Elections Unit Study: Prelude Class
Welcome to the Vote for Me! Elections Unit Study here at Little Blue School. After a quick run to the computer store for a new monitor to save my laptop, which I apparently decided to throw on the floor at midnight last night and which now has a scre...
Vote For Me! An Elections Unit Study for Young Candidates
Starting this Wednesday, August 6, I will be e-teaching a class on elections via this blog. The class will take each student through developing their own presidential candidacy, including creating a campaign commercial, developing a platform, and int...
Hidden Poetry Project
One challenge in teaching very small children to write poetry is that they don't really know what it looks like -- its literal or even imaginary shape. Children hear stories of a certain length and "shape" regularly. There are reliable forms and pred...
Treasure Island Homeschool Seminar: Literary Lesson Plans and Nautical Worksheets
It's here! The Treasure Island unit study you've been staying up nights longing for! Ready to download and use in your homeschool family, your co-op, or even your regular old classroom! Get out your eye patch and saw off your leg -- it's time to laun...
Reading Questions and Vocabulary for Boba Fett #2: Crossfire
Don't judge me. This isn't what it looks like! I have an eight-year-old son who has suddenly become deeply entranced with Star Wars. So, he is reading this Boba Fett series, alright? He doesn't like fiction as a category, and I just go with whatever ...
Boxing the Compass: A Printable Compass Worksheet
In our pirate class (by which I mean our very serious literature class about Treasure Island, which happily is populated exclusively by small boys and therefore has turned into pirate class) we're learning about compasses and how they work. Did you k...
