Added Geometry, Living Math, Notebooking Pages

I added some simple math notebooking pages for Geometry at www.hslaunch.com . You can click on my page at the top of my right sidebar.

They can be used with the free printable 3d prisms, cubes, pyramids, etc. at http://www.senteacher.org/Print/Maths/ .

I also made a page for: What is solid geometry? and a page for What is plane geometry? .

We will use this with the Mummy Math book. I had this down on my shelves. I had gotten it at a yard sale for 10 cents. ~smile~ We will make the 3d printables and notebook about them. I will take a picture of the girls with their finished product and place it in the box on the notebook page. If they feel like drawing a picture of it, they can do that also.

Living Math and (added a few pics of the day)

I have been thinking a lot about "living math". I am going to start adding links to books and other information I can find for this. We did read some "living" math books last year but I believe I will be taking this a little more seriously.

The links will be on the bottom right sidebar.

I have, in my possession, Math Dictionary, Math On Call, The I Hate Mathematics! Book, Math for Smarty Pants, Anno's Math Games III, (adding in the book Marvelous Multiplication: Games and Activities That Make Math Easy and Fun...Katie enjoys this and so do. It is very hands on), and I know I have a few others on my shelves. I believe this is a good start. ~smile~ (all of these were about 25 cents each and 1 may have been a dollar.) Sometimes I think God is putting all these books in my path knowing I can do something good with them/besides just reading.

Now I have to figure out how I want to put all this together with notebooking. The kids love the "fancy" notebook pages so I'll have to create some; these along with all the other ideas I have for other subjects. ~LOL~

I did see how others have done notebooking with their pictures they take. Usually I would add them at the end of the year for the portfolio. Now I'm thinking that I should get them printed off so the kids can write on their pages what happened in these pics before they forget.

I drive my husband crazy. He just says, can you please create these.or something to sell online and make a little money. Well, I want to do that but I also love to give things away.

Katie is sick (tell her that). She has a fever, cough, looks terrible but just cannot sit still. She's had fever meds., vicks on her feet, orange juice, lots of toast with earth balance and jelly. She looks so tired but she is all over the place! And the poor rabbit, she is hugging it a little too much.

Maybe I'll write later.

Have a good day.
~Margarete~

Today continued...

First thing; does anyone have or know of an Easter tree to do? We really liked the Jesse Tree. I do not want to do resurrection eggs, again. Any ideas?

Next:

These are the math books I own as of this moment.

Ana has been giving me a hard time with phonics and reading lately. This afternoon I decided to try some notebooking pages. She sat right down. We worked on the sound 'oo' as in cook, look, book, and took. she she wrote out -ook and I wrote it in cursive. She then drew a picture for the word and wrote a sentence. She also wrote the word at the bottom of the page. She enjoyed this very much. She loves to color and draw so this was not a problem where Katie is the opposite. Many times she has cringed when I pulled out a coloring page.

These are pics. of our boys (from last night). Dereck is hiding from Pancake the rabbit. Pancake decided to visit them

Yes, the cage will be cleaned today. :) They get dirty so fast.

Pancake posing for the camera.

Horse Camp

The 2 girls started their week of full days summer camp yesterday. (Do you see me jumping up and down?) hahaha Oh my. Anyway, they are having so much fun. Katie said she was on the biggest horse, Not a draft horse but close enough. I'm still trying to figure out how she got her legs around. ~lol~ The horse is huge.

I told the girls that I wish I could send them there more days than their regular lessons and Ana said, "But Mom, we won't have enough time to spend with you." She is worried she won't see me. She sees me all the time; from the time they open their eyes to the time they close their eyes. You would think they would love to get away from me. But no, they want me around.

On Saturday, we found out that one of the horse passed away. He got sick and they had to make "the decision." He was Katie's instructor's horse. ...beautiful... He will be missed so much. Katie had the chance to ride him last Wednesday. She was in heaven. Seriously; when she was done her lesson, she was happy, excited, I just can't explain it. I saw a difference in her. When she found out that he died (we told her Sunday after church), she was a mess. She cried off and on during the day, hugged me a lot and her day was just "off." She couldn't relax. She seems ok now.

Katie and Ana love being at the barn. It is a special place for them. The young women in charge of the barn, instructors, etc. are wonderful with all the kids. Many have disabililties and yet they are smiling and having a bundle of fun. I am so thankful for the girls to be able to be there.

Ok, so what do I do with my self while the girls are not here? I'm going to clean out my refrigerators. Isn't that thrilling? ~smile~ Seriously though, they are a mess. They are slowly dying and they are freezing the food/milk that sits on the top shelves. Here's praying that they last until we can get a new one...with cash. We were looking at the biggest one. Wow, would that be nice.

Have a good day.
~Margarete~

P.S. I'm slowly getting those notebooking pages for 'Milestones in Science done. I've been doing some every day. After that I think I will make some for other books I have. That will be done slowly considering school is starting soon. We had one day of school so far. ~LOL~

Notebooking Pages

I added 6 more Milestones in Science notebook pages on my hslaunch page (link at the top of the right side bar). ~smile~

Notebooking Pages (Update)

UPDATE: I got the problem fixed and I started to upload some notebooking pages at www.hslaunch.com ... the link is at the top right side bar.
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I have been trying to make new notebooking pages for 'Milestones in Science' experiment kit by Thames & Kosmos. I am having trouble with the pdf files. The corners have 2 lines like this: l_ and I can't seem to remember how to get rid of them. I am using Serif Applications PagePlus 9. I had this happen before and I cannot figure out how to erase them. When these are gone. I will load them onto hslaunch.com under my page.