How Do You Handle Your Fall Harvest
October 8, 2008 by Katelyn Thomas
Filed under Frugal Gourmet, Frugal Homeschooling
As winter approaches, our gardens are producing a last burst of fruit and veggies. I’ve got raspberries and tomatoes coming out my ears, tons of annual herbs that need to be dried and the last of the potatoes and carrots getting enormous in the ground. I’m tired of canning, but I can’t waste these last delicious, organic foods. So, what to do?
I stayed up til midnight last night and hopefully solved most of my produce dilemma. I built a solar dehydrator using cardboard boxes, plastic wrap and other stuff around the house. If it works, I’ll tell you all about …read more
Thrifty Math Lessons for Homeschoolers
September 30, 2008 by Katelyn Thomas
Filed under Frugal Homeschooling
How many times have you gone through a checkout line, only to have the cashier, who is attending college classes, freak out when he or she has to figure a percentage off or do some other basic math calculation? I feel very strongly that the most important math homeschoolers can learn is consumer math and that is what I emphasized with my first homeschool kid. Once they have that mastered, they can go on to algebra, calculus and all the other higher math.
So, how do you teach these guys consumer math without going bankrupt on textbooks and manipulatives? I’m …read more
Hooked On Series for Homeschoolers or Parents
September 19, 2008 by Katelyn Thomas
Filed under Frugal Homeschooling
If you like the Hooked On Phonics series, but you are on a budget, you’ve probably been drooling over them and then going home to make your own worksheets or print things off from educational sites like me. However, today I actually went completely wild and bought not one, but two of the Hooked On sets:
Hooked On Handwriting and Hooked on ABCs. I found them at a very nice price at Ollie’s Bargain Outlet. The Hooked On Handwriting set was clearanced out for $19.99 and the Hooked on ABCs set was a bit pricier at $24.99. Since most of the …read more
