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- See more at: http://25.sonlight.com/my-account/#sthash.y9uLYPqd.dpufAlana Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08279397754046749463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682275117782063102.post-71357286558195792112014-12-23T00:10:00.005-05:002014-12-23T00:12:46.276-05:00Food: Chocolate Covered Pretzels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Chocolate Covered Pretzels</div>
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Chocolate Chips or Almond Bark</div>
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All you have to do is drop your pretzels in the chocolate mix then remove with a fork. Be sure to let the excess drip back into the double boiler. Place on wax paper to dry.</div>
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If you've never used melted chocolate before, here is what you will need to do...</div>
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Melting the chocolate will require a double boiler or two cookers stacked on top of each other like I used in the photo below. Fill the bottom cooker about 1/2 full of water and sit the other on top. Turn your burner on medium-high. The water will need to be at a steady boil, but not enough to boil over. Make sure you keep enough water in the bottom cooker to touch the top one.</div>
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Add your chocolate and paraffin wax into the top cooker and stir until it melts. There is no set ratio for the chocolate and wax. I usually use 1/2 a block of wax per bag of chocolates or package of Almond Bark. If it looks too thick, just add a little more wax. If it is too thin, add some more chocolate.</div>
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P.S. (LOL!) Sorry for the poor quality photos. I was making the pretzels way after dark and my kitchen lighting is definitely not for photography. It didn't even occur to me in my candy making madness to set a custom white balance.</div>
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<br />Alana Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08279397754046749463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682275117782063102.post-68716225248715442822014-12-15T14:37:00.000-05:002014-12-15T14:37:05.182-05:00How To :: Recover A Deleted Blogger Blog Post<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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OK, y'all know a few months back I made a major mistake. I accidentally deleted FIFTY, yes 50, of my blog posts. I almost had a heart attack. It was sheer panic here. It's not that I blog every day, or that millions of people were relying on those posts, but they meant a lot to me. Family recipes, lots of time, and lots of effort had been put into each of those posts. Even if in the end I was going to be the only one reading them.</div>
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So, I went straight to Google. Only to find out that once a post is deleted on Blogger, it is gone. There is no deleted folder that you can recover it from. POOF into thin air! After many hours searching I ran into <a href="http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2012/01/recovering-deleted-post.html">THIS PAGE</a>. It took me quite a while to figure out exactly what I needed to do to get my posts back, but in the end, it worked. I was so thankful! </div>
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My problem was that I am a visual learner. I need to a good hand holding and lots of pictures to figure these things out. I decided I'd do screen shots and post it on here to show you how I did it. It may not be exactly how they would have done it (though they pointed me in the right direction), but it is how I done it, and it worked. Yes, It is time consuming, but you can get your posts back (usually). You DO need to be on the computer that you used to originally to post from and hopefully the cookies haven't been cleared.</div>
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All your links bring you to pages that look like this. You are in a panic. What should you do?</div>
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First, Google the title of the the post (with your blog name). If the post is there, look on the right side. There should be a little arrow. Click that. Does it say Chached? If so, click it.</div>
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This should bring up a copy of what your post looked like before it was deleted. I use Chrome, so I just right clicked and clicked on Inspect Element.</div>
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This will bring up a page of coding or plain jibber-jabber that is hard to even look at. Hold the Ctrl key and hit F. It will bring up this little box that is circled at the bottom of the page. Type in the word "hentry" and press enter.</div>
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This is going to look up your Post ID. It will highlight the word "hentry". Below it is a long number. As is circled in the pic below. Copy that number.</div>
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Now, open your Blogger and start to write a post. At the top is a URL that contains your Blog ID. This url should end with the word editor.</div>
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Now, you want to type in the info on the picture below after the word "editor" in your URL. Instead of typing in the words "Post ID Number" you will need to paste in the actual number that you copied earlier on the page full of coding jibber-jabber. Now copy all of that URL and paste it into a new tab. </div>
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Now, it SHOULD bring up your original post. There may be a different way to do this, but here is how I done it.</div>
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Click the tab that says HTML. Highlight the whole thing and COPY.</div>
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Now, go back to the other editor tab as if you were going to type a new post. Hit the HTML tab there, and PASTE. Now you should be able to click the Compose tab and the entire draft should be there as it was originally. You will need to put in a new title, set the date to when you want it or originally had it, and add the labels/tags back. Click PUBLISH and TADA your post is back! </div>
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<br />Alana Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08279397754046749463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682275117782063102.post-35777124219240400432014-12-15T00:56:00.003-05:002014-12-15T01:06:57.703-05:00PumpkinsI found a couple more photos I thought might be worth sharing. Michael, the boys, and I made a trip to the local pumpkin patch before Halloween. They are growing up on me!<br />
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And here is the largest of the pumpkins we actually grew here at home. Well, actually the chickens grew. LOL. I tossed all the seeds from last year out to the chickens and apparently they planted them. Ha!</div>
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<br />Alana Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08279397754046749463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682275117782063102.post-26271446479554405452014-12-15T00:43:00.000-05:002014-12-15T00:43:00.094-05:00I never have time to update. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
AND... I am truly sorry about that. With homeschooling, animals, cooking, cleaning, and all the other things that go on in my life. This blog tends to get the back burner. I know I never made promised to blog every day, every month, or every six months... but I still feel guilty. </div>
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Here are a couple pics from around October to make it up to y'all. </div>
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<br />Alana Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08279397754046749463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682275117782063102.post-78417825187626079122014-12-12T18:11:00.000-05:002014-12-12T18:11:19.052-05:00Food: Chocolate Oatmeal Candy AKA No-Bake Cookies Recipe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Chocolate Oatmeal Candy AKA No-Bake Cookies</div>
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Add sugar, butter, and milk into a cooker and bring mixture to a full rolling-boil. Continue to boil for 1 minute or to 230 degrees on a candy thermometer and remove from heat. If you are timing it, make sure not to start the timer until it is at a full rolling-boil. Next, add vanilla, cocoa, peanut butter, and oatmeal into the mixture. Be careful, it is hot. Mix well. Pour into a buttered 9x13 baking dish, cool, cut into squares or drop large spoonfuls onto wax paper to cool. </div>
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I won a FREE year for my son on <a href="http://www.sdaccelerate.com/">Standard Deviants Accelerate</a> via a giveaway and later was asked to do a review... So here I am! :) </div>
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<a href="http://www.sdaccelerate.com/">Standard Deviants Accelerate</a> is pretty straight forward and really easy to follow. I had no trouble getting started. First things first, you will need to make your teacher account, set up your subjects, and classes.</div>
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<a href="http://www.sdaccelerate.com/">Standard Deviants Accelerate</a> offers 14 courses that include: Earth Science, Nutrition, Biology, Chemistry, Arithmetic, Fundamental Math, Algebra, English Comp., US History, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP US Government & Politics, AP US History, and AP English Composition.<br />
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You can find out more about what each subject covers, <a href="http://www.sdaccelerate.com/homeschool-courses/">HERE</a>.<br />
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Once you get your classes set up, you will give your students the invite code, and then they can access their lessons with that. I know it sounds a little complicated, but really it isn't. They have a step-by-step tutorial video to help you out or they offer a webinar. I will share the video at the bottom of this post.</div>
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When your student signs in, they will see this page:<br />
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When they click on a subject, you can see all the lessons/assignments for that subject. They just click the one they are on and they are set. Easy Peasy!</div>
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Now they will be able to complete their work via the tabs at the top.</div>
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My son, Bailey, hasn't complained at all when asked to complete his assignments on <a href="http://www.sdaccelerate.com/">SDA</a>. He doesn't say he loves it, but he doesn't complain, and that in itself is a WIN. He likes that it doesn't take very long to complete an assignment, so I often ask him to do two or three assignments at a time, which he doesn't like very much. <br />
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He hasn't had trouble completing the assignments in Arithmetic, as it is mainly review of what he has done before.<br />
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Bailey is doing great in Earth Science as well. The only other subject he is working on at this time is Nutrition. He does struggle with that one a little, but you can go back and redo the lessons and quizzes, so we've been doing that fairly often. He loves that he can type in notes (on certain topics) and save it, rather than having to write things down.<br />
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When your student has completed their assignment, you can go into your account and check their grades. It will notify you with flags if their grade is below where it should be.</div>
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As you can see, it is super easy to find all their grades in one quick glance.<br />
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For us, <a href="http://www.sdaccelerate.com/">Standard Deviants Accelerate</a> has not only been a great review but also a fantastic supplement. We are so blessed that we won that giveaway.<br />
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Pricing for core subjects is $24.95 per month per student. AP classes are $14.95 per month per student. That's a little out of my price range, as we are strapped for cash, as usual. However, I don't think this is a bad price for a high school course.<br />
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It's definitely worth looking into.<br />
Learn more about how it works for homeschool, <a href="http://www.sdaccelerate.com/works-homeschool/">HERE</a>.<br />
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Here are the video tutorials.<br />
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Teacher:<br />
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Dalton (age 9) and I were given the opportunity to try out <a href="http://clever-dragons.com/">Clever Dragons</a> for two months. In exchange I agreed to write a review with only my honest opinions of the site. </div>
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Our trial started at the end of June. Since we were on summer break, getting him to try anything educational was going to be a hassle. I never once mentioned to him that he would be learning. I simply said, "Dalt, check out this game." and he was in ... hook, line, and sinker. </div>
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He was immediately drawn in by the fact that you could create your own Mini-Me. </div>
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This has continued to be the main attraction for him. He loved changing his clothes and hair every single day.<br />
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It's pretty neat that you can buy clothes that others have designed</div>
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or design and sell your own to earn gold. </div>
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The CastleWorld was pretty neat as well.</div>
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There you will find an art shop, clothing store, design studio, furniture store, your castle, and as you earn more coins you can even upgrade your castle.<br />
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When you first start out, the inside of your castle is a blank canvas that you can decorate any way you wish. In order to do that, you have to have coins. That is where it gets sneaky (and educational).</div>
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You can visit other homes as well for inspiration.</div>
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Once you have used up all your coins, you will need more. How do you get them? Play "games" or watch videos. </div>
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Dalton liked to play the game Dragon Egg and we used the Geometry Shapes Quiz a lot to reinforce his math lessons.<br />
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He did cave and watch a few videos when I would ask him to do so.</div>
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I think his favorite part of the day was getting to SPIN and win free coins. He would laugh and get super excited when he won 50. The competition with kids for the most coins earned is great too. A real motivator. </div>
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One thing we didn't use much was the chat board. Dalton really wasn't interested in that, but I am sure it is great for older children. </div>
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I like that there is a free parent login where you can see your child's learning progress. You can even reward them with gold for doing their chores or homework. For those y'all that want a more detailed overview, assessments, and reports you can upgrade. </div>
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Now, down to the nitty-gritty... price.</div>
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As I said before, we were given a free two month trial, but new members can try it for a month for only $3.95 and then $8.95 there after. There are many more payment options to chose from as you can see from the screenshot below.<br />
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Would I try <a href="http://clever-dragons.com/">Clever Dragons</a> again if I had to pay $3.95 a month. Yes, it is absolutely worth that. Would I pay $8.95? Right now, probably not. Our budget is really tight. But in the future, absolutely.</div>
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Now, if you are wondering "What about the girls?" Never fear. They have a sister site called Always Ice Cream just for them!<br />
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The boys and I were absolutely delighted to be given the opportunity to review <a href="http://www.seethelightshine.com/the-crossmaker.html">The Crossmaker</a> by <a href="http://www.seethelightshine.com/">See The Light</a>. They provided us with the DVD in exchange for an honest review. That is exactly what you will find here. My honest opinion. 100% true and 100% my own! </div>
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I really wasn't sure what to expect from the DVD except that it was The Easter Story and art lessons. But, in the homeschooling world, if something is good, word gets around. I'd heard several people talking about how good these art lessons by See The Light are. We were given the option to chose whichever lesson we wanted to try out. Since it is very close to Easter, we decided to would go with The Crossmaker. I'm very glad we did! </div>
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I rounded the boys (and the dogs) up and we all settled in to watch.</div>
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*The DVD in it's entirety is 150 minutes. The Crossmaker is 16 minutes long and the lessons are approximately 25-35 minutes each. *</div>
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The Crossmaker is the story of "Dominic, the son of a carpenter, (who) finds himself drawn into the unforgettable trial of the man called Jesus." </div>
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I wasn't certain how well the film would hold my boys attention because it is told with the drawings of See The Light chalk artist, Gloria Kholmann. </div>
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My boys never moved a muscle, never even flinched. OK, well maybe they flinched, but they didn't move from the couch the entire time The Crossmaker was playing. It was gripping, stunning, breathtaking. There just aren't words to describe it. I literally had tears running down my checks. It was perfect. But nothing that wasn't OK for even my 8 year old to view.</div>
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After The Crossmaker was finished, we immediately jumped to He is Not Here! He is Risen! This are lesson finishes up the Easter story with the resurrection. See the Light Master Art Teacher, Pat Knepley, gives a step-by-step drawing lesson using chalk pastels.</div>
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Dalton decided he wanted to give this lesson a try. Yet, he is not a fan of getting chalk on his hands. So he decided he would do the drawing with pencils and crayons. </div>
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This lesson would have probably been better suited for Bailey, but Dalton was determined to give it a go. I think he did a fantastic job. Don't you? </div>
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(He didn't want to use purple on the hills and insisted on using green!)</div>
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After Dalton finished up, Bailey decided he would give Jim Pence's mixed media, Three Crosses on a Hill, a shot. Probably because it was quick and easy. Pre-teens!</div>
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We didn't have water-colors on hand, so he decided he would use his oil pastels. </div>
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I think he did a fantastic job! </div>
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Heidi Short also has a lesson on the DVD called Glory that teaches the art of creative lettering. </div>
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I honestly can't give this DVD enough praise or a positive enough review. I will certainly be purchasing the other <a href="http://www.seethelightshine.com/store/more-dvds.html">Bible stories</a> as we get the money. Bailey, Dalton, and I absolutely loved this!</div>
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Alana Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08279397754046749463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682275117782063102.post-72856179641507289552014-04-29T19:45:00.000-04:002014-04-29T19:45:03.526-04:00Homeschool: 6th Grade Reading LogThis year, I homeschooled both Bailey and Dalton. All of our read alouds were done as a group. Bailey was in 6th grade and Dalton was in 2nd.<br />
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Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder<br />
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Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder<br />
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Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder<br />
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When Santa Fell to Earth by Cornelia Funk<br />
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Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia Maclachan<br />
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Skylark by Patricia Maclachan<br />
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Peter Pan by Lisa Mullarkey<br />
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The Tale of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo (read this summer).<br />
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The boys enjoyed them all except Farmer Boy. I never thought we would get through that book.<br />
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I could never name all the books they read on there own as Free Reading.<br />
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Dalton read "readers" so he had a different little book everyday and sometimes 3 or 4.<br />
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I'll attempt to list a few of the ones that Bailey read on his own during Free Reading...<br />
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George's Secret Key to the Universe by Lucy & Stephen Hawking<br />
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George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt by Lucy & Stephen Hawking<br />
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George and the Big Bang by Lucy & Stephen Hawking<br />
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He really loved those!<br />
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He read a dozen or more of the Horrid Henry Books by Francesca Simon; and about the same amount or more of the Bailey School Kids books by Marcia T. Jones and Debbie Dadey. A couple of the Magic Tree House books by Mary Pope Osborne.<br />
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Spaceheadz by Jon Scieszka<br />
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Vordak the Incomprehensible: Rule the School<br />
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Vordak the Incomprehensible: How to Grow Up and Rule the World<br />
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney<br />
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The Unusual Mind of Vincent Shadow by Tim Kehoe<br />
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Super Fudge by Judy Blume<br />
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Henry and the Paper Route by Beverly Cleary<br />
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and even a few Junie B. Jones books.<br />
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That is all I have listed in my notes. I know he read more on his own time, but I didn't keep up with those.<br />
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Hope this helps someone out! :)Alana Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08279397754046749463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682275117782063102.post-725619695661474342014-04-29T19:27:00.002-04:002014-04-29T19:27:55.711-04:00Food: Apple Jelly <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is that time of year again... so, I figured I'd share another tutorial.</div>
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To make Apple Jelly you need apple juice. Now, you could probably use bottled juice or even frozen juices, but we use the real thing.</div>
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Peel, core, and slice your apples, cook them in a little water til they are tender, and then strain the juice. You can see photos of the process on my <a href="http://bullrockbarnandhome.blogspot.com/2013/08/food-how-to-make-homemade-applesauce.html">Applesauce tutorial</a>.<br />
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You can also boil your apple peels and make jelly from those if you'd like to do that. Just make sure you wash the apples before you peel them. Boil your peels and run them through a food mill. Save the juice. Toss the pulp out to the chickens.<br />
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Get your jars ready...<br />
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For your jelly, you will need...<br />
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5 level cups of juice</div>
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The recipe says to get 5 cups of juice you will need 4 lbs of apples to cook in 4 cups of water. This should yield 7 1/2 cups of jelly. </div>
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Since we just save our juice from the applesauce making process, we don't really measure the amount of apples we had to begin with. We just save the juice in a large jug and then measure the juice out to make the jelly. </div>
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Put your juice in a cooker, stir pectin into the juice, place on heat and bring it to a full boil. Stir continuously. </div>
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Now add in your sugar, slowly. </div>
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Fill your hot jars. Leave 1/4 inch of headroom. </div>
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Now wipe any juice from the rims of the jars and quickly put on your lid and ring while the jam is hot. You may need to hold the jar with a dishtowel while you put the lid on. They say fingertip tight.</div>
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The Ball Blue Book of Preserving says the next step would be to process the jars for 10 minutes in a boiling-water canner. To do this you just put the jars on the canning rack and lower them into simmering water. Make sure they are covered by at least one inch of water. Cover with lid and heat to a steady boil for the amount of time on the recipe. Turn off the heat and let the jars stand in the water for 5 minutes. Remove jars from water and sit them upright on a towel on the counter for 12 hours. </div>
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Now with that being said, I normally don't do the processing at the end. We eat our homemade jelly so fast there really isn't a need for it. After we put the lids on we leave them sitting on the stove top. In about half an hour they jars should be sealed. When they seal the tops will be flat or even look like they are caved in a smidge. There will be no bump on top and it won't make a popping sound when you touch them. If the jars haven't sealed, and the jam is still hot, turn the jar upside down for about 15 minutes. It should seal. Then we put in the fridge and forget it. But you may want to do what book calls for if you aren't going to eat yours straight away.</div>
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Daddy called last week wanting to know if we were going to do anything with the grapes on our concord grape vine. I had mentioned to him earlier in the week that it was hanging full of grapes. I told him I hadn't really planned anything yet, and that he was welcome to them. Just come on up and I'd help him pick them. </div>
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He, my nephew Austin (we call him Bud), myself, and my oldest son, Bailey, helped pick them. We picked over two gallons and still had 1/2 to 3/4 a gallon still hanging on the vine. </div>
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Aren't they gorgeous? </div>
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Well, Mom called Tuesday Morning around 9 AM to tell me she was going to make grape jelly and ask if I wanted to come down and help her. She hadn't expected Dad to come home with two gallons of grapes. LOL. So, I loaded up all the boys school books and laptop and off we went. They did all their work at her kitchen table and I ran back and forth between helping her and them. </div>
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This cooker was heaping full of grapes to be cooked. The photo was taken after they had cooked and several scoops had been run through the mill. </div>
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The recipe calls for 3 lbs of grapes to be cooked in 1 cup of water. We had no clue how many pounds we had and just added about a quart or so of water. Bring to a boil, cook about 10 minutes or so.</div>
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This is what the skins/pits should look like that are left in the mill. </div>
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Here is what the juice looks like after it has been through the mill. No skin or seeds in there.</div>
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And.. if you are wondering why there is something red in the jar next to it in the photo also, it was Strawberry Preserves. We made another batch of that also. You can see my tutorial for it, <a href="http://bullrockbarnandhome.blogspot.com/2013/08/food-strawberry-preserves-recipe.html">HERE</a>.</div>
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My sisters and I made Strawberry Preserves at Mom and Dad's a couple weeks ago. I didn't take pics of the whole process because I already had my <a href="http://bullrockbarnandhome.blogspot.com/2012/07/food-strawberry-jam-recipe-and-tutorial.html">Strawberry Jam tutorial</a> up. </div>
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The Ball Blue Book of Preserving says the next step would be to process the jars for 10 minutes in a boiling-water canner. To do this you just put the jars on the canning rack and lower them into simmering water. Make sure they are covered by at least one inch of water. Cover with lid and heat to a steady boil for the amount of time on the recipe. Turn off the heat and let the jars stand in the water for 5 minutes. Remove jars from water and sit them upright on a towel on the counter for 12 hours. </div>
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Now with that being said, I normally don't do the processing at the end. We eat our homemade jam so fast there really isn't a need for it. After we put the lids on we leave them sitting on the stove top. In about half an hour they jars should be sealed. When they seal the tops will be flat or even look like they are caved in a smidge. There will be no bump on top and it won't make a popping sound when you touch them. If the jars haven't sealed, and the jam is still hot, turn the jar upside down for about 15 minutes. It should seal. Then we put in the fridge and forget it. But you may want to do what book calls for if you aren't going to eat yours straight away.</div>
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Last year, I posted my <a href="http://bullrockbarnandhome.blogspot.com/2012/09/homemade-apple-butter-and-fried-apple.html">Homemade Apple Butter and Fried Apple Pie</a> recipe and tutorial. Since then, I've had several people ask if we make our own apple sauce or do we buy store bought? Well, you can do it either way, but we like to make our own. So, I figured I'd show you the actually process of making apple sauce and how to turn it into apple butter. </div>
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First, you will need to pick yourself some apples. </div>
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Now use your handy dandy apple peeler. This one peels, slices, and cores the apple all at once. This baby is a jewel. My parents got it in Liberty, Ky at the Amish village. But they do sell them at our local farm supply store also. </div>
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Once the apple has been peeled, cored, and sliced, cut the apple in half and cut off any bruises or pieces of peel that may have been missed. </div>
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Drop your apples into a bowl of salt water. We don't measure the salt, just put a handful in. Make sure to push the apples down into the water. This just keeps the apples from turning really red while you are working.</div>
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Once your bowl is full, drain, rinse, and put them into a cooker with maybe a quart to half a gallon of water so they don't stick.</div>
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Cook the apples until they are tender. You will want to bring them to a boil and then turn the heat down and let them boil gently for maybe 20 minutes. Mom never really times this part. You will be able to tell when they are soft while stirring them. Stir every now and then so they don't scorch.</div>
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Scoop the apples out and into a strainer. Drain most of the juice. A little is ok.</div>
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Once you have drained the juice, put the apples into the food mill and grind them into applesauce.</div>
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Sorry I didn't get a better picture of the actual sauce. You can see it here in the cup. My sister was measuring out the applesauce to make apple butter.</div>
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Now, if you want to just keep your applesauce plain, you can put it in tubs and into the freezer. You could also can it. Ball Preserving tells you how, <a href="http://www.freshpreserving.com/recipe.aspx?r=126">here</a>.</div>
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We don't eat a lot of plain applesauce, so we make ours into apple butter. To do this, get yourself some jars. <span style="background-color: white; color: #513c29; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Toss them (gently, lol) in the dishwasher. Don't forget the detergent. Put that sucker on HOT water and a heated dry. </span></div>
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Measure your applesauce back into your big cooker. Mom uses 16 cups of applesauce and 12 cups of sugar. You put 3/4 a cup of sugar to every 1 cup of applesauce. Now add in 5 Tbsp of Cinnamon and Cloves to taste. Mom uses 1-3 tsp. We used 3 tsp in this batch.</div>
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Now, bring this to a boil, stir a lot. You do not want it to stick. Reduce the heat a little and boil for at least 25 minutes. You want to be able to raise the spoon up out of the apple butter and for it to stick to the spoon. You don't want it runny. If it is still too thin after 25 minutes, continue to boil a few more minutes.</div>
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After your apple butter is done, carefully put into your sterile jars.</div>
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It is decision making time. If you are going to store your apple butter in the fridge, put on your lids and rings and turn the jars upside down on a towel for 5 minutes. Then turn them back upright. Your lids should start sealing quick. </div>
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If you would rather store the apple butter on shelves, you will want to can it. To do this, put the jars in your boiling water canner with at least 1 inch of water over the jars at all times. Boil for 15 minutes. (adjust for altitude)</div>
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That is it. Enjoy!</div>
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Hot Peppers (We didn't use those.)</div>
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Garlic (We used Garlic Powder.)</div>
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Hot sauce (We omitted that also.)</div>
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Peal, core, and dice up your tomatoes. 10 cups! </div>
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Mix all your vegetables in a cooker with the garlic (3 cloves or you can substitute garlic powder. <a href="http://www.foodsubs.com/Garlic.html">1/8 tsp = 1 clove</a>), cilantro (2 Tbsp), salt (3 tsp), and cider vinegar (1 1/4 cups). <br />
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Tada! It should make 6 pints or 12 half pints.</div>
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My Mom makes THE BEST vegetable soup, ever. Ok, maybe it's not just all veggies, but we still call it vegetable soup. She doesn't measure and doesn't follow a recipe, but I thought I'd share the ingredients with you. There is no right or wrong amount of any of them. Just whatever you think looks right to you. </div>
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First you will will fry your hamburger meat. I go ahead and do that in the cooker I am going to make my soup in. You can drain the grease or not. Mom does. I've done it both ways.</div>
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That's it. Put all the ingredients into the cooker and boil until everything is tender. Add in macaroni, turn down the heat to low, and let simmer for maybe 15 minutes.</div>
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If your family is anything like our family, then you LOVE peach cobbler. Doesn't everyone?!</div>
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Here is my <a href="http://bullrockbarnandhome.blogspot.com/2013/08/food-easy-peach-cobbler.html">Peach Cobbler</a> recipe, in case you need that too. </div>
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Now, back to the topic... to make peach cobbler, you need peaches. There are a couple ways to store your peaches through the winter. You can either can them or freeze them. I have a tutorial in the making for canning, but for now, here is how to freeze them. </div>
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It is always a good idea to wash anything that you are going to eat. But after that, you will want to peel your peaches and slice them into chunks. Toss the seeds or save them to plant yourself some trees. </div>
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Now that you have as many peaches as you need chunked up, mix them with sugar. Mom's pressure canner that we had the peaches in will can 7 quart jars at a time. I believe it is a 23 quart pressure canner. We had it heaping full, but moved some over into a bowl on the side. We mixed a 5 lb bag of sugar into all those peaches. Just mix it good and let it set a few minutes. Maybe 5-10 minutes. Once all those juices are mixing with the sugar it will look something like this.</div>
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Get yourself some freezer bags, some sort of dipper, and a funnel. We use quart size bags. Turn the top edge of your bag over so it sort of forms a lip. This will keep your bag from getting super sticky on the outside as you fill them up. Use the lip to hold the bag up and put a funnel into the bag. Fill. </div>
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Peach Cobbler has always been one of my favorite desserts. I recently had Mom show me how she makes it. I thought I'd really be getting into something hard, but in reality, it was easy! </div>
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First you want to get yourself a baking dish or pan. I use one that is about 9x13 or a little bigger. Melt your butter and pour it into the bottom of the pan. Mix the flour and sugar in a bowl and moisten with milk. You want it about the consistency of pancake mix. Once mixed, pour into the pan on top of the butter. Now, open your cans of peaches (home canned peaches are even better) and pour on to of all that. That's it. </div>
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Get yourself some vanilla ice cream and enjoy! </div>Alana Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08279397754046749463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682275117782063102.post-25062095162186627312014-04-29T18:51:00.002-04:002014-04-29T18:51:42.427-04:00Food: Canning Tomato Juice Tutorial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Opal, Missy, and I went to Mom and Dad's house today to can tomato juice. Missy's friend had picked up 3 big boxes of tomatoes for her in Tennessee. Most of the tomatoes in one box weren't ripe enough to can, so we only ended up canning two boxes. Still, we ended up with 21 quarts of tomato juice.</div>
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The amount of juice you make totally depends on how much you use tomato juice. Do you make a lot of your own sauces, soups, chili, etc? </div>
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REMEMBER I AM NOT A PROFESSIONAL. I AM LEARNING TOO AND CAN'T BE RESPONSIBLE IF YOUR TOMATO JUICE FLOPS. LOL. </center>
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Mom doesn't follow exactly what the USDA suggests, but like I said, she has been canning many years. So I will share their recommendations as well as her way. You make your own decision on how to do things.</center>
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To process the lids and clean the rings, put them in hot water (not boiling), and let them sit for at least 5 minutes.</div>
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Now to prepare your tomatoes... First, make sure your tomatoes are ripe and wash those babies real good. (You don't want any green on them at all.)</div>
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Then, you will want to cut off the top (stem) and bottom. Cut into 1/4's.</div>
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Cut out the hearts (white part) and any spots on the tomatoes.</div>
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Turn, Turn, Turn. This will separate any skin or seeds from the juice.</div>
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Your juice will look more like watermelon juice than tomato juice.</div>
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Your seeds and skins should pretty much be a paste by the time you get all the juice out of them.</div>
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Now you want to sprinkle in some salt (she doesn't measure) and boil for 20-25 minutes.</div>
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Mom covers her cookers while it boils. Be careful and don't let it boil over, because it will.</div>
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Now, your tomato juice will look like tomato juice instead of watermelon juice. Mom says it is because it boils out the green.</div>
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Tomatoes have a pH (acid) level that is just above the line dividing high-acid foods and low-acid foods. It is important for the safety and quality of tomato recipes that the proper acid level is maintained. Since many factors can decrease the natural acidity in tomatoes, the addition of bottled lemon juice or citric acid helps ensure the correct acidification. Bottled lemon juice must be used because its acid level is consistent, unlike fresh lemons.</div>
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Recipes that include an adequate amount of vinegar (5% acidity) do not require additional acidification, such as salsa, tomato chutney, and pickled tomatoes.</div>
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<br />Alana Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08279397754046749463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682275117782063102.post-8081912317678530952014-04-28T08:00:00.001-04:002014-04-29T22:12:08.179-04:00Guest Post: Improving Writing Skills Through JournalingThe following is a guest post by Nikolas Baron - <a href="http://www.grammarly.com/">Grammarly</a>. Enjoy! :)<br />
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If you are currently homeschooling middle-school-aged students, you understand how hard it can be to get them to write. For many of them, writing is a chore and a hard one, at that. Because of this perspective, those middle school students who hate writing grow into high school students who hate writing, and by the time they reach college, their only desire is to get through their required reading courses with a passing grade, so they can get on to the courses they really like.<br />
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This path, however, ultimately does our students a major disservice. By avoiding writing, students are not developing a lot of the critical thinking skills that will serve them well later in life – not just in their education but beyond as well. We should be encouraging our middle-school-aged students to write as much as possible, so that they can develop these skills early on, allowing them to further hone them as they continue through their academic career.<br />
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Of course, this is easy to say: get students to write more. How do you do that? In my work for Grammarly, I study how people write and the tools they use to become better writers, and I've found that, a lot of times, it isn't that students hate to write – though some certainly do – it's that they don't like what they have to write about in school. They don't like essays and research papers. The trick then, I think, is to assign them some writing that they will enjoy. If we can get them to write consistently, they'll not only develop strong skills, but they'll be able to transfer those skills when they do have to write an essay or research paper. They still won't like writing it, but at least they'll write it well.<br />
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In my experience, I find that one of the best ways to get students writing is to encourage them to write a journal. Every day, have them sit down, take out a notebook, and spend about 30 minutes writing whatever they want to write. If they want to write a story, let them write a story. If they want to write about an experience they had, let them. Encourage them to just let themselves go and write whatever is on their mind.<br />
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When students are given free reign over what to write, you'll be amazed at how much they write. It might take them a little while to get started, but once they figure it out, they'll be gone, and you'll see them write page after page.<br />
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If you really want to maximize this, tell them that you will not be reading or grading their journals. If they don't want to show anyone their words, they don't have to. When students hear that they not only get to write what they want, but that it's just for their eyes alone, they'll really get into the assignment.<br />
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You might be wondering how this type of writing is beneficial if you don't read or grade it. The reason is because writing is ultimately a skill that has to be practiced. Also, encouraging students to write whatever they want to write, away from the prying eyes of their teacher, gives them a chance to practice it and do so willingly. As they write, even if you aren't grading it, they'll be developing good writing skills and further developing those skills with each passing page. They'll learn how to organize their thoughts and express them in an understandable order. They'll develop the ability to think critically about those thoughts and how best to articulate them. On top of all that, they'll become proud of their writing, and in becoming proud, they'll develop a desire to write correctly, which should give you plenty of opportunities for teachable moments in terms of structure and grammar.<br />
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As they continue writing, it might even develop a desire in them to share their work with others—maybe not their innermost secrets, but perhaps some of the lighter and more humorous observations. When that time comes, it's important that you work to help them polish some of the more technical aspects of their piece so that their words can really shine through. Thankfully, over at <a href="http://www.grammarly.com/">Grammarly</a>, we have you covered on that, with our online grammar check that examines a piece of text for over 250 common grammar errors. When you combine your student's words with solid grammatical fundamentals, you'll end up with a truly stellar piece that your student can be proud of.<br />
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Nikolas discovered his love for the written word in Elementary School, where he started spending his afternoons sprawled across the living room floor devouring one Marc Brown children’s novel after the other and writing short stories about daring pirate adventures. After acquiring some experience in various marketing, business development, and hiring roles at internet startups in a few different countries, he decided to re-unite his professional life with his childhood passions by joining Grammarly’s marketing team in San Francisco. He has the pleasure of being tasked with talking to writers, bloggers, teachers, and others about how they use Grammarly’s online.<br />
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<i>(Bull Rock Barn and Home doesn't necessarily endorse all of the author’s views or associations.)</i>Alana Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08279397754046749463noreply@blogger.com0