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Coloring Sheets: Easter Bunnies

Posted 22 April 2011 | By | Categories: Parenting | 2 Comments

ll Hello everybody!  Today we present Easter Bunnies.  As always, click over the image to get the PDF version you can print.  Leave us your requests under the comments section and visit our previous coloring sheets here.   Enjoy the holiday! ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll

Coloring Sheets: State Birds & Flowers

Posted 31 December 2010 | By | Categories: Coloring sheets | No Comments

    Happy New Year!  A new year starts tomorrow and we are getting back to our series of State Birds & Flowers.  Today we have Florida, Georgia, Hawaii and Idaho.  As always, click over the image to get the PDF version you can print.  Leave us your requests under the comments section and visit our previous coloring sheets here.  [...]

Road Hog! The Unwritten Rules of the Road

Posted 16 September 2010 | By | Categories: Behavior, guest posts | 10 Comments

This is a guest post by Mely “the Wife” Wilcox.  She came back from a run one day in a state of apoplectic rage at pedestrian discourtesy.  She doesn’t write often, but when she does you know it must be important.  This is what she has to say.                    It has been said in the [...]

Visual Math for Kids: A Collection of Children’s Books

Posted 18 July 2010 | By | Categories: Reviews | 3 Comments

   Math doesn’t have to be daily lessons of worksheets, word problems, and scratch paper.  Math can be fun.  Yes, I know that sounds like a third grade teacher desperately trying to convince her students that they aren’t in a math class.  The truth is though that Greg Tang has written a series of children’s [...]

5 de Mayo: It is Not, I repeat, it is Not Mexico’s Independence

Posted 05 May 2010 | By | Categories: Holiday | 13 Comments

  I’ve lived in the United States for almost 13 years and I’ve never understood the fascination people here seem to have with Cinco de Mayo.  It is a Mexican holiday, but it’s not a particularly important one. It isn’t Mexican Independence Day (September 16) and it’s not even celebrated in most of the country.  [...]

Christmas in Mexico

Posted 13 December 2009 | By | Categories: Holiday | 5 Comments

A guest post by Mely Wilcox     Christmas is just a couple of weeks away. The stores are all decorated, the Salvation Army bells are ringing, and we have snow on the ground. These are a few of the trappings of an American Christmas.  However, customs in Mexico are quite different. I still remember the [...]

Day of the Dead – The Basics

Posted 27 October 2009 | By | Categories: guest posts, Holiday | 8 Comments

   Here in the United States we’ll soon be celebrating Halloween.  The traditions of Halloween are ingrained in our heads, pumpkins, candy, costumes and trick or treating.  Some of us even know the reasons behind the traditions.  Well, other countries have holidays that roughly coincide with our Halloween.  One country that celebrates death a bit [...]

To Learn English

Posted 23 August 2009 | By | Categories: Education, guest posts | 16 Comments

This is me telling my story on how I learned English.   In our family we decided to homeschool our kids. We have many reasons for doing so, one of them is freedom to be able to choose what we teach to them and when. How to teach them Spanish was a subject that for [...]