Picnic Table Talk: Organizing your space

This week's Picnic Table Talk at ABC and 123 is about organizing your space. Here's a sample of how I organize our space as homeschoolers. We live in a small 2 bedroom apartment with 800 square feet so I have to make the best with the space we have.
We have a built in bookcase in our living room that holds all of our homeschooling books, binders, and materials. For our boys' room (pictured above)

Picnic Table Talk: Imagination

This week's Picnic Table Talk at ABC and 123 is about your child's imagination. This is something important to me since I enjoyed pretend play as a child. We never watched much television as children. We had only one television set and when my Dad came home from work it was his! We played outdoors from the time we came from school until bedtime (with a break for dinner and a bath).When my mother

ABC Letter Themes

This week's topic at ABC and 123 is all about the alphabet. Stop by their site to join and find lots of great ideas. We just started teaching the alphabet to our youngest son but we already have some favorite books. Since mostly everyone covered books, we decided to post our ABC Letter themes with a related theme unit we are covering for 2009-2010.Here's our list: (there are links to what we have