Life’s A Weekend!

This is some of what google alerts delivers for “lapbooking”.
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2008/jul/13/katrinacolumn0714/ - Dear Bored Stiff
http://funinthesunmom.blogspot.com/2008/07/homeschool-planning-it-start-just-some.html - file crates and specials from the Sunshine State, USA
http://cheshiersjourney.blogspot.com/2008/07/adding-to-our-curriculum.html - zoology
http://learning-by-living.blogspot.com/2008/07/monday-ramblings.html - from Montana - wish they knew about lapbooking sooner
http://homeschoolingpooh.blogspot.com/2008/07/today-my-little-girl-and-i-finally-got.html - Wizard of Oz
http://homeiswheretheheartis.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/hit-the-books/ - just getting started - write and encourage her in lapbooking. “The 2-shelf bookshelf just doesn’t cut it any more” - hey! […]

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What is the key to our living safely and respectfully in community?
Bless Garth George, journalist and column writer for NZ Herald. He has touched on the key issue here:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=500818&objectid=10518356&pnum=0
“Love can save us from this moral vacuum”
“Things must be getting really grim when two newspaper commentators - Wellington veteran Rosemary McLeod and former Listener editor Finlay Macdonald […]

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Here’s your spelling lesson for today.  
Yes, this is filed under Fellowship or Friendship Friday. A tenuous link but since blogging and writing online is a kind of community, it gets put here.
All bloggers & writers, please note :

Plurals do not need apostrophes.
Apostrophes are usually used when a letter is missing.
eg. you’re = you are.   ‘You’re welcome to come […]

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 New Zealand home educators are online.
Here’s some that I found: (expanded & republished)
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngtheFLYingKiwi/ - Ang
http://momentsofwhimsy.blogspot.com/ - Cate
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ChrissyShads/ - Christina
http://thenewunschooler.blogspot.com/ - Colleen
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/KiwiSmithFamily/ - Craig Barbara
http://www.cynthiahancox.com/blog/ - Cynthia 
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CynthiaH/ 
http://wonder-mints.blogspot.com/ - Darnia
http://3kiwihomeschoolers.blogspot.com/ - ‘J’s Mum’
http://kiwidigitalscrapbooking.blogspot.com/
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/kiwimumoffive/ - jaybee
http://homeschoolingdiary.wordpress.com/ - Jen 
http://banquet.homeschooljournal.net/ - Johanna
http://lapbooking.wordpress.com
http://katekiwi.blogspot.com/ - Kate
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/kiwigirl/
http://www.homesteadblogger.com/atTheGoodLife - Leanne
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/OurSchoolingJourney/ - Maree
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/mlaktin/ - Marilyn
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/wisdomspearls/ - Melody
http://www.rachel-larkin.com/ - Rachel L, Ak
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LittleSchoolHouse/ - Rachel L, Chch
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/4kiwigirls - Rachel R
http://www.xanga.com/Rabbits_Nest - Raewyn, top SI
http://weblog.xanga.com/Rabbits_Nest
http://watercolourdreams.blogspot.com/ - Sandra
http://sharonnz.blogspot.com/ - Sharon
http://unschoolersanonymous.blogspot.com - Shell, Wn
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/KuraKainga/ - ‘Sherena’
I shall keep looking […]

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Lapbooking is a fantastic way to present unit studies or projects.
Lapbooking 101 - www.lapbooking.wordpress.com
Lapbook folders, ideas, and photos from last week:
http://paper-basket.blogspot.com/
http://thehomeschoolingblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/socalval/
http://littlehomeschoolonthehill.com/
http://tropicalmom.blogspot.com/2008/04/lap-books.html
http://talibiddeenjr.wordpress.com/
http://yankeegal.geeksforchrist.com/
http://scooterandb.blogspot.com/
http://islamicunitstudies.wordpress.com/
http://jetihoja.blogspot.com/
http://thecoxscorner.blogspot.com/ - first lapbook
http://banquet.homeschooljournal.net/ - Johanna’s blog
Digital lapbooking is relatively new and emerging. 
Here are some examples of different styles :
http://karatekidkast.tumblr.com/ (by 3x 9+10 year olds) using a tumblr blog
http://lapbooks.wordpress.com/dogs/  (8yo) using wordpress with linked through files
http://www.slimeandgrime.co.nr (16yo) using macromedia shockwave flash (swf […]

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Why don’t I write much on Thoughtful Thursday?
Why do I forget  …  ?
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(love this .. sorry, can’t remember who I swiped it off)

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Hello fellow Kiwi bloggers,
Would you like to join a Kiwi Home Educators blog ring?
Your blog doesn’t have to be about homeschooling (exclusively).
But live in or be from New Zealand - and have home educated.
www.ringsurf.com/ring/nr96/ - view - Kiwi Home Educators - just new
www.ringsurf.com/netring?action=addform&ring=nr96 - sign up
 

The best code to copy and paste for the […]

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There are 2 tricks that work with Gmail (and possibly other email providers) to let you use one email address as though it were several different addresses.
1. Gmail lets you add “+something” to your mailbox name and still get your mail. For example, joe@gmail.com and joe+wordpress@gmail.com and joe+secretblog@gmail.com each look like different addresses to our system but […]

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  http://banquet.stumbleupon.com/
Here’s some of the diverse sites I’ve stumbled in the last week or so …
http://scrapbook.com/resources.html - scrapbooking resource library
http://tools.visionmind.net/grader/ - grade your website - put in URL - get free report - easy - simple
http://www.divorcebusting.com/sample_book_chapters.htm - excellent resources for Divorce Busting by Michele Weiner-Davis.
Positive stuff. Solution-oriented Therapy. Sample chapters of her books.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/1-awesome-gmail-tip-you-dont-know-about-seriously/ - how you can use the […]

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