Shortcuts::Key Words

I wanted to share this list with those of you who are homeschooling (or have ones in school) that are doing word problems in math. This has helped my 2nd grader tremendously!

 Key words to look for will help to determine what type of math you will be doing to solve the problem.

Key words/phrases:

Addition:

1. Add

2. Altogether

3. Both

4. In All

5. Sum

6. Total

Subtraction:

1. Difference

2. Fewer

3. less

4. Minus

5. How Many More

6. How Much More

7. Left

8. Need to

9. Remains

10. Subtract

11. Words ending with 'er' {faster, heavier, shorter, longer, slower, fewer, farther, etc.}

EX. John's backpack weighs 5 pounds and Sarah's backpack weighs 3 pounds. How much heavier is John's backpack?

Multiplication Words:

1. Times:  

EX. Maria ran around the track 5 times. It took her 5 minutes to run around the track. How many     minutes did she run?

2. Every: 

EX. Kim buys 2 apples everyday. How many apples does she buy in a week?

3. At this rate: 

EX. Ed reads 25 words per minute. At this rate, how many words does he read in one hour?

Division Words:

1. Each: Ken has 75 pencils and 15 boxes. How many pencils should he pack in each box so each customer gets the same number of pencils?

Hope this helps you. It sure did for us!

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Some of Our Favorites

We are a bunch of books worms over here. We could live at the library {if they had a shower... and a kitchen... and would let us}. We spend many hours a week there, reading, playing, getting school work done.

I wanted to share some of our favorite books with you. These books are so much fun, especially if you read with voices and sound effects!

This book is so much fun and my daughter asks me to read it a million times in one day. I think it helps that I read it with lots of voices and sounds effects. It makes it much more fun!

Again, great, especially with sound effects. This book is so fun. We love to see what will happen next in their adventure to get to the beach.

The Mercy Watson series is fantastic! These are my personal favorites because I love reading Leroy Ninker's voice, such fun!

Of course, no library trip would be complete without bringing home a Fancy Nancy book. We have read them all. Several times.

Another super cute book. this one is good for little boys as well because her best friend friend is Bumble Bee boy. too cute!



These books are great. It's a very fun way for children to learn these points in history. These stories are told with you being the main character. My son (8) loves to read these. My daughter (4) loves to hear them and look at the bright colorful photos.


These are just a few of our favorites I can think of.

We are off to explore our new library today. We are all so excited.

When was the last time you utilized your local library?

Highlighted Teepee

What I love best about my life.

Seeing the fun and joy in everyday items.


While working on prep for the next days lessons my daughter saw joy in my everyday item.

"Look Mama, it's a tent! Like the Indians live in."

She proceeded to run to the toy room and grab this unsuspecting Lego man. He now has a new home.

And I have to find more highlighters.

New items in Shop {and a vacation}

Whew!

I have been a very busy worker bee lately. Being the Queen bee is definitely better... now where did I put that crown?...

Anywho, I have some new product at The Pink Cabbage. If you are local, you really should give them a visit. You will not be disappointed, promise!

Here are a few items I made for the shop. {Please excuse the unedited, poorly taken photos, I was in a hurry}

Notebooks:


Clipboards:

I have other items and am also creating new product for the Holidays. See something you like? Shoot me an email and I can create it for you. :)

In other news, we are leaving this morning for.... VACATION! yay!!! I am so excited, and it is looong overdue.

We are heading to the cabin and are going to surround ourselves with family, nature, and no electronics. That's right! No blogging, no FB, no twitter, no cell phone, no.... wait, maybe this isn't such a good idea...

Just kidding, I can't wait. We are all so very excited to get away for a little bit. The joy of homeschooling, we can take a vacation in September and not worry one bit about "school".

See you all when we get back! Enjoy your week.