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Punctuation Puzzle – Plural Nouns and Passed-Past Confusion With Cinderella
Welcome to another Punctuation Puzzle! Yep...a puzzle that you solve by putting in the correct punctuation and words/usage fixes--along with explanations and answers about each error! Perfect for students and teachers alike! Today's Puzzle is about plural nouns and...
Character Ink Private Tutoring Online or In Person 2019-2020
Character Ink Private Tutoring Offerings Over the past year since Ray has "semi retired" (lol), he has expanded our class offerings, added a Half-Day Homeschool option for local families, and taken on dozens of private tutoring students. It has been a busy year...
Cottage Classes 2019-2020–Registration Is Open Now!
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Half Day Homeschool Expanded for 2019-2020 School Year
CHARACTER INK HALF DAY HOMESCHOOL STARTS AUGUST 12, 2019! Character Ink will continue its new teaching arm – The half-day homeschool for 4th -12th grades and expand it for K-3rd grades – in which all academics are taught, followed up on, recorded, and graded...
Learn When to Use Who/Whom With Language Lady!
The who/whom question is a tricky one. Out of all “pronouns” (some grammarians call who/whom pronouns; some call them subordinators; some call them...who knows...grammar is so subjective!)...anyway, out of all pronouns, who/whom is the trickiest to use correctly...
Are Proper Adjectives Even a Real Thing?
So many grammar debates, so little time. And here's yet another one: Are proper adjectives a thing? Or are they really just proper noun elements within a common noun? We will likely never know for sure.... However, it really doesn't matter what you call them....
Punctuation Puzzle: Proper Nouns and Quotations with Pinocchio
Welcome to another Punctuation Puzzle! Yep...a puzzle that you solve by putting in the correct punctuation and words/usage fixes--along with explanations and answers about each error! Perfect for students and teachers alike! Today's Puzzle is about Proper Nouns and...
St. Patrick’s Day Pistachio Cake
I made the guys a St. Patrick's Day Pistachio Cake tonight. I actually made two--one for the guys and one to take to a dance tomorrow night. I got the recipe from Just a Pinch and revised it a little. The guys gave it rave reviews! And it was simple! Happy...
12 Tips for Building Emotional Intelligence in Our Children
There is a lot of talk in the world of "adulting" about emotional intelligence. People who are emotionally intelligent know how others are feeling. They know what to say and what not to say in a social media thread. They are aware of their surroundings, etc. I...
My Chance to Vote in 1984
My Chance to Vote in 1984* I like Nixon very much, I like McGovern too. But if I had a chance to vote, I don’t know what I’d do. First, I think I’d panic, Then I’d stand and shout: “Doesn’t anybody know What this election’s all about?” I just...
The Number One Reason I Chose Homeschooling After 32 Years
We used to get asked a lot WHY we homeschooled…like all the time….twenty years ago or more. Nowadays, reasons for homeschooling are as diverse as the number of people homeschooling. There are not just a handful of reasons any more—and many of the reasons...
Eleven Year Old Learns That a Baby In-Utero Is Truly a Baby!
With the partial-birth abortion ruling, our grown children had a lot to ponder and share. They know that a baby is a baby early on--not just because we told them forever or they learned it through their homeschool teaching, but because they experienced it first...
Punctuation Puzzle – Prepositional Phrases and Commas With Dumbo
Welcome to another Punctuation Puzzle! Yep... a puzzle that you solve by putting in the correct punctuation and words/usage fixes -- along with explanations and answers about each error! Perfect for students and teachers alike! Today's Puzzle is about prepositional...
How to Grade the Checklist Challenge
The Checklist Challenge (CC), a challenging checklist of editing tasks, is included in ninety percent of the assignments in all one hundred of my books. It is taught extensively in the first couple lessons in each first semester Meaningful Composition book for...
Thinking of Joining a CI Class or Program in January!?!
It’s mid-school year—that time when we re-evaluate the first semester and try to make changes that will help us meet our goals for our classroom, home, and family in the coming year. For many homeschoolers, meeting some of our academic (and music, arts,...
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