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		<title>Gotta Love AT&amp;T</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our phone and internet went down on Friday afternoon, Feb 19. When we called, they said it should be up by Monday at 5pm. Well, we were actually without a phone and internet for a whole week. All they can credit us is $15!! Whatever happened to customer service! Okay, enough of my whining!!  
What were we to do without internet! Isn’t it amazing how much we use the internet.
With the weather warming up, the kids and I headed outside and raked the yard and picked up pine cones. It was nice to get outside! I definitely need the exercise.
The second day, I started bagging the leaves, but I didn’t even get to half the yard before my back was killing me!! I only got three garbage bags full. To top it off, the past few months when I exert myself, such as mopping the kitchen, I start to wheeze. The wheezing is in my throat and not my chest, so I am not sure if it is asthma. I have never had asthma before, so I am not sure. It goes away about an hour later; during this time I also cough up phlegm. A doctor’s visit is [...More]]]></description>
		<link>http://albright-news.com/blog/2010/02/gotta-love-att/</link>
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		<title>Our Current History Read Alouds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is what we are currently reading for our history studies. We loosely use the Beautiful Feet Guides. I usually add books to the ones already on the booklist. I love how the lessons are short, well, at least when they are written down. Some guides out there scare me with the full page of what to do. Beautiful Feet guides are so easy to navigate. They are separated by day and it can easily be seen what is to be done. The separations are not in calendar form and I think this is what always turned me off to other guides. The chart look I guess. Anyway, I like how it is set up. Each day is no more than a paragraph of what is to be done. And within that paragraph, is what is to be read by pages, map work, writing assignments, and sometimes even questions to be asked.   
They are set up that older kids can take the guide and can do the work themselves. I plan on doing this with the Geography guide for MaryEllen. Of course I will check her work and be there to answer any questions, but it can be [...More]]]></description>
		<link>http://albright-news.com/blog/2010/02/our-current-history-read-alouds/</link>
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		<title>Proverbs 1 Copywork</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son will begin to copy the book of Proverbs. I am thinking for both him and his sister, they will alternate chapters. So after they finish a chapter in Proverbs, then they will do one in Psalms. MaryEllen right now is copying Psalms.
He will only be doing a verse a day, but I want him to concentrate on neatness and letter formation. For now, I am giving him a little, but expecting neat and legible work.
I only made this one in primary lined because only Donnie will be using it. MaryEllen copies straight from the Bible or if I print up a page with the verses on it, she will copy them onto notebook paper. She prefers it that way.
I did include the verses printed out in a size 14 font for the older children.
Proverbs 1

1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto [...More]]]></description>
		<link>http://albright-news.com/blog/2010/02/proverbs-1-copywork/</link>
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		<title>The Monster at The End of This Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Monster at the End of This Book
How many of you remember this book? I do not know what brought it to mind, but I remembered reading it to my little brother when I was a teenager. It was SO much fun!!
Then I got to thinking that I don&#8217;t even own this book, nor have I ever checked it out from the library to read to my own kids!! So, I ordered myself a copy. I couldn&#8217;t wait to read it to the kids.
When it arrived on Thursday, I snuck it into the laundry room so the kids would not see it. I didn&#8217;t want them asking me what was in my package. You know how nosy kids can be especially when they see a package in the mail. Plus, they were still doing their studies and I didn&#8217;t want to distract them. But oh how I so wanted to just say, &#8220;STOP! Mom has a book she wants to read.&#8221; But I didn&#8217;t.  
I waited until story hour at 7:30. Usually we start with the Bible, but that day, I announced that I had a book I wanted to share with them. They got curious when I headed [...More]]]></description>
		<link>http://albright-news.com/blog/2010/02/the-monster-at-the-end-of-this-book/</link>
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		<title>Primary Lined Paper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Donnie is going through the Italic handwriting course, which is going great! I have seen a great improvement in his writing. He is in the third grade, and I never really concentrated too much with him on writing his letters. We did a lot of his work oral up to this point because his writing was so shaky. His letters would come out squiggly. So I figured it was a fine-motor issue.
Well, this year as he was entering 3rd grade, I knew we would have to work and improve on his penmanship because more writing would be required. So, I bought the italic course because it seemed the simplest to do.
I started him out on the first book, the very basic book with just the alphabet. He did a page a day, sometimes two. We made sure he took his time. Sometimes I had him recopy the page on a primary writing pad we had bought some years ago.
He then moved to the second book. And now he is beginning the third book. Even in his everyday writing that he does outside of studies, I can see an improvement.
But as he did his other writing for other subjects on wide [...More]]]></description>
		<link>http://albright-news.com/blog/2010/01/primary-lined-paper/</link>
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