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Panna Cotta
I almost forgot to share this delicious recipe with you for panna cotta. If you’ll remember I made this last week for an Italian dinner I had with some friends. Since I promised you the recipe this week, I’m posting it in today. Saturday. I have been very busy this week shipping lots of books since my daughter was needing a break. There was no time for morning blogging unfortunately! I had never made Panna Cotta before but I found this recipe by David Lebovitz who has a food blog called the same. It looked simple but delicious and besides I’m always ready to try a new recipe. So I did. We drank this…
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Facts About the Colonel and His Famous KFC Coleslaw Recipe
How much do you really know about Colonel Sanders, the man behind Kentucky Fried Chicken? 1. Harland David Sanders was his full name 2. He was born in Indiana 3. His father died when he was 5 4. Because his mother worked he had to cook 5. He dropped out of school in 7th grade 6. When his mother remarried, the stepfather beat Colonel Sanders and so he ran away from home 7. He had several different jobs and finally enlisted in the Army at the age of 16 (fibbing about his age) 9. He had a gas station in Kentucky and started cooking chicken for his customers at the…
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How Learning & Behavior Can Be Affected by Diet
At our recent homeschool convention in Phoenix there was a speaker named Dianne Craft who has extensively worked with struggling learners and gave so much information to those of us who attended her class. You can read what I learned from her classes in Part I… “Do You Have a Struggling Learner”, Part II… Teaching the Right Brain Child and Part III… Additional Thoughts on Teaching the Right Brain Child. I went to Dinanne’s class called The Biology of Learning and Behavior not realizing just how much information I would glean. The name wasn’t too intriguing but I had received so much information from her in the previous classes that I…
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Teaching the Right Brain Child
The classes by Dianne Craft that I went to at our homeschool convention here in Arizona, were so enlightening. Dianne has many years of experience teaching children with disabilities. You can read my post about Dianne Craft and struggling learners here. She taught a few classes on how to recognize whether your child is a right brain or left brain child and how to teach the right brain child. Here is an article from her website about Teaching the Right Brain Child. Now for some notes of what I learned… Some characteristics of right brain learners: * Spontaneous * Imaginative * Intuitive (understands reading material, even if he doesn’t know all…
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Do You Have a Struggling Learner?
In lieu of my normal Week in Review, I am going to share some of what I learned this weekend at our homeschool convention. I am so very excited to have learned this information and I can’t stop telling people about it, so dear readers, you get to be a part of it, too! I went to a workshop by Dianne Craft whose specialty is Special Needs and she also has become a nutritionist. Her website is here at diannecraft.com. Dianne was an excellent speaker, doing an incredible job sharing the knowledge she has learned in the last 35+ years helping children who have learning difficulties. She was also quite…
