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Every once in a while and totally unintentionally my brain spews out a good idea.

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#MyForeverFamily Challenge

March 7, 2016 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 2 Comments

You may have noticed all my posts last week centered on family history. I loved writing about the ways we “do” family history! It doesn’t have to be boring. We make the dash between the birth and death dates of our ancestors come alive. You can too! I have joined with 14 other bloggers this […]

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Using Dolls to Share Family History Stories

March 2, 2016 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 3 Comments

As part of our female family history unit study my mom came up with this ingenious idea! My girls love their American Girl Dolls so my mom thought, “Why not use those dolls to share family history stories?” She sewed doll outfits to represent our different ancestors. This outfit represents the ones my sister, Vanessa, […]

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Female Family History

March 1, 2016 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 5 Comments

Julie B. Beck once said, “We study our history to learn who we are. There is a worldwide hunger among good women to know their identity, value, and importance.”  Though Sister Beck was talking about learning the history of Relief Society, I think this applies to our family history as well. The Relief Society began […]

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Christmas School 2014

December 11, 2014 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 1 Comment

chocolate peppermint pretzels

December always seems to be busy. I usually try to plan and prepare before it begins but you know how it goes. Even the best laid plans can get derailed! We’ve enjoyed spending our mornings doing Christmas school. Of course we are doing the scripture advent countdown and I’m also reading a bit each day […]

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Hands of a Child Lapbooks on Sale

August 15, 2014 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} Leave a Comment

Down on the farm lapbook

Looking for a little extra something to add to your homeschool studies this year? How about something to do with your kids on the weekends or when they get home from school? Lapbooks are the answer! They are fun and interactive and a great way to organize everything your child has learned. We enjoy doing […]

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Christmas With the Prophets

December 9, 2012 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 4 Comments

This is a repost from one I wrote last year for Latter-day Homeschooling. David O. McKay giving a sleigh ride to family members  Every year we forego all the scholarly studies for December and focus our attention on Christmas instead. We have what we call “Christmas School.” Last year we had Christmas with the Prophets. […]

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Learning About the Reformation

October 10, 2012 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 7 Comments

Quick, what is October 31st known for? Halloween is not an acceptable answer! Do you know? Here are a few clues. It happened in 1517. Elder M. Russell Ballard said, “the Spirit of Christ moved a Catholic priest living in Germany.” It launched the Protestant Reformation. Still don’t have a clue? On October 31, 1517 […]

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Christmas Traditions: Christmas School

December 6, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 8 Comments

One of the great benefits of homeschooling is tailoring not only our schedule but what we study. I schedule our school year so that we have all of December off from normal studies. Because I don’t want our daily schedule to be thrown off too much we replace our ‘scholarly’ studies with Christmas school. This […]

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Learning About the Reformation

October 14, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 4 Comments

This is a post I wrote for Latter-day Homeschooling. I thought I’d share it here too as my homeschooling post for the week. Quick, what is October 31st known for? Halloween is not an acceptable answer! Do you know? Here are a few clues. It happened in 1517. Elder Ballard said, “the Spirit of Christ […]

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Christmas in Spain

December 7, 2010 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 63 Comments

Christmas Around the World with CurrClick has partnered with myself and nine other homeschool bloggers this week. Each one of us will be giving goodies away during our bloggy event so be sure to check the schedule and stop by each site to learn about Christmas in other countries, enter the giveaways and maybe even […]

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Christmas School

November 30, 2010 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 9 Comments

Every year we take December off from our usual scholarly studies to focus on Christmas School. In the past we have done Christmas carols, Names of Christ, Christmas Symbols, etc. I also like to throw in some fun mini units about snowflakes, or hot chocolate, or gingerbread. ☺ This year we will be doing two […]

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The Symbols of Christmas

December 3, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} Leave a Comment

“Christmas is such a joyful time of year. The spirit of brotherly kindness and charity is more evident in the hearts of men. We feel a greater desire to serve and give to others. Unfortunately, the true meaning of Christmas and what we, as Christians, celebrate can easily be lost because of all the commercialism […]

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Paul Revere’s Ride

April 18, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 3 Comments

“Listen my children and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famous day and year.” Boy do I ever remember having to memorize that poem in Mrs. Humble’s 8th grade literature class! Thankfully we only had to memorize the first […]

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Flakes are Fun!

January 20, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 7 Comments

Mommytime posted on Mommy’s Martini yesterday about all the snow they’ve been getting but more importantly how she took the time to look closely at the snow and see the beauty of each individual snowflake. It reminded me of one of the funnest unit studies we’ve ever done – not on snow but on snowflakes. […]

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Names of Christ FHE

December 14, 2008 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 3 Comments

Here is another of our Christmas unit studies turned into a family home evening lesson. Every year we learn other names Jesus is known by in the scriptures such as Shiloh, Messiah, Bread of Life, etc. Learning these names helps us learn more about what Christ has done for us and what His attributes are. […]

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Hello, I'm Montserrat. I'm a farmer's wife, mother of eleven, homeschooler, chocoholic, music lover, and like to play a good game of Scrabble. You can read more about me here. . .

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