{"id":2566,"date":"2013-03-07T11:09:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T18:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2013-03-07T11:11:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T18:11:53","slug":"not-so-new-fangled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/?p=2566","title":{"rendered":"Not so new fangled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last year or so, light tables have been a big deal in the momma blogger \/ homeschool scene.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s funny because we&#8217;ve been playing with light a very long time, although certainly not with a fancy, big table.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a very old LightTracer box picked up years and years ago for tracing images for scrapping.\u00c2\u00a0 It is not as versatile as the ones I have seen out there in blogland.\u00c2\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t want to bring in anything wet or messy on it.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve played with see through pony beads and petri dishes, translucent geo tiles, layering tissue paper, \u00c2\u00a0and those multi colored flat vase filler marbles.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 As overhead projectors become a thing of the past due to document cameras and smart boards, etc, I keep an eye on the clearance section of educational supply web sites.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve picked up a bunch of accessories designed for the overhead for rock bottom prices &#8212; dominos, word tiles, base 10 pieces, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Today Little LE was making sentences with a word tiles.\u00c2\u00a0 At 46 months she is recognizing about 2 dozen words (family names, some basic sight words, and some CVC words like cat, sun, etc), but most of the words were unfamiliar.\u00c2\u00a0 She&#8217;d put together a &#8220;sentence&#8221; and then have me read it and laugh at its silliness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/0033.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2567\" alt=\"003\" src=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/0033-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/0033-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/0033-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last year or so, light tables have been a big deal in the momma blogger \/ homeschool scene.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s funny because we&#8217;ve been playing with light a very long time, although certainly not with a fancy, big table.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a very old LightTracer box picked up years and years ago for tracing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}