Homeschool Carnival, The Let's Do Lunch Edition

I'd love to tell you some awesome story about how and why this is the Let's Do Lunch edition of the homeschool carnival, but there is no story.  It just occured to me that homeschooling parents are always looking for easy but still frugal and healthy recipes for lunch, since we have to come up with lunch in the middle of the school day, every day, and then clean up the mess.  So I thought I'd share some lunch ideas while sharing the posts others have generously contributed to making this carnival the adventure it is.

Most homeschoolers surely do love their books, books, and more books, and I am definitely one of them:

Kelly @ The Homeschool Co-op presents The Library Card: A Homeschooler's Best Friend posted at The Homeschool Co-op.

Read Aloud Dad presents King Hugo or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Book posted at Read Aloud Dad.

Penney Douglas presents Great Ideas: Enjoying Life with Living Books posted at Changed By Love.

Lunch: You can whip up a batch of these easy spaghetti fritters (use spaghetti noodles if you are gluten free) in the kitchen while your child reads to you- or better yet, let the kids do the whipping up.=)

Science:
Crystals in the kitchen:
Miss Nirvana presents Crystal structures and catching CO2 with Sponge Candy posted at Nirvana Homeschooling.

Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water:
Maureen Sklaroff presents World Water Monitoring Day 2011 posted at Homeschool Mo.

You can have science in the kitchen, too.  You can learn about nutrition, and incorporate this amazingly creamy and rich squash soup into your science studies for the day (and your handwriting, math, home ec, and a lost more)

Keeping a three year old occupied while finishing up a second grader's school in an hour and a half? The Queen of Carrots thinks she can do it, and I bet she can do whatever she sets her minnd to:
Queen of Carrots presents A Schedule I Think Will Work posted at Introducing the World.

Angela Gray presents Taught vs Caught - Team Gray! posted at team Gray!.

Make an easy macaroni and cheese in the crockpot dish- it takes 4-5 hours to cook, so you want to be sure to get up early to start it going.

For your listening pleasure:
Aadel Bussinger presents Top 5 Audio Series for Your Homeschool posted at These Temporary Tents.

Arts and Crafts:
Annette Berlin presents Make Your Own Magnetic Alphabet Toy posted at Craft Stew.

Blessing others-
Gidget presents Do You Know A Blue Rose? posted at Homeschooling Unscripted. (this one brought tears to my eyes),

Make an extra batch of this quick and easy vegetable quiche to share with others, or to freeze and reheat when you need something fast.

Group Projects:

Chesnut Grover Academy has some  Tips for starting a co-op (sorry about the spelling error)

These 'one hand quiche' muffins make excellent travelling lunch for field trips you might take with your co-op.

Curriculum Review:
Danette Schott presents Secret Agent Society for Social Skills posted at Help! S-O-S for Parents.


Labor Day post:
Amanda Ippel presents Come to the Fai Do Do posted at Spilled Milk and Wet Kisses.

Time and Tide Wait For No Man (or homeschooling mom, either):

Veteran homeschooler Linda Dobson began homeschooling in 1985, and her article in Good Housekeeping was one of the first, if not the first, article on homeschooling to appear in a mainstream publication. She graces us with Homeschooling Doesn’t TAKE Time, It MAKES Time posted at PARENT AT THE HELM.



Why Homeschool explains how they use Google Calendar to coordinate a busy homeschool schedule

Christine presents Organise Me posted at Our Curious Home.

Kat presents the school bus soon returns posted at No Fighting, No Biting!.

These enchilada pies save a lot of time, are easy to prepare ahead (or you can just have ground meat browned and frozen in two cup portions in the freezer in advance, and cook a big pot of beans and freeze them in two-four cup sized bags in advance.

Math:

Title of Post: Introducing Place Value - Tens and Ones Game by Adventures at the Kitchen Table
"This is a lesson plan I created for my 4 year old daughter. It is one in a series that introduce place value, skip counting by 10, and the use of Base 10 blocks. This particular lesson features a game that reinforces tens and ones place value."

Two of the easiest lunches we did regularly when my kids were small:

Overbaked potatoes stuffed with cottage cheese and butter

popcorn with fruit and diced cheese

I can't do those now that i am doing the low-carb thing, but there are lots of other easy and frugal ideas here.

Thank-you so much for participating, whether through sending posts or reading them.  Please be kind and leave comments on the blog posts you read- bloggers eat this stuff up.=)