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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 22

By KristinN, on March 16th, 2012

Boy this week went fast. It seemed like I woke up and it was Friday. This week seemed that it was

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TV Series Mocks Christians, Undermines Liberty

By KristinN, on March 13th, 2012

ABC-TV has decided that it can take direct aim at Christians with what amounts to hate speech. This is the premise

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 21

By KristinN, on March 10th, 2012

OK, you all know what my first words are going to be. This was a great week as usual. We started

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 20

By KristinN, on March 2nd, 2012

This week was cut a bit short. Yesterday afternoon both my kids and the entire household

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Heart of Dakota:Bigger Week 19

By KristinN, on February 24th, 2012

OK, OK, here are those famous words once again. We had a great week. Actually it was short. I actually combined Friday's

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Art

FREE Curriculm and FREE Resources

By KristinN, on February 12th, 2012

I want to make very sure that it is well known that not all of these sites I have posted are Christian,

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 18 Update

By KristinN, on February 10th, 2012

So I say it every week, another good week. I think it is about time to come up with a

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Homeschooler Buyers Co-op

By KristinN, on February 9th, 2012

So I realized there are many homeschoolers who have not heard of Homeschool Buyers Co-op. Just in my small Park Day group only

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HSLDA High School Teacher Training Programs

By KristinN, on February 8th, 2012

This post is really only for those living in the Virginia area or who really want to travel to Virginia. It

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Blackline Maps for Free

By KristinN, on February 6th, 2012

I love using maps in my homeschooling. I know I am using Heart of Dakota and they pretty much have everything

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 17 Update

By KristinN, on February 3rd, 2012

Daniel Boone! What a man! I do not think I could do half of what he did or expected his

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Contests

Composer Study Contest

By KristinN, on January 30th, 2012

You know ,Composer studies have been one of the areas I have not done well in over the last 5 years of homeschooling. So

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 16

By KristinN, on January 27th, 2012

Back to school this week. As

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Chart Your Course To High School Success!

By KristinN, on January 25th, 2012

I know some of you are much closer then I am to the Highschool years, So when I saw

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History/Geography

California History

By KristinN, on January 24th, 2012

Fourth Grade California History Education Program

Dear Irvine Park Railroad

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Blackline Maps for FREE

By KristinN, on January 20th, 2012

I am a firm believer in using map as much as you possibly can. As a child growing up I remember that maps

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QUIET MOM!

By KristinN, on January 17th, 2012

L LLL aryngitis

/ˌlærənˈdʒaɪtɪs/ [lar-uhn-jahy-tis]

Inflammation of the larynx, often with accompaning sore thorat, horseness or loss of voice, and dry cough.

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 15

By KristinN, on January 13th, 2012

We had an exceptionally fantastic week this week. You see my daughter took a huge step in Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 15

Free Study Guide To The U.S. Constitution

By KristinN, on January 12th, 2012

I saw the other day, Charles Vincent from the "Official Wire" online paper saw that The People's Guide to the US

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Proud to be an American

By KristinN, on January 9th, 2012

As we learn about early American Proud to be an American

Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 14

By KristinN, on January 6th, 2012

My poor little girl was very sick for the first three days of Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 14

Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 13 update

By KristinN, on December 23rd, 2011

This was a lazy week for us. We did not do much of the academic things, but we kept up

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Contests

Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 12

By KristinN, on December 17th, 2011

This is a hard time of year for me to stay focused on Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 12

Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 11 update

By KristinN, on December 9th, 2011

It was interesting on Day one of Unit 11 how it talked about finding out where we came from. My

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 10 update

By KristinN, on December 3rd, 2011

What a great week. Well, I have to be honest, it was HARD at first. You see we had two

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Let’s Play

By KristinN, on November 29th, 2011

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Does Nagging Work?

By KristinN, on November 25th, 2011

I was many years into parenting before I realized that the most powerful tool in my toolbox, masterful nagging, did not work.

I would remind,

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Teaching Writing in a Text-Message World

By KristinN, on November 20th, 2011

Writing is not going away.

In fact, writing is on the uptick!

A case can be made that writing is becoming

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Eisenhower

By KristinN, on November 18th, 2011

One of my favorite things to do is to go on hikes, have the kids wade in streams and look for all sorts of different

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Encouraging Kids Along the Path to Learning

By KristinN, on November 15th, 2011

The words path to learning offer us a great word picture. Word pictures (metaphors) can help us visualize and grab

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 9 Update

By KristinN, on November 13th, 2011

So I know most of you who may have gotten this post a few days ago are saying where is

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 8 Update

By KristinN, on November 5th, 2011

So am I a bad Mom? This week was just off. Every night starting Sunday night we went to bed

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Cookbook and Christmas Cards!

By KristinN, on November 2nd, 2011

I am a huge advocate for HSLDA, in case you all have not figured that out by now. So because of that I

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Lighthouse Publications Giveaway and Sweepstakes

By KristinN, on October 29th, 2011

Hey, I just received an email form Lighthouse Publications because I have purchased things from them in the past. Anyway, they are doing

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 7 Update

By KristinN, on October 28th, 2011

OMGosh, we forgot to play Jeopardy this week. Our week started out pretty slow. This week with HOD I felt

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 6 Update

By KristinN, on October 21st, 2011

We have a very unusual schedule. We typically do Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 6 Update

HSLDA sponsoring One Nation Under God event

By KristinN, on October 19th, 2011

Our nation was founded on Biblical principles, but we have lost sight of

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How to Keep a Strong Voice for Homeschooling in Sacramento

By KristinN, on October 14th, 2011

Most of you are probably saying where is NutBugs Heart of Dakota Weekly Update this week. Well,

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 5 update

By KristinN, on October 8th, 2011

Ok, I realized I need to purchase a thesaurus for the phrase" We had a great week" I keep saying that

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California Homeschoolers

By KristinN, on October 6th, 2011

I am not sure if all of you have seen this from HSLDA or not, so I thought I would re-post it here. This is

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Affidavit Time

By KristinN, on October 4th, 2011

It's time once again to file the Private School Affidavit

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Economy

Multiple Streams of Homeschooling Income

By KristinN, on October 3rd, 2011

Most of you who know me personally know that my husband

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Educating Children with Dyslexia

By KristinN, on October 1st, 2011

I know a lot of my readers have struggling children with Dyslexia. I have a friend who just found out why she has been

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Art

Heart of Dakota Week 4 update

By KristinN, on September 29th, 2011

Ok, so this week was not as exciting and good as last week, BUT, it had nothing to do with our

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Tanaka Farms has Free Petting Zoo!

By KristinN, on September 29th, 2011

Hey all you Southern California residents, Fall is here and the pumpkins are flourishing at Tanaka Farms! Opening weekend is here

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Seashore Videos

By KristinN, on September 26th, 2011

I had several people write to me saying they live in an area where they are not even close to a beach

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Heart of Dakota Week 3

By KristinN, on September 23rd, 2011

Well, this week was pretty good. Our hick up was Math for my son. You see my son hates math. Probably

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Homeschool Toolbar

By KristinN, on September 19th, 2011

Have some of you ever wondered what other homeschool blogs are out there that are about homeschooling? Have you done a search on Google or

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Heart Of Dakota Week 2

By KristinN, on September 16th, 2011

As suspected, we had another wonderful week. Currently we are learning about things on the sea shores and I finally thought

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Help Me I am Failing at Homeschooling

By KristinN, on September 14th, 2011

I wanted to repost this letter here and share my answer to this common homeschooling problem with first timers as

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Trying a New Curriculum: Heart of Dakota Week 1

By KristinN, on September 9th, 2011

This year I am trying a whole new Trying a New Curriculum: Heart of Dakota Week 1

Heartfelt Music

By KristinN, on September 5th, 2011

You know a while back I use to be in a group called Heartfelt. It was originally a quartet then we made it into 5

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Book/E-Book

Homeschooling Library

By KristinN, on September 3rd, 2011

BOOKS ARE EXPENSIVE! I'd love to add a ton of educational literature to my homeschool library, but purchasing them can be extremely expensive. Well I

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Am I Sheltering My Child Too Much?

By KristinN, on August 28th, 2011

Did you all see the article by Gena Suarez that Old Am I Sheltering My Child Too Much?

English

All About Spelling

By KristinN, on August 22nd, 2011

I did it! I found the best spelling program ever! The program

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Art

Art Class

By KristinN, on August 20th, 2011

From October 2010 to June 2011 We were involved in an Art class with our homeschooling group. We had so much fun with this class.

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History/Geography

Timeline in a Box

By KristinN, on August 18th, 2011

You know timelines can be a very useful thing in homeschooling, but there are some of us homeschoolers that just have no idea

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Response to Alarming Recommendations by Miami-Dade County Grand Jury

By KristinN, on August 10th, 2011

I just received an email from HSLDA in regards to this. I know that this does not affect

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A New School Year

By KristinN, on July 29th, 2011

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Dream-Driven Kids…Why They Succeed

By KristinN, on July 5th, 2011

When you were young, did you tell your parents (or anyone) your dreams?

Maybe you yearned to be the fastest runner in the world?

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The Importance of Good Pencil Posture

By KristinN, on June 30th, 2011

Learning and The Importance of Good Pencil Posture

HSLDA Members and Friends:

By KristinN, on June 25th, 2011

Dear HSLDA Members and Friends:

You know that HSLDA’s free e-lert service brings the latest news to your inbox.

But when you want in-depth analysis

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The L.A. County Fair

By KristinN, on June 20th, 2011

Have you always wanted to go to the county fairs for educating your children more then the rides and food, but never do

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Knights of the Angel Realm

By KristinN, on June 15th, 2011

I just finished reading a good easy read and a very expressive book titled, “Knights of the

K12 curriculum

By KristinN, on June 11th, 2011

I have been seeing the commercials on TV for the K-12 homeschool Continue reading K12 curriculum

Who Is Your Child?

By KristinN, on June 7th, 2011

By Virginia Vagt

Children are all so different. We're with our children a lot. So we think we know them. And we do know

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CHEA Convention is Here

By KristinN, on June 3rd, 2011

OK, so you are thinking, Kristin, what is the big deal about going to a homeschool convention? Well, let me tell you, as

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Gleaning Opportunity

By KristinN, on May 27th, 2011

Ok, so if you all live in the Orange County area of Southern California, then I have an opportunity for you and your family. Tanka

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’19 Free Gifts’

By KristinN, on May 22nd, 2011

Have you heard about the '19 Free Gifts' Promotion from our friends at The Old Schoolhouse Magazine?

Subscribe to TOS (or

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Happy Easter

By KristinN, on April 22nd, 2011

Ok, I think most of you have heard of Rebecca Black and her Friday video. Personally, I think for such a young teen, she did

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What is Easter?

By KristinN, on April 20th, 2011

On Easter Sunday, most Christians celebrate the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Did you know that this is typically the most well-attended Sunday

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Crafts

Free Easter LapBook

By KristinN, on April 16th, 2011

I know some of you have no idea what a lapbook is and others of you just absolutely love the thought of lapbooks. So

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Contests

HSLDA Poetry Contest

By KristinN, on April 10th, 2011

2011 Guidelines
Submission Dates: May 1 through June 1 2011!

Entry Form

Click image above to download ( requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Poetry Contest Archives
2010

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Update on CHEA Pacific Convention

By KristinN, on March 31st, 2011

Hello NITZ Family,

We at CHEA are looking forward to seeing many of you at the Pacific Homeschool SuperConference in just a few

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HSLDA Information Regarding the Election

By KristinN, on March 27th, 2011

Co-hosted by CHEA of California and HSLDA
In cooperation with the Nevada Homeschool Network and Oregon Christian Home Education Association Network

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Project Play

By KristinN, on March 16th, 2011

Did you know?

Since 1980, the childhood obesity rate has more than doubled for children ages 2

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Book/E-Book

Free Online Class

By KristinN, on March 13th, 2011

You all know CurrClick is one of my favorite e-book/e-Free Online Class

The Race

By KristinN, on March 11th, 2011

I didn’t have to go. He had already caught a ride with friends early in the morning while we slept. But I didn’t want my

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6-Year-Old Hauled to Psych Ward Despite Parent’s Wishes

By KristinN, on February 22nd, 2011

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Outsourcing Life

By KristinN, on January 25th, 2011

When a builder builds a house, he subcontracts much of the work. The carpenter has a job; the plumber puts in the pipes. Together, they

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Simple New Year, Simple Fresh Start

By KristinN, on January 23rd, 2011

New Year and change go together. We make New Year resolutions to promise ourselves change. We want to insure that this

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CHEA Newsletter

By KristinN, on January 21st, 2011

For those of you who live in Southern California like myself, you are probably very aware of CHEA and may even be

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Computer

Lego Club

By KristinN, on January 15th, 2011

I am sure many of you have either gone onto CurrClick many times before or at least have heard of it. Well, they offer these

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Following the Rules

By KristinN, on January 11th, 2011

I was going to write an article about how you have a new year upon us and how we should start the new year

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Celebrate Cerebrodiversity!

By KristinN, on January 7th, 2011

Men are from _______ , Women are from _______ . That boy just can't sit _______. Are you _______ to me? Keep your _______ on the

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New Year - New Vision

By KristinN, on January 3rd, 2011

New Year's resolutions are fleeting things, leaving our minds with the next distraction. Rather than making resolutions, seek renewal. Renewal of yourself,

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