Uuggh! Hard week this week. We were so out and about this week I felt as if we never had time for anything and that we were pushing all week to finish school early! Oh well, that is OK. We got
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 June 9th, 2012 | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | Well, we are still reading about the Wright Brother's and their sister. Once again, we are really enjoying that book! I have to admit these last couple weeks we have put off doing our story-time, bad Mama. Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 31 June 2nd, 2012 | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | OMGosh! There is only 4 weeks left of school. I am not sure if I am happy or sad. I love teaching the kids so much, but I am ready for a little break. Well, anyway, this week was a good Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 30 May 25th, 2012 | Tags: Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, FREE, Good, Heart of Dakota, High, HOD, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Personal, Schooled, Schooling, Unit Studies, What | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Well week 29 is over and we start if all off with our continued reading about the Wright Brothers. They really were very interesting people. Both the kids and myself have really enjoyed learning about all their Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 29 May 18th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Personal, School, Schooled, Schooling, Unit Studies, What | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Oh my, I think I have short timers’ syndrome. There is only 5 more weeks left of school and even though I enjoy school so Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 28 May 12th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, High, HOD, Home, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Personal, Public, Reviews, School, Started, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | With my recent studies on a healthy lifestyle and eating for optimal health, I have had a transition to become a Ovo-Lacto vegetarian. I have been doing tons of research about protein, vegetarianism, soybeans, eating of God's bountiful earth pre-flood etc. And when I came across this article about soybeans I figured it would be a Continue reading Soybeans; What’s New and Beneficial About Soybeans There is only a few weeks left of school. I still cannot believe we are on week 27. This week we learned about John Muir. OK, I say this every once in a while, I had no idea who he was. Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 27 May 5th, 2012 | Tags: About, Best, Children, Cost, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Find, Good, Heart of Dakota, High, HOD, Home, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Public, Reviews, Schooling, Unit Studies, What, Your | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | Just a reminder of the upcoming Homeschool Convention coming this month. There is also the CHEA convention in July which I post on that in a few short weeks. Meanwhile, here is another opportunity to learn more about homeschooling or to just get geared up for fall or even to just take a break Continue reading California Homeschool Convention in Long Beach This week we finally were able to learn about one of most beloved Presidents, Abraham Lincoln. I happen to have a few books at home specifically about him so I had my son read these out loud Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 26 April 28th, 2012 | Tags: Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Home, Homeschool, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Personal, Public, Reviews, Schooling, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Unit Studies | OK, I know you all are asking why I got this post out so late! I just got real lazy this weekend and did not feel like typing or anything. Truth is, as most of my longtime readers know, I have migraines and this week was just a real bad week for them. I had Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 25 April 23rd, 2012 | Tags: Best, Children, Cost, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Grader, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Online, Parents, Personal, Public, School, Schooling, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Well, it was nice to have a break for Easter. I hemmed and Hawed over taking a break since we just had a week off due to illness. But I decided "I" needed the break. Anyway, this week was a great week learning about several different people Our first journey was geography. Hey this activity Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 24 April 6th, 2012 | Tags: Bible, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Have, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, learning, Online, Parents, Public, Reviews, School, Schooling, study, What | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life |
I just got this email this morning, so I thought I would post it right away. Hopefully some of you will be able to take advantage of thiswebcast TODAY!
Like to share homeschooling with others? Join Melanie Hexter for "Spreading the Home Webcast – Spreading The Homeschool Message April 4th, 2012 | Tags: Homeschool, homeschool message, Homeschooling: All Things, share, webcast | Category: Articles, FREE, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News | Mandatory Kindergarten??
Please be prepared to take action against AB 2203. HSLDA President Mike Smith has been an advocate of homeschooling for more than 30 years. Read more >> From: Roy Hanson—Family Protection Ministries and Mike Smith—HSLDA Bill: AB 2203 (as introduced 2/23/12)—5-Year-Old Compulsory Education Author: Continue reading Mandatory Kindergarten (CA) Bill Delayed April 3rd, 2012 | Tags: 5-Year-Old Compulsory Education, AB 2203, Assembly Education Committee, compulsory education, Family Protection Ministries, Homeschooling: All Things, HSLDA, In the News, Kindergarten | Category: Articles, Holidays, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News | I just saw the greatest video. You know our dogs love us unconditionally. They are patient with us, forgive us when we are unkind, wait for us to come home and most of all can make us happy when we are down. Hmmmm, sounds like God! Well, I have to say this week was not the most fun week. I guess because I was coming off of being very sick last week and having to push our Easter break back a couple weeks. And to top it all off, I did not prepare for this week. You see I usually on Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 23 March 30th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Home, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Reviews, School, Schooling, Unit Studies, What | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Oppose Expansion of Government Control over Education Act now to oppose AB 2203. HSLDA President Mike Smith has been an advocate of homeschooling for more than 30 years. Read more >> From: Roy Hanson’s Family Protection Ministries and Mike Smith’s HSLDA Bill: AB 2203 (as Continue reading Oppose Expansion of Government Control over Education Boy this week went fast. It seemed like I woke up and it was Friday. This week seemed that it was an easier week for school. Hmmm, well, easier may not be the right word. More like a simple than normal Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 22 March 16th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Home, Homeschooling: All Things, Online, Parents, Personal, Reviews, School, Schooled, Schooling, Unit Studies, Work | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | ABC-TV has decided that it can take direct aim at Christians with what amounts to hate speech. This is the premise of its new program GCB (which stands for Good Christian B*****es). We need to fight back. This program ridicules Christians, Christianity, the Bible, and Christian symbols in ways that would be unthinkable if aimed Continue reading TV Series Mocks Christians, Undermines Liberty March 13th, 2012 | Tags: ABC, christians, GCB, Good Christian Bitches, HSLDA, In the News, Ridicule Christians | Category: Articles, Biblical, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News | OK, you all know what my first words are going to be. This was a great week as usual. We started off learning about our 7th President, Andrew Jackson. So one of the things I did was to do flash cards for the first 5 Presidents. I happen to have had these for some years Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 21 March 10th, 2012 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, FREE, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Personal, Reviews, Schooled, Schooling, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | This week was cut a bit short. Yesterday afternoon both my kids and the entire household came down with fevers. So needless to say we only completed 4 days of the 5 days for week 20. That is OK, we will just do Friday on Monday and then combine unit Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 20 March 2nd, 2012 | Tags: Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Reviews, School, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | OK, OK, here are those famous words once again. We had a great week. Actually it was short. I actually combined Friday's material to Thursday so I could have Friday off. You see my son's is turning 10 tomorrow (2-25) and I wanted to have Friday to get everything ready for his little party at Continue reading Heart of Dakota:Bigger Week 19 February 24th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Grader, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Program, Public, School, Schooled, Schooling, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life, Reviews | I want to make very sure that it is well known that not all of these sites I have posted are Christian, so please visit them first to make sure you approve of them before you send your children there. I have not seen anything myself that was completely wrong or offensive or even Continue reading FREE Curriculm and FREE Resources February 12th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, FREE, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Reviews | Category: Art, Bible, Biblical, Computer, Crafts, Curriculum Reviews, English, Foriegn Language, FREE, History/Geography, Holidays, Homeschooling: All Things, Lesson Planning, Math, Music, Organization, Reading, Reviews, Science, Unit Studies, Writing | So I say it every week, another good week. I think it is about time to come up with a new opening line to my HOD updates. But it really is true. This week was not only good in school, but Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 18 Update February 10th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Home, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Program, Reviews, School, Schooled, Schooling, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | So I realized there are many homeschoolers who have not heard of Homeschool Buyers Co-op. Just in my small Park Day group only a couple of us have ever heard of this web site. So I figured I have thousands of readers and there has to be many of you who have not heard of it Continue reading Homeschooler Buyers Co-op February 9th, 2012 | Tags: curriculum discounts, Curriculum Reviews, curriculum sales, discount, ebooks, FREE, homeschool confrence, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, School, Schooled, Unit Studies | Category: Articles, Book/E-Book, Computer, Curriculum Reviews, Economy, English, Foriegn Language, FREE, History/Geography, Homeschooling: All Things, Math, Music, Personal Life, Reading, Sales, Science, Seminar/Confrence, Unit Studies, Writing | This post is really only for those living in the Virginia area or who really want to travel to Virginia. It is also for those who have or are approaching High School time. HSLDA (which you should all be a member Continue reading HSLDA High School Teacher Training Programs I love using maps in my homeschooling. I know I am using Heart of Dakota and they pretty much have everything outlined for me in geography, but I still like to add in map skills whenever I can. I found a couple of sites that has some really great black-line maps for FREE and they Continue reading Blackline Maps and the 50 States February 6th, 2012 | Tags: 50 states, black line maps, blackline maps, Curriculum Reviews, free maps, maps, states, Unit Studies, united states, united states maps, world maps, worldmaps | Category: FREE, History/Geography, Homeschooling: All Things | Daniel Boone! What a man! I do not think I could do half of what he did or expected his family to do! This week learning about how this Frontiers-man crossed over form Pennsylvania to North Carolina to Tennessee then on to Kentucky was amazing. We even mapped it for Geography. See the picture below! Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 17 Update February 3rd, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Home School, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Parents, Reviews, School, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | You know ,Composer studies have been one of the areas I have not done well in over the last 5 years of homeschooling. So when I was directed to take a look at World's Greatest Composer Volume #1 for a well rounded composer study that includes Notebooking as well as Lapbooking, I figured I Continue reading Composer Study Contest Back to school this week. As you all know I had to take off last week because I did not have a voice to teach with. I still can not sing a lyc, but at least I can teach. So this Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 16
Fourth Grade California History Education Program Dear Irvine Park Railroad Friends, We are now accepting reservations for Irvine Park Railroad's Fourth Grade California California History January 24th, 2012 | Category: History/Geography, Homeschooling: All Things, Local Mom Review | I am a firm believer in using map as much as you possibly can. As a child growing up I remember that maps were only used in geography and even then it was minimal. Therefore as an adult I really had a hard time knowing where things were when people would talk about world events. Continue reading Blackline Maps for FREE January 20th, 2012 | Category: FREE, History/Geography, Homeschooling: All Things, Local Mom Review | We had an exceptionally fantastic week this week. You see my daughter took a huge step in school this week. Usually she can sometimes be disruptive during the readings and when I ask her to retell, of course after I Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 15 January 13th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Heart of Dakota, History/Geography, HOD, Science, timeline | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | I saw the other day, Charles Vincent from the "Official Wire" online paper saw that The People's Guide to the US Constitution American Handbook Publishing has just released a free Educator’s, Homeschool and Self-Study guides to the United States Constitution which is available at www.constitutionguide.com. These accessory texts (you still have to buy the book) to Continue reading Free Study Guide To The U.S. Constitution My poor little girl was very sick for the first three days of school this week. I have to admit, as bad as it may sound, that it was actually really nice to only Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 14 This was a lazy week for us. We did not do much of the academic things, but we kept up on our history, science, Bible study and math. We enjoyed the Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 13 update December 23rd, 2011 | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | This is a hard time of year for me to stay focused on school. With all the performances either that I am in or I am directing and parties and shopping and cleaning and preparing. Uugghh, it can over-take my mind and Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 12 December 17th, 2011 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Homeschool Curriculum, Kids, School, Unit Studies | Category: Contests, HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Unit Studies | It was interesting on Day one of Unit 11 how it talked about finding out where we came from. My son went right to the map and touch Poland, Austria, Czech and Germany. We really did not get a chance to call anyone, but we talked to Grandma for a few minutes about her parents Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 11 update December 9th, 2011 | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | What a great week. Well, I have to be honest, it was HARD at first. You see we had two weeks of vacation. One week away from home and then a week at home. So Monday was not easy to get back into the swing of things, but once we got the week going, by Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 10 update December 3rd, 2011 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Reviews, School, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Reviews, Unit Studies | I am sure that most of my readers read the article put out by CurrClick about Play. I thought it was such a great article, that I wanted to re-post it for those who may have Continue reading Let’s Play 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, leave notes, cajole, tease, nag and harangue. Guess what? It didn't matter a bit. In fact, they acquired an uncanny ability to tune me out. The more animated Continue reading Does Nagging Work? Writing is not going away. In fact, writing is on the uptick! A case can be made that writing is becoming our culture's dominant form of communication. Email, text messages, tweets, and blog entries are all done in writing. Even on our electronic phones we do more texting than talking. Continue reading Teaching Writing in a Text-Message World 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 type of animals, draw in their nature journal and just have some good old fashion fun without all the play equipment. However, here in Orange County, California, most of the Continue reading Eisenhower Park The words path to learning offer us a great word picture. Word pictures (metaphors) can help us visualize and grab hold of a big concept and a deep meaning. The word "education" is not a word picture. While the word "education" has plenty of meaning, it's hard to picture. And the word itself may Continue reading Encouraging Kids Along the Path to Learning So I know most of you who may have gotten this post a few days ago are saying where is the actual blog post? Well, I am on vacation and so far until this very moment I have not had a chance to sit down and write. So I thought I will just post the Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 9 Update November 13th, 2011 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Homeschool Curriculum, Reviews, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | So am I a bad Mom? This week was just off. Every night starting Sunday night we went to bed no earlier then 10:30pm. Ok, now my kids go to be by 8:30 maybe 9:00 if I Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 8 Update November 5th, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Reviews, Unit Studies | OMGosh, we forgot to play Jeopardy this week. Our week started out pretty slow. This week with HOD I felt was a little slower and not quite as much to do as normal, but let me make darn sure you realize that this is NOT a complaint. It was actually nice, since towards the end Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 7 Update October 28th, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Local Mom Review, Personal Life, Reviews, Unit Studies | We have a very unusual schedule. We typically do school for 5 weeks and then take a week off of course during the holiday season it gets a bit tricky. Well, for those of you who follow my blog closely, you Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 6 Update October 21st, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life, Reviews, Unit Studies | Our nation was founded on Biblical principles, but we have lost sight of this in today�s culture. That is why we are calling all Christians to join together on November 12, 2011 to host the One Nation Under God Event in homes and churches across America. Continue reading HSLDA sponsoring One Nation Under God event October 19th, 2011 | Category: Biblical, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Local Mom Review | Most of you are probably saying where is NutBugs Heart of Dakota Weekly Update this week. Well, Our schedule is that we school for 5 weeks on and then we take a week off. This allows us MANY breaks through out Continue reading How to Keep a Strong Voice for Homeschooling in Sacramento October 14th, 2011 | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Local Mom Review, Personal Life, Politics, Sales | Ok, I realized I need to purchase a thesaurus for the phrase" We had a great week" I keep saying that each week and I am sure my readers are getting tired of that same line. Anyway, I have realized that the Early American Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 5 update October 8th, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: Curriculum Reviews, HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | 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 from the President HSLDA, Michael Smith. ____________________________
Great News In California! AB 717 is a huge step toward restoring constitutional principles. From: Family Protection Ministries and Continue reading California Homeschoolers It's time once again to file the Private School Affidavit (PSA) online between October 1-15 for us California Homeschoolers. The private school affidavit is now available online Continue reading Affidavit Time Ok, so how many of you like to go see a musical or a play or some sort of concert, raise your hand. Yea, me too. But how many of you do not go at all or as often as you like because of the price? My hand is up too! I was told about Continue reading Cheap Theater Tickets I know a lot of my readers have struggling children with Dyslexia. I have a friend who just found out why she has been struggling with her child in homeschooling him. She is currently struggling in this area too with her son. As most of you know I am fond of most of Rod
Continue reading Educating Children with Dyslexia Ok, so this week was not as exciting and good as last week, BUT, it had nothing to do with our curriculum. We were just having an off week. Everyday seemed to start later then we wanted. I was having a Continue reading Heart of Dakota Week 4 update September 29th, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: Art, Curriculum Reviews, History/Geography, HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Reviews, Science, Unit Studies | I had several people write to me saying they live in an area where they are not even close to a beach and they are also are using the Heart of Dakota Bigger Hearts. So I had put some great links to some videos in one of the comments section, but I figured there were Continue reading Seashore Videos For Bigger Hearts September 26th, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Review, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Local Mom Review, Unit Studies | Well, this week was pretty good. Our hick up was Math for my son. You see my son hates math. Probably somehow my fault in the earlier years, but none the less, he hates it and therefore is about 6 months behind his "grade" or "age". (Just FYI, I figured out how to do a Continue reading Heart of Dakota Week 3 Update September 23rd, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: Curriculum Reviews, History/Geography, HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Reviews, Science, Unit Studies | 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 whatever other search engine you use and have come up with blogs that are just not what you are looking for? I found a great add on for your internet bar. Continue reading Homeschool Toolbar As suspected, we had another wonderful week. Currently we are learning about things on the sea shores and I finally thought to myself on Monday after school. "Self,' I said, "You live in Sunny Southern California, why the heck are you Continue reading Heart Of Dakota Week 2 Update September 16th, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: Curriculum Reviews, History/Geography, HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Reviews, Science, Unit Studies | This year I am trying a whole new curriculum for History, Geography, Timeline, Notebooking, Poetry, Bible and Science etc. Heart of Dakota. A friend showed Continue reading Trying a New Curriculum: Heart of Dakota Week 1 September 9th, 2011 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Unit Studies | Category: Curriculum Reviews, History/Geography, HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Reviews, Science, Unit Studies | 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 found a place to go to build my library without spending hundreds of dollars. Homeschool Library. Two Moms got together and decided to provide homeschoolers and non homeschoolers alike with Continue reading Homeschooling Library Did you all see the article by Gena Suarez that Old School House sent out a few weeks ago. I loved it and thought I would post it here for those who did not get it. Do you "shelter" Continue reading Am I Sheltering My Child Too Much? August 28th, 2011 | Category: Articles, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life | I did it! I found the best spelling program ever! The program name is All About Spelling. The program is so versatile. It can start at All About Spelling 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. How this got started was one of the ladies had purchased the Atlier Art DVD's and she figured it would be fun to have her daughter have a few friends Continue reading Art Class You know timelines can be a very useful thing in homeschooling, but there are some of us homeschoolers that just have no idea how to go about making one. Here is a great idea from Debra Anderson . I think I might give this one a try myself. Timeline in a box: When we were Continue reading Timeline in a Box I just received an email from HSLDA in regards to this. I know that this does not affect me now, but in the future this could affect thosse of us in California too. And to my friends and readers who live in Florida, I am sure you are well aware of what is going on. Continue reading Response to Alarming Recommendations by Miami-Dade County Grand Jury Well it is that time of year once more. Are you all diving into purchasing your new school year curriculum and supplies? Yea, Continue reading A New School Year July 29th, 2011 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, School, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life | When you were young, did you tell your parents (or anyone) your dreams? Maybe you yearned to be the fastest runner in the world? Or write books? Be a rock star? An artist? Olympic skater? A mom? We tend to protect our dreams, so we don't always say them out loud. We don't Continue reading Dream-Driven Kids…Why They Succeed Learning and reading involve many skills. As children move beyond the pre-school years, parents Continue reading The Importance of Good Pencil Posture 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 of issues that affect your family’s freedom to homeschool, HSLDA’s bimonthly magazine, The Home School Court Continue reading HSLDA Members and Friends: I just finished reading a good easy read and a very expressive book titled, “Knights of the Angel Realm”. This is a book written by an up and coming writer named Gretchen Rhue. Knights of the Angel Realm, I think can be a great read for High Continue reading Knights of the Angel Realm June 15th, 2011 | Category: Biblical, Book/E-Book, Homeschooling: All Things, Local Mom Review | I have been seeing the commercials on TV for the K-12 homeschool curriculum lately. There is this part of me that says…YEA…they are advertising to homeschool kids. What a fantastic opportunity for all of us who homeschool. TV says it OK! Continue reading K12 curriculum 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 a lot about them. But the pace of our lives takes time away from our ability to make observations and reflect on the patterns we see. Don't we often Continue reading Who Is Your Child? OK, so you are thinking, Kristin, what is the big deal about going to a homeschool convention? Well, let me tell you, as a homeschool Mom, we need to re-evaluate what we are doing all the time. We need to make sure that we are using the right CHEA Convention is Here I won a $50.00 gift certificate about a year ago from FISH FM and I have never used it. Tells you I need to take more time for me now and then. Well, with my birthday coming up on May 9th and a few re-vamps of my mind about so much needed Mommy time, I decided Continue reading Lux Salon 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 Farms, down here by me, is making available gleaning opportunities for you and your family. This is a great way to teach our kids about doing for others as well Continue reading Gleaning Opportunity May 27th, 2011 | Category: Articles, Biblical, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Parenting, Personal Life | For those of you who do not have HSLDA, I had to re-post this article from HSLDA. This is the big "WHY" if you have not spent the $100 a year for this wonderful service this is the why you need to beg or borrow the $100 to get it. By the way, they are Continue reading Right to Reasonably Resist Unlawful Police Entry Struck Down Have you heard about the '19 Free Gifts' Promotion from our friends at The Old Schoolhouse Magazine? Subscribe to TOS (or renew your two-year subscription) and in addition to a great magazine, you'll receive 19 free gifts, including… > a Vocabulary Madness Puzzle Booklet from Shurley English > Building Continue reading ’19 Free Gifts’ I know some of you have no idea what a lapbook is and others of you just absolutely love the thought of lapbooks. So lets start with what is a Lapbook fr those of you who have no idea what I am talking about. A lapbook, simply put, is an interesting way of notebooking with Continue reading Free Easter LapBook April 16th, 2011 | Category: Crafts, Curriculum Reviews, FREE, Holidays, Homeschooling: All Things, Reviews |
Co-hosted by CHEA of California and HSLDA In cooperation with the Nevada Homeschool Network and Oregon Christian Home Education Association Network Santa Clara, California April 7–9, 2011 Thursday through Saturday Presidential forum and straw poll at the Pacific Homeschool SuperConference! Dear Friends: Would you like to impact the Continue reading HSLDA Information Regarding the Election March 27th, 2011 | Category: Articles, Economy, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Reviews |
Did you know? Since 1980, the childhood obesity rate has more than doubled for children ages 2 – 5 and more than tripled for children ages 6 – 11. Between 1981 and 1997, free playtime among 6 to 8 year olds dropped 25% Continue reading Project Play March 16th, 2011 | Category: Articles, Blogs, Book/E-Book, Computer, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Local Mom Review, Parenting, Personal Life, Reviews | You all know CurrClick is one of my favorite e-book/e-curriculum sites I go to. They are always giving something away for free and they have a wonderful selection of Continue reading Free Online Class 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 first-born child to think his mother never came to anything because she had so many little ones to tow along with her. So I loaded the car with his five Continue reading The Race Stock Photo According to this article at Today.com Continue reading 6-Year-Old Hauled to Psych Ward Despite Parent’s Wishes 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 collaborate to create something useful and hopefully well-constructed. Parents sometimes subcontract some of their jobs. We have the schools teach our children and the churches instill them with values. Continue reading Outsourcing Life New Year and change go together. We make New Year resolutions to promise ourselves change. We want to insure that this year will be different, fresh, and more workable. Homeschool families feel the same way. We want to insure that daily life will be different, fresh and more workable in the New Year. The Continue reading Simple New Year, Simple Fresh Start For those of you who live in Southern California like myself, you are probably very aware of CHEA and may even be a member. I get regular newsletter from them and I enjoy the articles. Sometimes that will even spur me to start a topic on my blog. However, yesterday at my homeschool park day one Continue reading CHEA Newsletter & Free Devotional January 21st, 2011 | Category: Articles, FREE, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life | 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 free Lego Club classes where science is involved in it too. Hmm…Learning and having fun. LOVE IT! You know what is fantastic about these classes? They are Free. Oh, I am Continue reading Lego Club I was going to write an article about how you have a new year upon us and how we should start the new year with preparedness in homeschooling by joining HSLDA. Then I came across this wonderful article by Homeschool Inc. and I decided to repost it here instead. I could have not written it Continue reading Following the Rules Men are from _______ , Women are from _______ . That boy just can't sit _______. Are you _______ to me? Keep your _______ on the board, young lady. Venus, Mars, still, listening, eyes. Each of these phrases represents a concept in education and brain research called cerebrodiversity. It's the recognition that each of our Continue reading Celebrate Cerebrodiversity! January 7th, 2011 | Category: Articles, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Parenting | New Year's resolutions are fleeting things, leaving our minds with the next distraction. Rather than making resolutions, seek renewal. Renewal of yourself, physically, mentally and emotionally – and renewal of your approach and attitude. Here are a few ideas to consider as we approach 2011: 1. Worry less. How many things we worry Continue reading New Year – New Vision Do you dread the holidays? Just between you and me, I often do. But holidays and vacations matter. They matter to our minds. Why is that? On the one hand, every mom on earth knows that holidays do not mean fewer tasks – just different ones. And holidays don't promise more sleep – Continue reading Getting a Break? My son absolutely HATES to write. I am an eclectic Charlotte Masoner, but all the writing that she has a child do just does not sit well with my son. You see he can re-tell a story almost word for word and he can make up a great 4+ sentence story too. BUT ask him Continue reading Smart Kids Who Hate to Write December 2nd, 2010 | Category: Articles, FORUM, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Parenting | Here’s a great way to help homeschoolers any time you shop online: purchase materials from a company that gives to the Home School Foundation. All you have to do is go to Clicks for Homeschooling and click on the link to Continue reading Give While You Shop: Clicks for Homeschooling November 26th, 2010 | Category: Articles, Economy, Holidays, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News | You know I have each year for advent missed the first couple days and never really started our advent till the first of December. As well as I never really do much more then read Bible verses. Which Continue reading Advent Calendar November 22nd, 2010 | Category: Biblical, Holidays, Homeschooling: All Things, Unit Studies |
HSLDA posting: A Time for Thanksgiving Vol. 101, Prg. 1-5 November 15-19, 2010 Whether your kids are 5 or 15, you can have fun learning more about the history of Thanksgiving with them. On this week’s Continue reading HSLDA: A Time for Thanksgiving Colleges Now Required to Determine “Validity” of High School Diplomas FAFSA Form: Which Box to Check? In the past, some parents were advised to choose “high Colleges Now Required to Determine “Validity” of High School Diplomas November 2nd, 2010 | Category: Articles, Economy, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News, Politics | Although Halloween origins began with the Celtic druids over 2,000 years ago, the seasonal practices are observed in many countries. Halloween falls within the Fall Equinox that starts from September 23 through November 4 approximately. This time period is celebrated in all cultures and is also known as: Alban Elfed Autumn Equinox Fall Solstice Cornucopia Continue reading Halloween Origins: What Are The Different Names? October 27th, 2010 | Category: Articles, Biblical, Holidays, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News | When we consider the history of Halloween (a Christian perspective), it may seem as if the modern holiday has gotten out of hand. After all, doesn’t Halloween glorify evil? Is it right to send our children out as devils and Continue reading What is the History of Halloween: A Christian Perspective? October 21st, 2010 | Category: Articles, Holidays, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News | When is this wonderful holiday. Well it is always on November 3rd. Housewife Day recognizes the importance of stay at home wives and moms. Also referred to as "Retro" Housewife Day. These wonderful, caring creatures, build and enrich strong family environments. They help to instill family values and good character. Housewife is an old term. It Continue reading National Housewife Day |
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