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In the News

Soybeans; What's New and Beneficial About Soybeans

With my recent studies on a healthy lifestyle and eating for optimal health, I have had a transition to become

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HOD Week in Review

Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 27

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Homeschooling: All Things

California Homeschool Convention in Long Beach

Just a reminder of the upcoming Homeschool Convention coming this month.  There is also the CHEA convention in July which I

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Homeschooling: All Things

Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 26

This week we finally were able to learn about one of most beloved Presidents, Abraham Lincoln. I happen to have a

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 25

OK, I know you all are asking why I got this post out so late!  I just got real lazy this

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 25

Well, it was nice to have a break for Easter. I hemmed and Hawed over taking a break since we just

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Articles

http://nutbugs.com/webcast-spread…school-message/

 

 

 

 

I just got this email this morning, so I thought I would post it right away. Hopefully some of

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Articles

Mandatory Kindergarten (CA) Bill Delayed

Mandatory Kindergarten??

 

Please be prepared to take action against AB 2203.


HSLDA President Mike Smith has been an advocate of

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Bible

God and doG

I just saw the greatest video. You know our dogs love us unconditionally. They are patient with us, forgive us when we are unkind,

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HOD Week in Review

Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 23

Well, I have to say this week was not the most fun week. I guess because I was coming off of

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Homeschooling: All Things

Oppose Expansion of Government Control over Education


Oppose Expansion of Government Control over Education

Act now to oppose AB 2203.


HSLDA President Mike Smith has

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HOD Week in Review

Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 22

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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Articles

TV Series Mocks Christians, Undermines Liberty

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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HOD Week in Review

Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 21

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

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

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

 
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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HOD Week in Review

Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 18 Update

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

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Articles

Homeschooler Buyers Co-op

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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Homeschooling: All Things

HSLDA High School Teacher Training Programs

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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FREE

Blackline Maps for Free

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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HOD Week in Review

Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 17 Update

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

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

Back to school this week. As

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History/Geography

California History

 

Fourth Grade California History Education Program

 
 

Dear Irvine Park Railroad

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FREE

Blackline Maps for FREE

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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HOD Week in Review

Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 15

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

Free Study Guide To The U.S. Constitution

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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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 14

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

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 13 update

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

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

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 11 update

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

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

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Articles

Let’s Play

I am sure that most of my readers Continue reading Let’s Play

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Does Nagging Work?

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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Articles

Teaching Writing in a Text-Message World

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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Articles

Eisenhower

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

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

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HOD Week in Review

Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 9 Update

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

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

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 7 Update

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

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

Biblical

HSLDA sponsoring One Nation Under God event

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

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Homeschooling: All Things

How to Keep a Strong Voice for Homeschooling in Sacramento

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

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Curriculum Reviews

Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 5 update

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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Homeschooling: All Things

California Homeschoolers

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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Homeschooling: All Things

Affidavit Time

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

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In the News

Cheap Theater Tickets

Ok, so how many of you like to go see a musical or a play or some sort of concert, raise your hand. Yea,

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Articles

Educating Children with Dyslexia

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

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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HOD Week in Review

Seashore Videos

 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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Curriculum Reviews

Heart of Dakota Week 3

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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FREE

Homeschool Toolbar

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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Curriculum Reviews

Heart Of Dakota Week 2

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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Curriculum Reviews

Trying a New Curriculum: Heart of Dakota Week 1

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

Book/E-Book

Homeschooling Library

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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Articles

Am I Sheltering My Child Too Much?

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

English

All About Spelling

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

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Art

Art Class

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

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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Homeschooling: All Things

Response to Alarming Recommendations by Miami-Dade County Grand Jury

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

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HOD Week in Review

A New School Year

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Articles

Dream-Driven Kids…Why They Succeed

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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Articles

The Importance of Good Pencil Posture

Learning and The Importance of Good Pencil Posture

Articles

HSLDA Members and Friends:

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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Biblical

Knights of the Angel Realm

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

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Curriculum Reviews

K12 curriculum

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

Homeschooling: All Things

Who Is Your Child?

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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Curriculum Reviews

CHEA Convention is Here

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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Local Mom Review

Lux Salon

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

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Articles

Gleaning Opportunity

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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Articles

Right to Reasonably Resist Unlawful Police Entry Struck Down

For those of you who do not have HSLDA, I had to re-post this article from HSLDA. This

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Articles

’19 Free Gifts’

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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Crafts

Free Easter LapBook

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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Articles

HSLDA Information Regarding the Election

 

 

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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Articles

Project Play

 

 

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

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

Homeschooling: All Things

The Race

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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Articles

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


                                      

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Articles

Outsourcing Life

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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Articles

Simple New Year, Simple Fresh Start

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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Articles

CHEA Newsletter

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

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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Articles

Following the Rules

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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Articles

Celebrate Cerebrodiversity!

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

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Articles

New Year - New Vision

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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Articles

Getting a Break?

Do you dread the holidays? Just between you and me, I often do. But holidays and vacations matter. They matter to our minds. Why

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Articles

Smart Kids Who Hate to Write

 My son absolutely HATES to write. I am an eclectic Charlotte Masoner, but all the writing that she has a child

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Articles

Give While You Shop: Clicks for Homeschooling

Here’s a great way to help homeschoolers any time you shop online: purchase materials from a company that gives to

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Biblical

Advent Calendar

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

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Articles

HSLDA: A Time for Thanksgiving

 

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

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Articles

Colleges Now Required to Determine “Validity” of High School Diplomas


Colleges Now Required to Determine “Validity” of High Colleges Now Required to Determine “Validity” of High School Diplomas

Articles

Halloween Origins: What Are The Different Names?

Although Halloween origins began with the Celtic druids over 2,000 years ago, the seasonal practices are observed in many countries.

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Articles

What is the History of Halloween: A Christian Perspective?

When we consider the Continue reading What is the History of Halloween: A Christian Perspective?

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National Housewife Day

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

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Articles

How Do God’s Ten Commandments Apply Today?

Many people today feel that God's Ten Commandments are no longer valid because they do not apply to our current

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Biblical

We Did it…Christmas is Back

You did it! There's no question that your taking time to get involved has influenced Dominion Services and Richmond, Virginia, parade organizers

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Biblical

City bans ‘Christmas’ in favor of ‘holiday’ parade – War against Christmas starting already

The city of Richmond, Virginia, has turned coward because the new sponsor of

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Articles

Questions on God?????

I found a great web site that has been such a wonderful source of information I had to share it with all my readers.

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