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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 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 week was very interesting. We had a lot to learn about the new Government Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 16 I know some of you are much closer then I am to the Highschool years, So when I saw this eamail from The Homeschool Channel, I thought I had to post it here. If you can not make it I am sure there is a way to get a mp3 of it. Just send Continue reading Chart Your Course To High School Success!
Fourth Grade California History Education Program Dear Irvine Park Railroad Friends, We are now accepting reservations for Irvine Park Railroad's Fourth Grade California History Education Program! Call today to reserve your spot for one of these days: Public Day: Saturday, February 11, 2012 10:00 am and 1:00 pm Continue reading California History 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 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. It is always amazing to me the grace of God. Every year, right around the begining of December or so, I have gotten laryngitis, ever Continue reading QUIET MOM! 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 read and after my son retells, her answer, most of the time, is I don't Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 15 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 As we learn about early American history, I realize more and more how happy I am to be an American. And my children are realizing how much freedom we really do have here is the United States of America. Yes, we may complain, as Christians, the downfall of moral values etc, but overall we have Continue reading Proud to be an American 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 school one child. You see, my daughter is, well, the child who always makes the teacher have to stop class to Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 14 This year I was not sure exactly how Christmas was going to turn out, but God is always good and gave us a spectacular Christmas. I was smart and did the majority of my Christmas shopping for the children months and months before Christmas! So they had a perfect Christmas. Even the adults had an Continue reading Christmas at Our Home 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 History Activity on day 1 with the water, but Mom forgot the camera that day. Oh Well. Now both my children understand water flow Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 13 update 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 life. I think that is why I am very thankful that I am using Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 12 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 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 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 not received their email. I have seen and heard that sometimes as homeschooler we can get caught up Continue reading Let’s Play Well, we are back from vacation and we had such a great time. We went to Lego Land. I think this was my children's favorite place of all. I think this was my favorite too. We saved about $175.00 on entrance fees. For all of you who may want to go but can not afford Continue reading Darn, Vacation is Over! 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? Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I wanted to take a very quick moment before we leave to visit with family and wish all my readers, family and friends a FULLfilling day today! With that said I have two holiday videos to share with you today. The first one is of my friend singing the Fat Turkey song Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving 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 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 read or we are running late at night. So going to bed 2 hours after bedtime was not Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 8 Update I am a huge advocate for HSLDA, in case you all have not figured that out by now. So because of that I try to support them in other ways when I can. Sometimes they sell things that either make great gifts or things I really would like to have. And the few extra dollars Continue reading Cookbook and Christmas Cards! Hey, I just received an email form Lighthouse Publications because I have purchased things from them in the past. Anyway, they are doing a big sale and a givaway and I thought I would let everyone know about it. They have some great readers, unit studies as well as copywork books etc. Here is the email Continue reading Lighthouse Publications Giveaway and Sweepstakes 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 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 probably noticed that I did not have a week 6 update last week. Yup, Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 6 Update 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 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 the year, especially since we school (for the most part) year round. So instead Continue reading How to Keep a Strong Voice for Homeschooling in Sacramento 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 History that I learned as a child was very watered down as Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 5 update 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 for filing at the CHEA web site. I want to mention here that there are two new questions (41 & 42) on the form which ask questions in regards Continue reading Affidavit Time Most of you who know me personally know that my husband has been in the real estate industry for over 20 years and has been our sole source of income. However, as we all know the real estate market busted a few years back Continue reading Multiple Streams of Homeschooling Income 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 hard time sleeping at night all week, I could not pull my behind out Continue reading Heart of Dakota Week 4 update Hey all you Southern California residents, Fall is here and the pumpkins are flourishing at Tanaka Farms! Opening weekend is here for the Tanaka Farms Pumpkin Patch. Yes, that is this weekend Oct 1 and 2nd. For their opening weekend they are giving us a treat. FREE Petting Zoo with a purchase of a wagon ride Continue reading Tanaka Farms has Free Petting Zoo! Rustin in Tustin is a great blog for all the happenings here in the Tustin, California area as well as just outside of Tustin. I go to them alot for things to do here in my home town. Plus they have some great things you can buy that have TUSTIN on it. As Continue reading 50 Years for Tustin Tillers Days 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 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 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 sitting in the house to learn about the sea shore. Take the book, a Continue reading Heart Of Dakota Week 2 Update I wanted to repost this letter here and share my answer to this common homeschooling problem with first timers as well as veteran homeschoolers. If you have ideas to share, please post your answers too.
Hi, This is our 1st yr. home schooling after 3 years of Public School (PS). It is not Continue reading Help Me I am Failing at Homeschooling 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 me this curriculum at the beginning of last year and after a ton of research and the fact I LOVE the Charlotte Mason approach, I fell in love Continue reading Trying a New Curriculum: Heart of Dakota Week 1 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 girls then 6 and went back to 5 and finally back to 4. Anyway, we recorded a CD just for fun and to be able to give other churches a look at Continue reading Heartfelt Music 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" your children? We're finding that's a bad word in some circles. Something is creeping Continue reading Am I Sheltering My Child Too Much? 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 preschool aged children (my daughter) all the way to High School level (Level 6) because they are not specified to grade levels but they are arranged by concepts Continue reading 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, I got mine purchased about a month ago. Well at least the major part of it. Just picking up little supplies here and there. New erasers, you know the fun ones, paper Continue reading A New School Year 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 wonder if there are clues to look for regarding whether a child may have a learning issue. Did you know that how a child holds a pencil can actually be a clue that a child may have a vision-related learning 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 Report, is the place to turn. Here, you’ll find: Feature stories on key homeschooling Continue reading HSLDA Members and Friends: Have you always wanted to go to the county fairs for educating your children more then the rides and food, but never do because it is so blasted busy? Well, LA County fair has been giving away free tickets to the fair for years. Oh, and it is open early in the morning to school Continue reading The L.A. County Fair 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 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! LOL! But there is that part of me that thinks, well maybe this is 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 curriculum or Method. Remember that we can Continue reading 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 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’ Look for Calvary Church of Santa Ana, CA in this video. Yes, that is my church. The video is from the DOVE awards and church choirs from all over were asked to participate in the making of this video. So Celebration Choir did and I wanted to share it with everyone! http://www.ccli.com/CCLITV/Default.aspx?v=1faba14b-6efe-477b-ad67-df5edf29bb80 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 a pretty darn good job. After all her parents spent a pretty penny for that video. But that is neither here nor there. My church, Calvary Church of Santa Ana, Continue reading Happy Easter 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 service of the year next to Christmas. Sorry to say, but that is sad. What happens the rest of the year to those Christians that do not attend? Notice I said Continue reading What is Easter? 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 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 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 Entries received before May 1 or postmarked after June 1 will be sent back or Continue reading HSLDA Poetry Contest
Hello NITZ Family, We at CHEA are looking forward to seeing many of you at the Pacific Homeschool SuperConference in just a few days. If you have not yet registered, it's not too late to come. See opportunities for online at-the-door registration below. Check out our exhibitors (list still growing), Continue reading Update on CHEA Pacific Convention
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
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 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 curriculum you can choose from. All you have to do is download it and you have it right away to either print or read off the 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 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! 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 I belong to a Park Day group here in my hometown Tustin, CA. Our goal is to get together once a week either for a simple Park day or a Nature Walk. We typically visit parks either in Tustin, Santa Ana, Orange or Irvine and on occasion go to parks farther away for our Nature Continue reading Pioneer Park 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? I teach the children's choir at Calvary Church of Santa Ana, and we had our final concert of 2010 on Saturday, December 19th. My dear hubby recorded the whole thing for us. I still am not sure what went wrong with Hark the Hearld Angels Sing, but the rest of the concert was a hit! Some how Continue reading Children’s Concert So last night (Sat 18th) I went to my church choir party. We played this very fun game. Now I have to say that no one wanted to really play this game when we were told what it was, but the end result was absolutely hilarious. The game was to take a traditional Christmas song Continue reading Choir Christmas Party Fun Crazy Christmas Light Displays In Tustin By Admin, on December 17th, 2010 How many Christmas movies have you seen where one neighbor is determined to have the best light display this year and as a result they either take down the entire western electrical grid or they fall off a ladder on top of Continue reading Crazy Christmas Lights Twas the month before Christmas When all through our land, Not a Christian was praying Nor taking a stand. See the PC Police had taken away, The reason for Christmas – no one could say. The children were told by their schools not to sing, About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things. Continue reading Twas the Month Before Christmas… OK, so I usually don't do this but I did come across this deal and I know Red Box is everywhere. I know me and my family use it often and we definitely are always looking to save a buck. I know for time off during Christmas, we will very likely be renting Continue reading Redbox $1 for 3 movie rentals Christmas will be here sooner than you think but even St. Nick can spare a few minutes for the awesome kids in Tustin. Every year Santa stops by for a visit with the help of Tustin's finest, the Tustin PD. I especially enjoyed a few years ago when my son was able Continue reading Santa’s Sleigh Ride in Tustin So it's been quite a while since I've visited the Tustin Area Historical Society but just like any place that houses and displays history, I find it fascinating. It is surprising when you start to dig into the history of Tustin, you learn much more than you bargained for. It's not a big place, Continue reading Tustin Area Historical Society 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 Last year I found the cutest on line Advent Calendar 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 the store of your choice. Then you shop just like normal, and the store Continue reading Give While You Shop: Clicks for Homeschooling Over the years as my children have grown up I have done several things to help them understand the REAL meaning of Christmas. I have always wanted to make a Jesse Tree, but the holidays come up on me way too soon and so I end up not getting it together in time. This year Continue reading Jesse Tree 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 is fine, but my son is 8 and my daughter is 5 and it is time for the Continue reading Advent Calendar
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 Home School Heartbeat, Mike Smith shares ways to make the Pilgrim story come alive for Continue reading HSLDA: A Time for Thanksgiving The Talents2Work site offers a unique service to the Christian and homeschool community—a forum for Christian entrepreneurs to market their products and services to the members within their affiliated organization, as well as around the world. The Talents2Work Shopping Directory lets you shop with confidence, knowing that all vendors are operating according to Christian Continue reading Talents2Work |
