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2014-2015 School Year

School Week of October 13, 2014

By KristinN, on October 19th, 2014

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History-son

Science experiment on bones

Science-using our muscles in our faces for expression -SILLY

Science-using our muscles in our faces for expression – HAPPY

Science-using our muscles in our faces for expression -BORED

Science-using our muscles in our faces for expression -ANGRY

Science-using our muscles in our faces for expression -a very bad SCARED

Science-using our muscles in our faces for expression -UPSET

Science-using our muscles in our faces for expression -Pure HAPPY cuteness

See you all on the FLIP side!!!

2014-2015 School Year

School Week of October 6, 2014

By KristinN, on October 12th, 2014

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History-daughter

Science experiments of the bones

Science-bone names

Science experiments of the bones

Typing-daughter

Typing-son

See you on the flip side!

2014-2015 School Year

School Week of September 29, 2014

By KristinN, on October 5th, 2014

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School Week of September 22, 2014

By KristinN, on September 27th, 2014

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A New school year is ready to start

By KristinN, on August 30th, 2014

Well for the last couple weeks I have been cleaning out and getting rid of thing. I ordered all my books months ago and got them but they have been sitting in a corner waiting and waiting for me to organized my schoolroom. So it is a new year and my son is going into

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School Week of 5-5 through 5-9

By KristinN, on May 12th, 2014

Another week gone by and here we are again. We are narrowing down the weeks until the end of the school year. I am looking forward to everything just stopping for a little bit. I love homeschooling, I love teaching choir, but I also need a break!!!!

This week we moved from the European and

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Weeks and weeks

By KristinN, on April 4th, 2014

OMgosh! I realized I had not posted our week of school in over a month. Bad me. Life just got so busy here. I have so many different hats I am wearing and interests that I am perusing. Right now I have been focusing on choral conducting, nutrition and vegan cooking. I have been taking

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school Week 1-20-14

By KristinN, on January 20th, 2014

Well, what a week. I know last week I did not write anything. These past couple of weeks has been extremely busy for us here and I don;t seem to be home enough to spend time in front of the computer to actually write anything. So this is going to be very

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School Week of 1-6-14

By KristinN, on January 12th, 2014

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Oh man, Back from Christmas vacation. I have to admit it has not been easy to get back on the band wagon. You see I have been sick since Thanksgiving. I first got struck with an everyday cold which turned into laryngitis. Then after a week of that I got the

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School Week of 12-9-13

By KristinN, on December 15th, 2013

Hey ya all! What a great week of school. Even though we are busy, busy, busy with the holidays and so forth we are having a wonderful week. This week we made a ton of gifts for our family and friends. You know things are financially TIGHT right now for our family, as many families

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School Week of 12-2-13

By KristinN, on December 8th, 2013

Wow, it is almost Christmas. Seems like it was just yesterday that I was gathering the supplies for school to start and now here we are putting up decorations and getting ready for the holiday season. Last week was Thanksgiving so as you might have noted there was not a post for school. We took

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School Week of 11-11-13

By KristinN, on November 18th, 2013

While learning the bible this week the children picked up a ton about the Trinity. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Unfortunately we did not do a lot of notebooking bible this week. We did more reading and oral discussion. The children have such a better understanding of what the trinity means and how the

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Another Week of (10-21-13) School

By KristinN, on October 27th, 2013

What a week. I always get amazed at how much we really learn each week. Well I have to start with art this week. We are learning so much this year. We are using the Gluck method of training. So far the pictures we are drawing are just beautiful. This past week we drew, using

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School Week 10-14-13

By KristinN, on October 20th, 2013

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Bible coloring page

Daughter’s geography Term: Prairie

Son’s geography Term: Prairie

Son’s Korea, China and Japan mapping

Son’s History coloring page for China

History Pages for China

Daughter’s Spelling

Son’s Bible Notebooking

Daughter’s Bible Notebooking

Bible coloring page

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Week 9-16-13 of School

By KristinN, on September 20th, 2013

What a whirl wind of a week. First off the end of the week was just hard. We had a main pipe break to the sewer system. Ugghh! Luckily enough none of the sewer backed up into the house. The flood we did have in the house was all clean water. Praise GOD! Anyway, let’s

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Week of 9-9-13 School

By KristinN, on September 14th, 2013

What a wonderful week this week has been. Now as you may have guessed since there was not a post last week we decided to take the entire week off from school, sleep in and just relax. Why? Well, this week was a big bang into the school year. Not only did we start

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Week 8-26-13 of School

By KristinN, on August 23rd, 2013

Well, this week we added in to our schedule, English. I decided to hold back on teaching formal English to my kids (Charlotte Mason style) until they were a bit older and the concepts could stick better. It has worked very well for my son and is working for my daughter too. My daughter is

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Week 8-19-13 of School

By KristinN, on August 19th, 2013

Well, as I had posted last week, this past week we decided to add into our summer schedule some history. This is a great way of entering into the new school year without it feeling like we went form 0 to 80 in 10 seconds flat. I feel like we are gradually accelerating into the

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2012-2013 School Year: Week 21

By KristinN, on March 10th, 2013

Well, we do not have a ton of picture this week, but even so we still had a great week.

Last week if you will recall, we placed 2 carrots in water. One was colored water and the other was just plain water. The idea was to see how this root vegetable sucks up the

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2012-2013 School Year: Week 20

By KristinN, on March 1st, 2013

This week was a short week for us., We took off Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday due to my son's 11th birthday and my husbands birthday. We had a great time on Monday. We went to Chuck E Cheese during the day. I remember when my son was very young we would do that and it

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2012-2013 School Year: Week 19

By KristinN, on February 24th, 2013

What a week. All week long I just did not get enough sleep. Have you ever had one of those weeks. Yea, this week was mine! When I get depressed or really tired or sick (not throwing up sick), I eat. Yea, I am one of those emotional eaters. I have been eating like a

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2013-2013 School Year: Week 18

By KristinN, on February 19th, 2013

A much better week this week. Last week was not bad, but it felt like I was not organized and put together. Everyday was just another day. You know what I mean? But this week we had a great time.

First off is our Piano class both kids really did well. They both practices more

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2013-2013 School Year: Week 17

By KristinN, on February 15th, 2013

Very interesting week we had. First off I am posting this post a week late. I totally realized today that I am a week behind in my posting and I do not know how I did that. Oh well, such is life! The fact that I get it posted is much more important then when.

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2012-2013 School Year: Week 15

By KristinN, on January 20th, 2013

Well, this week on Friday I had a scare. My blood pressure was well over 190/90. Now for one day that would not be bad, but this lasted 4 days. I ended up in ER on Friday and well, from there we figured it was stress that is the culprit. Figures. I guess I do

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2012-2013 School Year week: 14

By KristinN, on January 11th, 2013

OM Gosh, was it hard to get back into the swing of thing. I was kind of talked into taking 3 weeks off for the holiday season. Well, both choirs I teach were taking three weeks off from the program and several of my friends were doing the same, so

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2012-2013 School Year: Week #12

By KristinN, on December 7th, 2012

Can you believe it has been 12 weeks of school already? We are almost at 100 days of school. Just 40 more days left. I guess I better start figuring out what we are going to do for school that day. Anyway, this week was a good week. Getting back from a week off of

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2012-2013 School Year: Week #11

By KristinN, on November 24th, 2012

Well, another short week this week, but at least not due to illness. We are taking half of this week off and a couple days next week for Thanksgiving. Speaking of, how was your Thanksgiving? Ours was perfecto. Being a vegetarian, and a new one at that (9 months), I was wondering how this was

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2012-2013 School Year: Week #9

By KristinN, on November 9th, 2012

For some reason I was having such a hard time this week doing school. I think because we had such a big weather change from about 78-80 to now dropping to 69 or so and drizzling, it just made me tired. Overall we got everything done we were supposed to.

In Art this week we

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Chuck E Cheese Coupons

By KristinN, on November 7th, 2012

Hey, just a very quick note for all my readers. I saw these really good coupons for Chuck E Cheese and I know a lot of us spend some time there because for $10 you can have a few hours of fun. I rarely get food, but for the cost of 100 tokens you

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School 2012-2013: Weekly 6

By KristinN, on October 13th, 2012

You know, there are so many stories about Joseph in the Bible. I think our favorite has been, this week, the story of how Joseph was favored then he is sold into Slavery (by his family), becomes famous (so to speak) then is humbled and drawn back down into despair and then raised once again

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School 2012-2013: Week 4

By KristinN, on September 29th, 2012

This week for Bible we read about Sodom and Lot and his family. I was waiting for a question or two about what exactly was going on there, but not a one. Whew! We then went on to learn about Ishmael and Isaac as well as Rebekah. I really love the pictures they are drawing.

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School 2012-2013 Week 2

By KristinN, on September 15th, 2012

Well, another week down. I can not believe it has been two weeks already into the school year. Wow, how time flies. Anyhow, we had another good week. My son and I did have a couple migraines this week each that made school a bit tough, but I am use to it by now and

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HOD Week in Review

Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 30

By KristinN, on May 25th, 2012

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 week. We got all our stuff done plus we had time to do a

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 29

By KristinN, on May 18th, 2012

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 activities and how they were so happy inventing things.

Our geography lesson this week was to learn about

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 26

By KristinN, on April 28th, 2012

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 to us. He was really a very incredible President and Man!

Anyhow, this week was as good as

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 25

By KristinN, on April 23rd, 2012

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

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 24

By KristinN, on April 6th, 2012

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

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Webcast – Spreading The Homeschool Message

By KristinN, on April 4th, 2012

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 School Message." Here is a friendly

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Which Home-school Curriculums Are Based On A Young Earth View Of History And Science?

By KristinN, on February 22nd, 2010

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

I'm looking into home-school curriculum and have noticed that many say they are Biblical in basis, but are not being specific about their view of history. I want to choose textbooks/ curriculum that are not going to be filled with "millions of years ago". Can anyone offer assistance? Thanks

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How Do You Choose The Best Home-school Program?

By KristinN, on February 16th, 2010

Readers Forum:

I am thinking about home-schooling my children, ages 7 and 11, and I know there are different curriculum's for homeschool. I don't know where to go to find out about homeschooling resources or how to compare the different programs. In addition, what resources are available to home-school parents? How can you suplement the

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