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HOD Week in Review

Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 28

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 27

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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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HOD Week in Review

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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HOD Week in Review

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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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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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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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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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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HOD Week in Review

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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Can You Use A Macbook For Ecot Online Homeschooling?

A Reader Asks:

Can you use a Mac or Macbook on ECOT online homeschooling or do you have to

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FORUM

What Homeschooling Has Parenting Class?

 

A Reader has asked:

I want to take parenting classes. Do you know where or how I can do this?

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FORUM

What's Your Personal Favorite Homeschooling Curriculum And Why?

FORUM

A Reader wrote to me and said:

I don't really have one favorite. I loosely follow the classical approach, but

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FORUM

Question About North Carolina High School Homeschooling?

FORUM: A reader asks

I would like to start home schooling in the fall; I'll be starting my junior year. My

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FORUM

Do You Enjoy Homeschooling Your Children?

FORUM: A reader asks

I am considering homeschooling. I have a 4 yr old and a 2 yr old. Are you happy

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FORUM

Are There Any Tax Breaks For Homeschooling?

FORUM: A reader asks

Is there any tax breaks, like deductions for classes or curric. that you can claim on your

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What's Your Personal Favorite Homeschooling Curriculum And Why?

FORUM: A reader asks

I don't really have one favorite. I loosely follow the classical approach, but I've also worked

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Is Homeschooling In The Balearic Islands Legal?

FORUM: A reader asks

I want to homeschool my daughter but we live in Mallorca,so i just wanted to know whether

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Secular Homeschooling For Missouri Children/low Cost Preffered?

FORUM: A reader asks

I'm trying to find a superb Secular Secular Homeschooling For Missouri Children/low Cost Preffered?

Computer

Flash Cards

So how many of us print out all sorts

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Book/E-Book

Dreams and Designs—Homemade Supplies to Complement Your Homeschool E-Book Review

I review many, many e-books. I purchase handfuls and several I receive for free from different giveaways.

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Curriculum Reviews

Apologia Science

I have been longing to find a good science curriculum

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How Can Home-schooling Parents Start A Real School?

FORUM:

My Mom is trying to find out how to start a How Can Home-schooling Parents Start A Real School?

FORUM

Parents: What Were The Underlying Factors That Caused You To Choose Homeschooling Your Children?

FORUM:

I am doing research for a Masters level education course and am thinking

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Homeschooling !!!!!!!!!!!!!?

FORUM:

Ok, so once you decide to home school your child,

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Do You Think Homeschooling Is Better Than The Conventional School System?

FORUM:

I've heard a lot of parents say they decided to homeschool their child since the learning

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FORUM

What Would Be The Advantages Or Disadvantages Of Homeschooling In This Case?

Readers Forum:

If a student who is living in one state and is going to be

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How Do You Start Off Homeschooling?

Readers Forum:

Just a question about homeschooling. My son is 16 years old and he is highly functional autistic. He is very

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FORUM

How Do I Find The Laws For Homeschooling In Md?

Readers Forum:

I have found several web sites, and I am a little confussed. Does anyone know anything

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FORUM

How To Get Funding For Homeschooling In California?

Readers Forum:

I'm considering homeschooling and I've heard that one can get some special interest classes paid for such as

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How Long Does It Take To Start Homeschooling?

Readers Forum:

So I'm going to start being homeschooled. I knew I wouldn't be able to start right away, but

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FORUM

How Many Homeschooling Events Do You Do In A Typical Month?

Readers Forum:

Our once a month activities with our homeschooling groups, Lit Club, Homeschool Recess, Themed Party,

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FORUM

How Do I Make My Transition From Homeschooling To Public School Smooth?

Readers Forum:

At some point I went to public How Do I Make My Transition From Homeschooling To Public School Smooth?

FORUM

What Are The Biggest Threats To The Homeschooling Movement?

Readers Forum:

The homeschooling movement has been steadily growing for years now. What potential pitfalls lay on the horizon

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Online Homeschooling You Can Convert To In Around The Middle Of Your Freshman Year In Highschool?

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

I want to be homeschooling, and

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How Do You Get Homeschooling Accredited?

Readers Forum:

I am doing research for homeschooling, as is my dad. I found a lot, but I cannot figure out how

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FORUM

What Is The Best Homeschooling Kit For 1st Graders?

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

I need advice on homeschooling. The possibility that I may have to homeschool

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FORUM

How Does College Application Work With Homeschooling?

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How Do I Begin To Prepare My Children For Homeschooling Now?

Reader Forum:

I have a 2 1/2 yr. old and a 9-month old and I'm strongly considering

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Do People Know The Difference Between Homeschooling And Unschooling?

Readers Forum:

I was home schooled and believe me I did not get away with not studying. My mom

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What Are The Real Benefits Of Homeschooling?

Readers Forum:

What Are The Real Benefits Of Homeschooling? While I can understand it for children with non-impairing cognitive abnormalities, how

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When Did The Debate About Homeschooling Start?

Readers Forum:

How many years has the debate about homeschooling been going for, I'm writing an essay about it. Thanks.

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Is It Possible To Do Homeschooling And Public Schooling Both At Once?

Readers Forum:

I'm 13, and I feel that some of my teachers do a bad job

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How Do I Get Started With Homeschooling?

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

My son will be entering Kindergarten in fall 08 and I plan on homeschooling him

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FORUM

How Do You Get Started With Homeschooling?

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

What are the first steps?… How do I start and get into homeschooling? And where

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What Is The Best Homeschooling Curriculum In Your Opinion And Why?

Readers Forum:

I am going to be homeschooling my 7 year old daughter in the fall and

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Where Can I Find Some Words For Homeschooling?

Readers Forum:

Where can i find Vocab words to use in homeschooling.I need some for 10th-12th grade and do u

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What Are The Negative Effects Of Homeschooling?

Readers Forum:

Im homeschooling and I hate it. I want to show my parents how bad homeschooling is. How can I

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Homeschooling Parents: What Are The Top Facilitation Or Curriculum Tools You Look For Online?

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

I'm putting together a support website for parents,

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FORUM

How Do I Enroll In An Online Homeschooling For High School?

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

I am interested in homeschooling. I will be in the 11th

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FORUM

Any Homeschooling Moms Who Have Suffered From Any Type Of Depression?

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

Any homeschool moms who have suffered from depression or any other

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FORUM

Does Homeschooling For Years 11 And 12 Affect Getting Into Universities And How Quickly Can You Complete It?

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

I want to do

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FORUM

How Much Does Homeschooling Cost With A Personal Teacher?

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

I would like 2 know how much would homeschooling cost but not being

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FORUM

How Long Should Homeschooling Take And What Curriculum Do You Use?

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

I was wondering how much time I should spend a day

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How Does Homeschooling Work For Parents Of Asperger Children? Where Do You Get Your Curriculum From?

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

I have a 10 yr old

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What Is A Good Homeschooling Programs Online And Books?

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

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What Is The Best Homeschooling Cirriculum For A First Grader?

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

I am new to homeschooling my son, and I am involved with

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FORUM

Homeschooling?

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

I'm thinking about starting up homeschooling again but I have no idea how to start up again. If anyone could tell

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Bible

Copywork E-Book

House Upon a Rock is a copywork book for Mathew 7:24-29. I feel it is made more for upper elementary grades, 4-6, due to

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Book/E-Book

The Little Red Hen Primer Reader

The Little Red Hen Primer Reader is a story I has The Little Red Hen Primer Reader

Book/E-Book

Molly’s monthly Money-Saving Digests

Molly’s monthly Money-Saving Digests have so far been really great but this months, October 2009, What Can We Learn From the Great

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History/Geography

Trail Guide to US Geography

Most of my regular readers know me well enough to know I am not much into a traditional unit study unless it

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History/Geography

History of Civilization: The Ancient World

Funny thing about doing reviews, you always end up with something you either need or can really use. I happen to

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Book/E-Book

Free Ebook: Planning Your Course and Letting the Lord Determine Your Steps

The New Continue reading Free Ebook: Planning Your Course and Letting the Lord Determine Your Steps

Crafts

Even Boys Can Use Paper Dolls

If you have been with me since the beginning of NutBugs, you know I did a review on using puppets in

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Articles

A New School Year

Well, it is that time of year once more. And here we are some of us homeschoolers scurrying and trying to get everything

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Book/E-Book

Fiesta of Freebies 2 E-Book, A Compilation of Homeschool Freebies

Ok, if you all are looking for a

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Book/E-Book

Amazing Math Free Ebook

 August is here and it’s time to gear up for “Back-to-Homeschool.” Looking for some fun hands-on activities to get your year started right? The Old Schoolhouse®

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FREE

Free, Free, Free

It is that time of year again. Yes, it is time to start thinking about the fall and our Continue reading Free, Free, Free

Book/E-Book

E-Homeschooling: Embracing the E-book Revolution

Now I have written a couple articles on e-books and my feelings on them. But I will take a moment to recap.

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Articles

Academics and Beyond

When I started homeschooling I thought for sure that homeschool was all about getting the grade so to speak. I thought that it

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Book/E-Book

I Wanna Be A Chef Unit Study

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Curriculum Reviews

Latina Christiana: Memoria Press

I have wanted to start teaching a foreign language to my kids for some time now. I bought a Spanish set last year,

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Curriculum Reviews

Tapestry of Grace

You know I have found over the years that there is no right or wrong way to teach your children. In every homeschool there

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Crafts

Easter Freebies

Easter is almost here and The Old School House has done it again. They are giving away a whole bunch of fun free activities

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Homeschooling: All Things

Schleich Action Figures

What a joy it was to open this box. My kids were overjoyed to see a box full of animals from Schleich to add

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Curriculum Reviews

Critical Thinking

Critical Thining is a company who has so many parent, teacher in addition to other educational awards as well as they should. First let

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Homeschooling: All Things

Alphabet Alley Magnet Playset

Ok, this has got to be one of the greatest little products my daughter (3) has received to review for me. When I

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Curriculum Reviews

Homeschooling in the Woods

If you love to lapbook, you will LOVE this product.

Homeschool in the Woods sent to me the New Testament Lapbook. I already had

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Homeschooling: All Things

Savings of up to 80%

Do you like saving up to 80%? Get next year’s shopping done early and for less money at the March Madness

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Homeschooling: All Things

One 2 Believe – Noah’s Ark

One 2 Believe has shipped to me once again. YEA!!!! So far we have NOT been disappointed by any of

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Art

Artistic Pursuits: the Art curriculum for Creativity

Artistic Pursuits: the Art curriculum

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Curriculum Reviews

Five in a Row

Last year my son and I learned a little bit about Early American Five in a Row

Articles

Choosing Your School Year Schedule

One of the most difficult tasks to accomplish with homeschooling is planning your schedule. We sit down a month or so before

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Computer

Math Tudor

I was never did well in school at math and

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Computer

SpellQuizzer

So let me tell you about SpellQuizzer. This is a computer-based program where you enter the child’s SpellQuizzer

Bible

Bible Story Songs

You know as a singer and a children’s choir director at my church, I know just how powerful music can be. The words can

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Curriculum Reviews

Heads Up! Reading Strips

I received some reading strips for review From Heads Up!. These are for the student who has a little trouble keeping his

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Curriculum Reviews

Write Shop

I had a chance to look over a product by Writeshop. WriteShop is designed to teach composition skills in a step-by-step manner. Through

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Book/E-Book

All About Homophones

Wow Mary Rippel did it again! Here is another great program from All About Spelling. It’s All About Homophones. Teaching homophones can

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Computer

Kinderbach

I was really excited to review Kinderbach since I am a singer and teach the children’s choir at my church. First let me say that

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Book/E-Book

Math Mammoth

Maria Miller is the author of the Math Mammoth, which is a series of math workbooks that are available in e-book format. Now first

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Homeschooling: All Things

ABC & 123 Lapbook

We made the cutest tacktile ABC and 123 Lapbook. You just have to check out the pictures. Click here to see it.

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