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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 1-27-14

By KristinN, on January 31st, 2014

So this week I have decided to get my little boy back into copy work. We have not done that for a while. But the other day I was trying to read something he had written and it was not legible. So it got me thinking, why not get some wonderful Christian Character poems and

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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 1-13-14

By KristinN, on January 19th, 2014

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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 12-2-13

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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School Week of 10-7-13

By KristinN, on October 12th, 2013

Ahh, Another week of school down. Have I mentioned how much I love being home with my kids every day? Although, yes, I admit that there are times I am glad to get out for a couple of hours either by myself or with friends, but overall I love teaching them and I adore learning

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School Week of 9-30-13

By KristinN, on October 7th, 2013

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Daughter start to glossory of words for Lesson 3

Daughters Bible Notebook page

Son’s Bible Foundation Building

Sons Bible Notebook Page

Sn’s Glossory of words for Bible

Daughter’s Englsih Page

Son’s composition writing

Daughter’s Englsih Page

Son’s Englsih Page

Daughter’s mapping of North America

Here is her completed insert for Geography

What a great flag of Canada. She did a good job

My son’s really loves when we do our geography terms pages. Plateau was this week topic

My son’s outline map of North America

My son did a great job with teh Canada flag

Plateau was this weeks geo term. Here is my daughters idea of that!

My daughter’s History mapping of the Spread of Islam

My daughter’s History Coloring pages

Our project this wee for history

Shes doing a very careful and colorful job

Here it is. What is it? Am snake of course

So I had to get into the coloring of the snakes

Cutting it out

My son’s History mapping of the Spread of Islam

My daughter’s coloring page for History

The start of the snake

My son finishing the color on his snake

My son’s snale

Here are all our snakes hanging. Just like the snakes in the story of Sinbad the Sailor

Math!

More MAth

So we are learning about Carnivorous animals. And the first one is DOGS!

Howling! Coloring page for science

The start of our science on Dogs. YEA!

Notebooking page for Science

SPELLING

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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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 #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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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 5

By KristinN, on October 8th, 2012

Sorry, I got really busy over the weekend last week and just did not get to posting my week in review. Anyhow, we had a lovely week. We read about Esau and the deception that went down for stealing the blessing away. I think this is a very sad story and not a great father

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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 3

By KristinN, on September 21st, 2012

School so far is going great. This week for Bible we have learned the stories of Abraham and Sarah, Hagar and Ishmael as well as Isaac and all of the stories that go along with them. As you can see by their sweet drawings they are understanding our history. I still always get a giggle at the

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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 28

By KristinN, on May 12th, 2012

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 much I am so ready for summer. I am sure there are several of you out there like that too. Well, anyway, Unit 28 was just as good

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 27

By KristinN, on May 5th, 2012

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. He was kind of like Audubon, but he did not kill the animals to

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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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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 22

By KristinN, on March 16th, 2012

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 week. Our week started with learning more information about John Audubon. Most of

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 18 Update

By KristinN, on February 10th, 2012

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 my voice is back so I was able to sing while I was teaching

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Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 17 Update

By KristinN, on February 3rd, 2012

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!

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How Can Home-schooling Parents Start A Real School?

By KristinN, on March 1st, 2010

FORUM:

My Mom is trying to find out how to start a school so she can paid money for home-schooling my sister and I. How do you do that? Does anybody know? She's been looking online but can't figure anything out. Help?

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

By KristinN, on February 28th, 2010

FORUM:

I am doing research for a Masters level education course and am thinking about writing my thesis on the sociological benefits and drawbacks of homeschooling. So many people argue that homeschoolers do not get the same amount of socialization as those who attend "traditional schools". I am going to start by looking at motivations

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What Are The Biggest Problems That Parents Who Home School Face?

By KristinN, on February 22nd, 2010

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

Do you struggle with not knowing all of the effective techniques that a certified teacher would know? Do you have trouble making the learning experiences fun and meaningful? If someone started a business as a home school consultant, what specific types of services should he or she provide to

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

By KristinN, on February 16th, 2010

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

I'm putting together a support website for parents, teachers and homeschoolers. Details would be great. What are your most difficult areas in facilitating the children's learning? What do you believe to be the most important areas? Do you work with other families or homeschooling communities? How many kids in

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Any Home School Families Where Both Parents Work?

By KristinN, on February 14th, 2010

From Our Forum a Reader Asks:

Right now, my husband stays home with my 20-month-old son. We're going to home school him, but our home situation may change between now and then. Any experienced home school families, with both parents working, able to give some advice?