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#gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ My daughter’s composition: making a ceral box Daughter’s composition: making a cereal ad Continue reading School Week of October 20, 2014  October 25th, 2014 | Tags: 50 states, A+ Math, All About Spelling, Aplus Math Thudor, Apologia, Apologia Human Anatomy, Apologia Human Physiology, Apologia Jump In, Apologia Science, Capita, Choir, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Education.com, Highlights, History/Geography, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooled, Homeschooling: All Things, Human Anatomy, Human Physiology, I'm a Writer, Jump In, Lamp and Quill, Music, Orange Coast Musical Arts, Piano, Regions of USA, Rod & Staff Penmanship, Rod and Staff, Rod and Staff Englsih, Rod and Staff Health, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, The Story of the World, USA, Vocabulary City, Vocabulary Spelling City, Which Way USA, Windows 8 | Category: 2014-2015 School Year, Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment
#gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Alaska Geography-daughter Alaska Geography History-daughter History-daughter History-son History-son Science experiment on bones Science experiment on bones Science experiment on bones 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!!! October 19th, 2014 | Tags: 50 states, A+ Math, All About Spelling, Aplus Math Thudor, Apologia, Apologia Human Anatomy, Apologia Human Physiology, Apologia Jump In, Apologia Science, Capita, Choir, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Education.com, Highlights, History/Geography, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooled, Homeschooling: All Things, Human Anatomy, Human Physiology, I'm a Writer, Jump In, Lamp and Quill, Music, Orange Coast Musical Arts, Piano, Regions of USA, Rod & Staff Penmanship, Rod and Staff, Rod and Staff Englsih, Rod and Staff Health, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, The Story of the World, USA, Vocabulary City, Vocabulary Spelling City, Which Way USA, Windows 8 | Category: 2014-2015 School Year, Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment #gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-3 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-3 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Hawaii Geography-son Hawaii Geogrpahy-daughter Geogrpahy-daughter History -son History -son History-daughter Science experiments of the bones Science experiments of the bones Science experiments of the bones Science-bone names Science-bone names Science experiments of the bones Science experiments of the bones Science experiments of the bones Typing-daughter Typing-son See you on the flip side! October 12th, 2014 | Tags: 50 states, A+ Math, All About Spelling, Aplus Math Thudor, Apologia, Apologia Human Anatomy, Apologia Human Physiology, Apologia Jump In, Apologia Science, Capita, Choir, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Education.com, Highlights, History/Geography, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooled, Homeschooling: All Things, Human Anatomy, Human Physiology, I'm a Writer, Jump In, Lamp and Quill, Music, Orange Coast Musical Arts, Piano, Regions of USA, Rod & Staff Penmanship, Rod and Staff, Rod and Staff Englsih, Rod and Staff Health, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, The Story of the World, USA, Vocabulary City, Vocabulary Spelling City, Which Way USA, Windows 8 | Category: 2014-2015 School Year, Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment #gallery-4 { margin: auto; } #gallery-4 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-4 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-4 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Daughter’s Geography Map for Washington Daughter’s Geography for Washington Son’s Geography Continue reading School Week of September 29, 2014 October 5th, 2014 | Tags: 50 states, A+ Math, All About Spelling, Aplus Math Thudor, Apologia, Apologia Human Anatomy, Apologia Human Physiology, Apologia Jump In, Apologia Science, Capita, Choir, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Education.com, Highlights, History/Geography, Home School, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooled, Homeschooling: All Things, Human Anatomy, Human Physiology, I'm a Writer, Jump In, Lamp and Quill, Music, Orange Coast Musical Arts, Piano, Regions of USA, Rod & Staff Penmanship, Rod and Staff, Rod and Staff Englsih, Rod and Staff Health, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, The Story of the World, USA, Vocabulary City, Vocabulary Spelling City, Which Way USA, Windows 8 | Category: 2014-2015 School Year, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Leave a comment 
#gallery-5 { margin: auto; } #gallery-5 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-5 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-5 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Project on how important bones are for stability! The science of bones Continue reading School Week of September 22, 2014 September 27th, 2014 | Tags: 50 states, A+ Math, All About Spelling, Aplus Math Tudor, Apologia, Apologia Human Anatomy, Apologia Human Physiology, Apologia Jump In, Apologia Science, Capitals, Choir, Curriculum Reviews, Education.com, Highlights, History/Geography, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Human Anatomy, Human Physiology, I'm a Writer, Jump In, Lamp and Quill, Music, OCMA, Orange Coast Musical Arts, Piano, Regions of USA, Rod & Staff Penmanship, Rod and Staff, Rod and Staff Health, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, The Story of the World, USA, Vocabulary City, Vocabulary Spelling City, Which Way USA, Windows 8 | Category: 2014-2015 School Year, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life | Leave a comment 
#gallery-6 { margin: auto; } #gallery-6 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-6 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-6 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Son’s Map work for History Daughter’s Map work for History Son’s Continue reading School the week of Sept 15, 2014 September 20th, 2014 | Tags: 50 states, A Plus Math tUDOR, A+ Math, All About Spelling, Apologia, Apologia Jump In, Apologia Science, Capitals, Choir, Education.com, Highlights, Human Anatomy, Human Physiology, I'm a Writer, Jump In, Lamp and Quill, Music, OCMA, Orange Coast Musical Arts, Piano, Regions of USA, Rod & Staff Penmanship, Rod and Staff, Rod and Staff Englsih, Rod and Staff Health, Science, SOTW, Spelling City, The Story of the World, USA, Vocabulary City, Vocabulary Spelling City, Which Way USA, Windows 8 | Category: 2014-2015 School Year, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Leave a comment 
#gallery-7 { margin: auto; } #gallery-7 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-7 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-7 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Daughter’s King Charles Inheritance in Western Europe and S. America Son’s King Charles’ Continue reading Our First Week of School in 2014 September 13th, 2014 | Tags: 50 states, A Plus Math tUDOR, A+ Math, Apologia, Apologia Jump In, Apologia Science, Capitals, Choir, Education.com, Highlights, History/Geography, Human Anatomy, Human Physiology, I'm a Writer, Jump In, Lamp and Quill, Music, OCMA, Orange Coast Musical Arts, Piano, Regions of USA, Rod & Staff Penmanship, Rod and Staff, Rod and Staff Englsih, Rod and Staff Health, Schooling, SOTW, Spelling City, Story of the World, USA, Vocabulary City, Vocabulary Spelling City, Which Way USA, Windows 8 | Category: 2014-2015 School Year, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Leave a comment 
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 Continue reading A New school year is ready to start August 30th, 2014 | Tags: first day of school, Homeschool, homeschool organization, homeschool room, new homeschool, organization, organized homeschooler | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life | Leave a comment It is that time of year. Out with the old and in with the new. My little girl is now old enough that I can start selling some of my old curriculum. I am going to do several blog posts here as well as posting to a few other sights. BTW, we live in a Continue reading CURRICULUM SALE : Rod and Staff July 14th, 2014 | Tags: Curriculum sale, Rod and Staff, Rod and Staff sale, sales | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life, Sales | Leave a comment Ruminant animals. Yea, the first thing we all think of is a cow. but as we learned this week, ruminants are not just cows. It is you bovine order that are all cud chewers. So just to name a handful, Gazelles and Antelope and Impalas, Bison, Buffalo, Wilder beast Caprines, Deer, Giraffe, are all ruminant Continue reading School Week of 5-19 thru 5-23-2014 May 25th, 2014 | Tags: Abeka, Apologia, apologia who is God, Bible, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, High, History/Geography, Home, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Reviews, Rod and Staff, School, Schooled, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment
Our week continues in learning about those adorable ungulates. Horses, Giraffes, cows, camels, llamas, deer, rhinos, pigs and many, many more. This week you many have noticed we learned about ungulates that had hooves. We read how to tell a horse who has shoes from a non shoe horse. To be honest, not sure Continue reading School Week of 5-12 through 5-16-2014 May 16th, 2014 | Tags: Abeka, Apologia, apologia who is God, Bible, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, Home, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Reviews, Rod and Staff, School, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading School Week of 5-5 through 5-9 May 12th, 2014 | Tags: Abeka, Apologia, apologia who is God, Bible, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, Homeschool, Homeschooling: All Things, Parents, Rod and Staff, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment First let me start off by saying May will be EXTREMELY busy for me. I have something going every weekend. I won’t even have time to stop and celebrate my birthday on the 9th. I have concerts that i am singing in and concerts that my children’s choirs I teach are singing in. Whew, I Continue reading School Week of 4-28 through 5-2-14 May 4th, 2014 | Tags: Abeka, Apologia, apologia who is God, Bible, Children, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, Home, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Personal, Rod and Staff, SOTW, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies | Category: History/Geography, Homeschooling: All Things, Math, Personal Life, Reading, Science, Writing | Leave a comment Well we finished up our week in science with a great experiment. We have been learning about Rodents ad their kind or not so kind for the past couple weeks. Very interesting stuff. I have a greater appreciation for Beavers now. Not that I never had an appreciation for them before. But to see how Continue reading School Week of 4-21 through 4-25-14 April 26th, 2014 | Tags: Abeka, Apologia, apologia who is God, Bible, Botany, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, Home, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Rod and Staff, School, Schooled, Schooling, Science, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies | Category: History/Geography, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Leave a comment Our week of school right before Easter! #gallery-19 { margin: auto; } #gallery-19 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-19 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-19 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Science Science Vincent’s Reading Reading Reading Reading Raquel’s African mask for History Raquel’s African mask for History Vincent’s African mask for HistoryVincent’s African mask for History Vincent’s African mask for History the making of the masks working hard on the masks History History History History History History History History History Geography Geography English English Creative Writing Creative Writing Copywork 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 Continue reading Weeks and weeks April 4th, 2014 | Tags: Abeka, Apologia, apologia who is God, Bible, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Reviews, Rod and Staff, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment What a week. It is the first week that I have felt healthy in 3 months. I had more energy and get up and go then I thought I could have. This made school a lot more fun and exciting for us too. The last few months have really been hit or miss with my Continue reading School Week of 2-10-14 February 17th, 2014 | Tags: Apologia, apologia who is God, Bible, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Rod and Staff, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading School Week 1-27-14 January 31st, 2014 | Tags: Abeka, Apologia, apologia who is God, Bible, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, FREE, History/Geography, Home, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Personal, Reviews, Rod and Staff, School, Schooled, Schooling, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment
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 Continue reading school Week 1-20-14 January 20th, 2014 | Tags: Apologia, apologia who is God, Bible, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, FREE, High, History/Geography, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Parents, Rod and Staff, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment Continue reading School Week 1-13-14 January 19th, 2014 | Tags: Abeka, Apologia, apologia who is God, Bible, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, FREE, High, History/Geography, Homeschool Curriculum, Kids, Parents, Personal, Reviews, Rod and Staff, Schooling, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading School Week of 1-6-14 January 12th, 2014 | Tags: Apologia, apologia who is God, Bible, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, FREE, History/Geography, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Kids, Parents, Rod and Staff, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading School Week of 12-9-13 December 15th, 2013 | Tags: Abeka, Apologia, Bible, Botany, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, History/Geography, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Personal, Schooling, Science, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading School Week of 12-2-13 December 8th, 2013 | Tags: Apologia, apologia w, Bible, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Parents, Personal, Program, Public, Rod and Staff, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading School Week of 11-11-13 November 18th, 2013 | Tags: Abeka, Apologia, Apologia Land animals, apologia who is God, Bible, Botany, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, FREE, History/Geography, Homeschool, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Land Animals, Parents, Personal, Rod and Staff, School, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment
What another amazing week of school. First off it was Halloween week which is always fun. We decorated the house for fall. Now mind you we don’t have any real Halloween decoration so my kids talked me into some mini glow in the dark skeletons and the fake cob webs. It was fun to Continue reading School Week of 10-28-13 November 3rd, 2013 | Tags: Abeka, Apologia, Apologia Land animals, apologia who is God, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Rod and Staff, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading Another Week of (10-21-13) School October 27th, 2013 | Tags: Abeka, All About Spelling, Apologia, apologia who is God, Bible, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Rod and Staff, Schooled, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment #gallery-27 { margin: auto; } #gallery-27 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-27 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-27 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Son’s Vocabualry for Bible Daughter’s vocabulary for Bible 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
October 20th, 2013 | Tags: Abeka, Apologia, Bible, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal, Rod and Staff, School, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading School Week of 10-7-13 October 12th, 2013 | Tags: Apologia, Bible, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, FREE, History/Geography, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Parents, Personal, Program, Reviews, Rod and Staff, School, Schooled, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Who is God, Who is God and How Can I really Know Him, Your | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment #gallery-29 { margin: auto; } #gallery-29 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-29 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-29 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Bible Coloring Page Bible Coloring Page Bible Coloring Page Daughter Bible Foundations Page. Just the start 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 Daughter’s Englsih Page Daughter’s Englsih Page Son’s composition writing Daughter’s Englsih Page Son’s Englsih Page Son’s Englsih Page Son’s Englsih Page Son’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 October 7th, 2013 | Tags: Apologia, Bible, Botany, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, FREE, Good, History/Geography, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Parents, Reviews, Rod and Staff, School, Schooled, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies, Who is God, Who is God and How Can I really Know Him | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment
Can you believe that September is almost over? Holy cow! It seems as if it just started. All the stores have their Halloween decoration and some even have started to put their Christmas decorations out. UUGGHH! This is going Waaaaaay too fast for me. Anyhow, this week was a hard week for Continue reading Week 9-23-13 of School 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 Continue reading Week 9-16-13 of School September 20th, 2013 | Tags: Abeka, Apologia, Bible, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, English, Exploring Land Animals on the Sixth Day, Heart of Dakota, History/Geography, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Math, Parents, Personal, Reading, Reviews, Rod and Staff, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, What, Who is God and How Can I really Know Him | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment
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 Continue reading Week of 9-9-13 School September 14th, 2013 | Tags: Apologia, Bible, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Exploring Land Animals on the Sixth Day, Grader, Heart of Dakota, History/Geography, HOD, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Reviews, Rod and Staff, School, Schooled, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Trail Guide to World Geography, Unit Studies, Who is God, Who is God and How Can I really Know Him | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading Week 8-26-13 of School August 23rd, 2013 | Tags: Abeka, Apologia, Bible, Charlotte Mason Style, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Homeschool, Homeschooling: All Things, Literature, Parents, Reviews, Rod and Staff, Schooled, Schooling, SOTW, story of the world. unitstudies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading Week 8-19-13 of School August 19th, 2013 | Tags: Abeka, Apologia, Bible, Charlotte Mason Style, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Literature, Parents, Reviews, Rod and Staff, Schooled, Schooling, SOTW, Story of the World, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment I know, it has been a while since I have posted anything on here. As a matter of fact I did not even post the last couple weeks of school. Things got so beat up around here right around then with medical appointments etc that the last thing on my mind was taking time to Continue reading Time To Get Started For history we finished up our projects on the ancient Americas . So as I said last week we were learning about the Ancient Americas and one of the things we took a long look at was the Nazca drawing in South America and how they were probably actually done. Math and the stars is Continue reading 2012-2013 School Year: Week 22 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 Continue reading 2012-2013 School Year: Week 21 March 10th, 2013 | Tags: Apologia, Bible, Botany, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Personal, Reviews, Schooled, Schooling, SOTW, Story of the World, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading 2012-2013 School Year: Week 20 March 1st, 2013 | Tags: Apologia, Bible, Botany, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Personal, School, Schooled, Schooling, SOTW, Story of the World, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading 2012-2013 School Year: Week 19 February 24th, 2013 | Tags: Apologia, attitude, Bible, Botany, Children, Curriculum Reviews, discipline, Easy Homeschooling, Good, History/Geography, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parenting, Parents, Personal, Reviews, reward system, School, Schooled, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading 2013-2013 School Year: Week 18 February 19th, 2013 | Tags: Apologia, Bible, Botany, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Personal, Public, Reviews, School, Schooled, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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. Continue reading 2013-2013 School Year: Week 17 February 15th, 2013 | Tags: Apologia, Bible, Botany, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Reviews, School, Schooled, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment You know, I found out this week that using a balloon for a helmet may not be the best thing in the world. Wait till you see the pictures below. Anyhow, the kids had a blast making a paper mache helmet even if it was like a hallow basketball on their heads. LOL!!! The whole Continue reading 2013-2013 School Year: Week 16 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 Continue reading 2012-2013 School Year: Week 15 January 20th, 2013 | Tags: Apologia, Bible, Botany, Brandon Withrow, Children, Chronicles of Ancient Church, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, FREE, History/Geography, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Mindy and Brandon Withrow, Mindy Withrow, Online, Peril & Peace, Peril and Peace, Reviews, School, SOTW, Story of the World, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading 2012-2013 School Year week: 14 January 11th, 2013 | Tags: Apologia, Bible, Children, children's Illistrated Bible, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Reviews, School, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, The Story of the World, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading 2012-2013 School Year: Week #12 December 7th, 2012 | Tags: Apologia, Bible, Botany, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Good, Grader, History/Geography, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Public, Reviews, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading 2012-2013 School Year: Week #11 November 24th, 2012 | Tags: Apologia, Bible, Botany, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Public, Reviews, School, Schooled, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment This was not the best of weeks. Both the kids were sick. But we did manage to get a few things done this week. We finished up learning about the New Kingdom of Egypt and spent some time reading abut King Tut and a few others from that time period. We also found some great Continue reading 2012-2013 School Year: Week #10 November 17th, 2012 | Tags: Apologia, Botany, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, FREE, Home, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Reviews, School, Schooled, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading 2012-2013 School Year: Week #9 November 9th, 2012 | Tags: Africa, Apologia, Botany, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Egypt, History/Geography, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Math, Parents, Personal, pollination, Reviews, School, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading Chuck E Cheese Coupons November 7th, 2012 | Tags: chuck E Cheese, Chuckie Cheese, Coupons, Homeschool | Category: Homeschooling: All Things | 2 comments Week 7 already? Man o man it seems like just yesterday we sat down for our first day of school. However, I feel like we have learned so darn much so far, Especially in History. For instance learning about ancient India and ancient China has been very interesting. I never Continue reading 2012-2013 School Year: Week #8 Art this week was rather a fun subject. Learning to draw all the aspects of a Merry go round can be tricky. There is so much going on there and to put that all down in a drawing. Well, I think we each did a great job! We all had some sort of animal that Continue reading School 2012-2013 Week#7 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 Continue reading School 2012-2013: Weekly 6 October 13th, 2012 | Tags: Apologia, Art, Atlier, Bible, Botany, Children, Creation, Creative Writing, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Geography, History/Geography, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Joseph, Kids, Math, Parents, Pennmenship, Reading, Reviews, School, Schooled, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Weekly Update | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading School 2012-2013: Week 5 October 8th, 2012 | Tags: Apologia, Bible, Botany, Creative Writing, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Exploring Creation, History/Geography, Home, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Math, Parents, Reading, Reviews, School, Schooled, Schooling, SOTW, Spelling, Story of the World, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Weekly Update | Leave a comment 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. Continue reading School 2012-2013: Week 4 September 29th, 2012 | Tags: Apologia, Bible, Curriculum Reviews, Does, Easy Homeschooling, FREE, Geography, Good, Heart of Dakota, History/Geography, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Online, Parents, Personal, Phonics, Reading, Reviews, Rod and Staff, School, Schooling, Science, SOTW, Story of the World, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Weekly Update | One comment 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 Continue reading School 2012-2013 Week 3 September 21st, 2012 | Tags: Apologia, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, History/Geography, HOD, Home, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Reviews, Rod and Staff, School, Schooling, Start, Story of the World, the Children's Illistrated bible, Unit Studies, What | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life, Weekly Update | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading School 2012-2013 Week 2 September 15th, 2012 | Tags: Apologia, Bible, Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Public, School, SOTW, Start, Story of the World | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life, Weekly Update | Leave a comment We had a wonderful first week of school. We were all a little tired after school each day due to the extra brain power we were putting out, but other then that my schedule and timing for each subject was spot on. I guess after doing this for 6 years I have become a pro Continue reading School 2012 Week 1 September 8th, 2012 | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Weekly Update | Leave a comment Well it is that time of year once again. We are all clamoring to get our books, clean out old school stuff, decorate our school rooms and get ourselves geared up to get school started. It was hard for me this year to decide on what I was going to do. I REALLY wanted to Continue reading Ready, Set Go! Well, summer is almost over. Can you believe it? I took all of July off from blogging and doing much of anything. Yes, we did do a bit of schooling here and there, but nothing huge. This coming week is VBS at our home church so once that week is over it is back to Continue reading Summer Vacation is Over? Uuggh! Hard week this week. We were so out and about this week I felt as if we never had time for anything and that we were pushing all week to finish school early! Oh well, that is OK. We got it done and that is what matters. This week we finished the Wright Brothers Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 32 June 9th, 2012 | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | Leave a comment Well, we are still reading about the Wright Brother's and their sister. Once again, we are really enjoying that book! I have to admit these last couple weeks we have put off doing our story-time, bad Mama. The book we are suppose to be doing is Esperanza Rising. So my plan is to start reading Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 31 June 2nd, 2012 | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 30 May 25th, 2012 | Tags: Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, FREE, Good, Heart of Dakota, High, HOD, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Personal, Schooled, Schooling, Unit Studies, What | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | One comment 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 Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 29 May 18th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Personal, School, Schooled, Schooling, Unit Studies, What | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 28 May 12th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, High, HOD, Home, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Personal, Public, Reviews, School, Started, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | Leave a comment 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 Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 27 May 5th, 2012 | Tags: About, Best, Children, Cost, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Find, Good, Heart of Dakota, High, HOD, Home, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Public, Reviews, Schooling, Unit Studies, What, Your | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | Leave a comment Just a reminder of the upcoming Homeschool Convention coming this month. There is also the CHEA convention in July which I post on that in a few short weeks. Meanwhile, here is another opportunity to learn more about homeschooling or to just get geared up for fall or even to just take a break Continue reading California Homeschool Convention in Long Beach May 3rd, 2012 | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Seminar/Confrence | Leave a comment I am sure a ton of you have heard of the website Homeschool Library Builder. Well, I get many of my books form there as well as Amazon. They have a good selection and their prices are great, but when they have a sale it is even better. They even have penny sales too. If Continue reading Homeschool Library Builder 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 Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 26 April 28th, 2012 | Tags: Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Home, Homeschool, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Personal, Public, Reviews, Schooling, Unit Studies | Category: Homeschooling: All Things, Unit Studies | Leave a comment AB 2109: Vaccination Waiver Threatened—Calls Needed Call now to protect parental rights. HSLDA President Mike Smith has been an advocate of homeschooling for more than 30 years. Read more >> Joint Legislative Action Alert—April 26, 2012 From: Roy Hanson—Family Protection Ministries and Mike Smith—HSLDA Bill: AB Continue reading California Vaccination Waiver Threatened 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 Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 25 April 23rd, 2012 | Tags: Best, Children, Cost, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Grader, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Online, Parents, Personal, Public, School, Schooling, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | One comment 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 Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 24 April 6th, 2012 | Tags: Bible, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Have, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Home, Homeschool, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, learning, Online, Parents, Public, Reviews, School, Schooling, study, What | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Leave a comment
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 Continue reading Webcast – Spreading The Homeschool Message April 4th, 2012 | Tags: Homeschool, homeschool message, Homeschooling: All Things, share, webcast | Category: Articles, FREE, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News | Leave a comment Mandatory Kindergarten??
Please be prepared to take action against AB 2203. HSLDA President Mike Smith has been an advocate of homeschooling for more than 30 years. Read more >> From: Roy Hanson—Family Protection Ministries and Mike Smith—HSLDA Bill: AB 2203 (as introduced 2/23/12)—5-Year-Old Compulsory Education Author: Continue reading Mandatory Kindergarten (CA) Bill Delayed Well, I have to say this week was not the most fun week. I guess because I was coming off of being very sick last week and having to push our Easter break back a couple weeks. And to top it all off, I did not prepare for this week. You see I usually on Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger week 23 March 30th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Home, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Reviews, School, Schooling, Unit Studies, What | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | One comment As graduation ceremonies were under way, there was a stern warning that this class would NOT pray during the commencements, not by choice, but because of a recent court ruling prohibiting it however… Continue reading God Bless You! March 28th, 2012 | Category: Biblical, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Politics | Leave a comment Oppose Expansion of Government Control over Education Act now to oppose AB 2203. HSLDA President Mike Smith has been an advocate of homeschooling for more than 30 years. Read more >> From: Roy Hanson’s Family Protection Ministries and Mike Smith’s HSLDA Bill: AB 2203 (as Continue reading Oppose Expansion of Government Control over Education 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 Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 22 March 16th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Home, Homeschooling: All Things, Online, Parents, Personal, Reviews, School, Schooled, Schooling, Unit Studies, Work | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Leave a comment ABC-TV has decided that it can take direct aim at Christians with what amounts to hate speech. This is the premise of its new program GCB (which stands for Good Christian B*****es). We need to fight back. This program ridicules Christians, Christianity, the Bible, and Christian symbols in ways that would be unthinkable if aimed Continue reading TV Series Mocks Christians, Undermines Liberty March 13th, 2012 | Tags: ABC, christians, GCB, Good Christian Bitches, HSLDA, In the News, Ridicule Christians | Category: Articles, Biblical, Homeschooling: All Things, In the News | Leave a comment OK, you all know what my first words are going to be. This was a great week as usual. We started off learning about our 7th President, Andrew Jackson. So one of the things I did was to do flash cards for the first 5 Presidents. I happen to have had these for some years Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 21 March 10th, 2012 | Tags: Easy Homeschooling, FREE, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Personal, Reviews, Schooled, Schooling, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Leave a comment This week was cut a bit short. Yesterday afternoon both my kids and the entire household came down with fevers. So needless to say we only completed 4 days of the 5 days for week 20. That is OK, we will just do Friday on Monday and then combine unit Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 20 March 2nd, 2012 | Tags: Children, Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Reviews, School, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Leave a comment OK, OK, here are those famous words once again. We had a great week. Actually it was short. I actually combined Friday's material to Thursday so I could have Friday off. You see my son's is turning 10 tomorrow (2-25) and I wanted to have Friday to get everything ready for his little party at Continue reading Heart of Dakota:Bigger Week 19 February 24th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Grader, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Program, Public, School, Schooled, Schooling, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Parenting, Personal Life, Reviews | Leave a comment I want to make very sure that it is well known that not all of these sites I have posted are Christian, so please visit them first to make sure you approve of them before you send your children there. I have not seen anything myself that was completely wrong or offensive or even Continue reading FREE Curriculm and FREE Resources February 12th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, FREE, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Reviews | Category: Art, Bible, Biblical, Computer, Crafts, Curriculum Reviews, English, Foriegn Language, FREE, History/Geography, Holidays, Homeschooling: All Things, Lesson Planning, Math, Music, Organization, Reading, Reviews, Science, Unit Studies, Writing | 6 comments 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 Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 18 Update February 10th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Home, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, Parents, Program, Reviews, School, Schooled, Schooling, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Leave a comment So I realized there are many homeschoolers who have not heard of Homeschool Buyers Co-op. Just in my small Park Day group only a couple of us have ever heard of this web site. So I figured I have thousands of readers and there has to be many of you who have not heard of it Continue reading Homeschooler Buyers Co-op February 9th, 2012 | Tags: curriculum discounts, Curriculum Reviews, curriculum sales, discount, ebooks, FREE, homeschool confrence, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Kids, School, Schooled, Unit Studies | Category: Articles, Book/E-Book, Computer, Curriculum Reviews, Economy, English, Foriegn Language, FREE, History/Geography, Homeschooling: All Things, Math, Music, Personal Life, Reading, Sales, Science, Seminar/Confrence, Unit Studies, Writing | Leave a comment This post is really only for those living in the Virginia area or who really want to travel to Virginia. It is also for those who have or are approaching High School time. HSLDA (which you should all be a member of) is having a live seminar for those approaching the high school days of Continue reading HSLDA High School Teacher Training Programs I love using maps in my homeschooling. I know I am using Heart of Dakota and they pretty much have everything outlined for me in geography, but I still like to add in map skills whenever I can. I found a couple of sites that has some really great black-line maps for FREE and they print Continue reading Blackline Maps and the 50 States February 6th, 2012 | Tags: 50 states, black line maps, blackline maps, Curriculum Reviews, free maps, maps, states, Unit Studies, united states, united states maps, world maps, worldmaps | Category: FREE, History/Geography, Homeschooling: All Things | One comment 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 February 3rd, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Easy Homeschooling, Heart of Dakota, HOD, Home School, Homeschool Curriculum, Homeschooling: All Things, Parents, Reviews, School, Unit Studies | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life, Unit Studies | Leave a comment 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 January 24th, 2012 | Category: History/Geography, Homeschooling: All Things, Local Mom Review | Leave a comment 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 January 20th, 2012 | Category: FREE, History/Geography, Homeschooling: All Things, Local Mom Review | Leave a comment 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 January 13th, 2012 | Tags: Curriculum Reviews, Heart of Dakota, History/Geography, HOD, Science, timeline | Category: HOD Week in Review, Homeschooling: All Things, Personal Life | Leave a comment 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 |
