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By KristinN, on October 25th, 2014
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By KristinN, on October 19th, 2014
#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!!!
By KristinN, on October 12th, 2014 #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!
By KristinN, on October 5th, 2014 #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
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By KristinN, on May 25th, 2014 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
By KristinN, on May 16th, 2014
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
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By KristinN, on May 12th, 2014 Another week gone by and here we are again. We are narrowing down the weeks until the end of the school year. I am looking forward to everything just stopping for a little bit. I love homeschooling, I love teaching choir, but I also need a break!!!!
This week we moved from the European and
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By KristinN, on May 4th, 2014 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
By KristinN, on April 26th, 2014 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
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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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By KristinN, on February 17th, 2014 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
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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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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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By KristinN, on January 19th, 2014
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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By KristinN, on December 15th, 2013 Hey ya all! What a great week of school. Even though we are busy, busy, busy with the holidays and so forth we are having a wonderful week. This week we made a ton of gifts for our family and friends. You know things are financially TIGHT right now for our family, as many families
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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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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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By KristinN, on November 3rd, 2013
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
By KristinN, on October 27th, 2013 What a week. I always get amazed at how much we really learn each week. Well I have to start with art this week. We are learning so much this year. We are using the Gluck method of training. So far the pictures we are drawing are just beautiful. This past week we drew, using
Continue reading Another Week of (10-21-13) School
By KristinN, on October 20th, 2013 #gallery-16 { margin: auto; } #gallery-16 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-16 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-16 .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
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
Continue reading School Week of 10-7-13
By KristinN, on October 7th, 2013 #gallery-18 { margin: auto; } #gallery-18 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-18 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-18 .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
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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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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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
Continue reading Week 8-26-13 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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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
Continue reading 2012-2013 School Year: Week 21
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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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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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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By KristinN, on February 15th, 2013 Very interesting week we had. First off I am posting this post a week late. I totally realized today that I am a week behind in my posting and I do not know how I did that. Oh well, such is life! The fact that I get it posted is much more important then when.
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By KristinN, on January 20th, 2013 Well, this week on Friday I had a scare. My blood pressure was well over 190/90. Now for one day that would not be bad, but this lasted 4 days. I ended up in ER on Friday and well, from there we figured it was stress that is the culprit. Figures. I guess I do
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By KristinN, on January 11th, 2013 OM Gosh, was it hard to get back into the swing of thing. I was kind of talked into taking 3 weeks off for the holiday season. Well, both choirs I teach were taking three weeks off from the program and several of my friends were doing the same, so
Continue reading 2012-2013 School Year week: 14
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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By KristinN, on November 24th, 2012 Well, another short week this week, but at least not due to illness. We are taking half of this week off and a couple days next week for Thanksgiving. Speaking of, how was your Thanksgiving? Ours was perfecto. Being a vegetarian, and a new one at that (9 months), I was wondering how this was
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By KristinN, on November 17th, 2012 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
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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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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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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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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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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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By KristinN, on September 15th, 2012 Well, another week down. I can not believe it has been two weeks already into the school year. Wow, how time flies. Anyhow, we had another good week. My son and I did have a couple migraines this week each that made school a bit tough, but I am use to it by now and
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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By KristinN, on March 30th, 2012 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
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By KristinN, on March 10th, 2012 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
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By KristinN, on March 2nd, 2012 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
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By KristinN, on February 24th, 2012 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
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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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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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By KristinN, on December 17th, 2011 This is a hard time of year for me to stay focused on school. With all the performances either that I am in or I am directing and parties and shopping and cleaning and preparing. Uugghh, it can over-take my mind and life. I think that is why I am very thankful that I am using
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By KristinN, on November 13th, 2011 So I know most of you who may have gotten this post a few days ago are saying where is the actual blog post? Well, I am on vacation and so far until this very moment I have not had a chance to sit down and write. So I thought I will just post the
Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 9 Update
By KristinN, on November 5th, 2011 So am I a bad Mom? This week was just off. Every night starting Sunday night we went to bed no earlier then 10:30pm. Ok, now my kids go to be by 8:30 maybe 9:00 if I read or we are running late at night. So going to bed 2 hours after bedtime was not
Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 8 Update
By KristinN, on October 28th, 2011 OMGosh, we forgot to play Jeopardy this week. Our week started out pretty slow. This week with HOD I felt was a little slower and not quite as much to do as normal, but let me make darn sure you realize that this is NOT a complaint. It was actually nice, since towards the end
Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger, Week 7 Update
By KristinN, on October 21st, 2011 We have a very unusual schedule. We typically do school for 5 weeks and then take a week off of course during the holiday season it gets a bit tricky. Well, for those of you who follow my blog closely, you probably noticed that I did not have a week 6 update last week. Yup,
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By KristinN, on October 8th, 2011 Ok, I realized I need to purchase a thesaurus for the phrase" We had a great week" I keep saying that each week and I am sure my readers are getting tired of that same line. Anyway, I have realized that the Early American History that I learned as a child was very watered down as
Continue reading Heart of Dakota: Bigger Week 5 update
By KristinN, on September 29th, 2011 Ok, so this week was not as exciting and good as last week, BUT, it had nothing to do with our curriculum. We were just having an off week. Everyday seemed to start later then we wanted. I was having a hard time sleeping at night all week, I could not pull my behind out
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By KristinN, on September 26th, 2011 I had several people write to me saying they live in an area where they are not even close to a beach and they are also are using the Heart of Dakota Bigger Hearts. So I had put some great links to some videos in one of the comments section, but I figured there were
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By KristinN, on September 23rd, 2011 Well, this week was pretty good. Our hick up was Math for my son. You see my son hates math. Probably somehow my fault in the earlier years, but none the less, he hates it and therefore is about 6 months behind his "grade" or "age".
(Just FYI, I figured out how to do a
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By KristinN, on September 16th, 2011 As suspected, we had another wonderful week. Currently we are learning about things on the sea shores and I finally thought to myself on Monday after school. "Self,' I said, "You live in Sunny Southern California, why the heck are you sitting in the house to learn about the sea shore. Take the book, a
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By KristinN, on September 9th, 2011 This year I am trying a whole new curriculum for History, Geography, Timeline, Notebooking, Poetry, Bible and Science etc. Heart of Dakota. A friend showed me this curriculum at the beginning of last year and after a ton of research and the fact I LOVE the Charlotte Mason approach, I fell in love
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By KristinN, on July 29th, 2011 Well it is that time of year once more. Are you all diving into purchasing your new school year curriculum and supplies? Yea, I got mine purchased about a month ago. Well at least the major part of it. Just picking up little supplies here and there. New erasers, you know the fun ones, paper
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