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More Readeez please!
By Kristen Chase. Most of my homeschooling challenges don’t necessarily arise with the child I’m formally homeschooling, but rather, my younger three kids who need to be occupied while I’m teaching...
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Gathering inspiration through music.
By Emelie Sanders. This morning, my mother took her work into the living room, declaring today would be an official “couch day.” For her work she either designs websites or writes. On her design days,...
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Integrating Music into the Homeschool Environment
By Heather Sanders. In our home we have two guitar players, Jeff and Meredith. Though we have asked Meredith repeatedly, she has not been interested in actual guitar lessons (except a few starter...
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Musician Makenzie Caine’s Interview &“Take This Town” Giveaway (Winners...
By Heather Sanders. The three winners of Makenzie Caine’s “Take This Town” CD are: #235 Liz: “My Dad played opera and bluegrass records on our record player on the weekends.” #91 Sami: “First exposure...
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This may or may not be our 2013-2014 academic plan.
By Heather Sanders This week I received an email from Pioneer Woman reader, Pat in Indy, asking me whether I managed to incorporate genealogy into our 2012-2013 curriculum, and any updates for how I...
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Piano Lessons – The Ongoing Debate
By Heather Sanders The other night Jeff and I turned in before the kids. Meredith was still in the living room, practicing piano before the next day’s session with her instructor. I still marvel at...
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The Amazing Race from the Eyes of an Educator
By Heather Sanders This time last year I wrote about our Tuesday evening TV night wherein we watch DVR’ed episodes of three of our favorite shows, The Amazing Race, White Collar and Shark Tank. I went...
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Book Review: Reading Rhyming, and ‘Rithmetic
By Heather Sanders A few weeks ago I was gifted a copy of Dave Crawley’s Reading, Rhyming, and ‘Rithmetic, a book of twenty school-related poems. It sat next to my computer for less than 24 hours...
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It’s Homeschool Conference Time!
By Heather Sanders This morning mine and Jeff’s alarms collectively sounded no less than 10 times, and no, that is not a hyperbolic statement. I would make excuses for being a sluggard, but there are...
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Community Question: International Homeschool Methods?
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Cheap Treats: “States” and “Presidents” Flash Cards
By Heather Sanders In the past two years, as part of Kenny’s American History homeschool cooperative courses, he studied both the states of the union and the U.S. presidents. During the first year,...
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I have the urge to purge.
By Heather Sanders My friend Cindy taught first grade for six years. In that time, she accumulated and created an incredible amount of curricula, activity packets, manipulatives, puzzles, games,...
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Community Question: First Grade Math Recommendations
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Homeschooling Friends
By Heather Sanders Do you see the inverted question mark on Kenny’s forehead? I could say it is because he was leading his friends in a Spanish lesson on the fine art of punctuation using the tools at...
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Twenty Interesting Facts About…Rosie the Riveter
By Heather Sanders Meredith chose to dress as “Rosie the Riveter” for our church’s Wednesday evening “Blast from the Past” theme. It was so much fun pulling together all the different pieces of her...
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Community Question: 3rd & 6th Grade History and Science
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The Act of Being Intentional
By Heather Sanders With our home on the market and a move imminent, the kids and I have spent a few afternoons taking stock of each and every item that we own, determining what we want to keep, give...
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Community Question: Learning Disabilities Programs
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Sonlight’s (Elementary) Summer Readers Giveaway!
By Heather Sanders With all the back to school ad campaigns, sales, and preparation going on both online and off, it is hard to remember that IT IS STILL SUMMER. When I was a kid, I looked forward to...
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Archives Shmarchives
By Heather Sanders With our impending move, I chose to pursue the mindset of storing only those things that are necessary (tax records, curricula), seasonal (Christmas ornaments, coats), or...
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