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5 Days of Tips for Homeschooling Parents
Visit these homeschooling mama’s and see what sort of tips they have to offer today! Jeniffer @ Thou Shall Not Whine Jennifer @ A Peace of Mind Jennifer @ Faithful Homestead Joelle @ homeschooling for His Glory Joesette @ Learning Curve Kari @ Random Acts of Boyhood Katie @ Katie’s Daily Life Kemi @ Homemaking Organized Kim @ Homestead Acres Kylie @ Our Worldwide Classroom
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Review: Logic of English Foundations B
I had the pleasure of listening to Denise Eide speak at a homeschool convention last year, and I was so impressed by her knowledge and experience in teaching kids to read, and to read well. Literacy is a HUGE issue in our nation, despite the enormous amount of funding dedicated to helping kids learn to read. I purchased Logic of English‘s Foundation Level A materials last year for Sweetheart, and am thrilled that they sent me Foundations Level B to review! Logic of English was super generous and sent us the Foundations B Teachers Manual, Manuscript workbook, and Readers, as well as their Phonogram & Spelling Rule Quick Reference Guide,…
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5 Days of Tips for Homeschool Parents
Check back tomorrow for a new tip from me! In the meantime, hop over to see what my fellow bloggers are up to! Annette @ A Net In Time Brandy @ Kingdom Academy Homeschool Brenda @ Counting Pinecones Carol @ Home Sweet Life Cassandra @ A Glimpse of Normal Chareen @ Every Bed of Roses Cristi @ Through the Calm and Through the Storm Crystal @ Crystal Starr DaLynn @ Biblical Womanhood Danielle @ Sensible Whimsy
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5 Days of Tips for Homeschool Parents: Simplify the Little Years
You’re in for a treat this week! I’m teaming up with 50 other homeschool bloggers to bring you 5 Days of Tips for Homeschool Parents, all designed to make your life easier. You can find the links to more of the bloggers at the end of this post – enjoy our blog hop! As a first time parent, and first time homeschooling mom, I was ready to dive into school with intensity. The clock was ticking, after all, and I needed to get my son ready to take on the world. I started when he was 4, but only because we didn’t settle on homeschooling until then. …
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Review: FishFlix.com Owlegories DVD
I love the opportunity to receive new Christian movies for the kids to try. Our van has a DVD player, and we love to take family road trips, especially to state parks. We also live about 30 minutes from the city, and so we are in the car a lot! FishFlix.com kindly sent us one of their new releases to review, entitled Owlegories: The Ant, The Fruit, The Butterfly, so we popped it in on a recent road trip to try it out. My kids LOVED this DVD! I wondered if it might be a bit young for Super D (3rd grade), but he is the most…
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Review: The Resurrection Bible Study
I’ve posted before about how much we love the Grapevine Studies, so I was excited to have another opportunity to try another one of their studies. They kindly sent us their study called The Resurrection in their Beginner Student and Beginner Traceable, Student and Student Traceable levels. Each study leads the kids to draw stick figures of the Bible characters and events, as they listen to me read to them from the Bible. The Scripture references are generally short – we usually read only a couple verses for each box, so the kids stay engaged and focused. By the time they’re finished drawing, I’m ready to move on…
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Review: Here To Help Learning
Teaching our children to write can be as daunting a process as teaching them to read. I remember well how intimidated I was with teaching Super D to read. I had no idea how to start and was scared I’d fail miserably! Thankfully, he is now an avid reader and surprises me regularly with the words he can read AND spell! Our next stage of language development is learning to write, and Here to Help Learning is, well, here to help! They graciously gave us a year’s access to their online program and we started with Flight 1 Paragraph Writing. Here to Help Learning offers a…
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Giveaway! Win an autographed copy of Selah’s Sweet Dream!
Good literature for kids can be hard to find!! I’m often comparing notes with other moms about what their kids are reading and enjoying. I’m excited to share Selah’s Sweet Dream with you, because it checks a lot of my boxes as a quality book! I’m giving away two autographed paperback copies and 5 ebooks in honor of the sale, so make sure to enter below! Selah’s Sweet Dream is a horse story, through and through. Its heroine is a brave tween, who must overcome obstacle after obstacle in her pursuit of her dream to be an equestrian superstar. I was drawn into the story in the very beginning, and…
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Hidden Dangers of Minecraft
Like many of our kids, my oldest is CRAZY about Minecraft! He plays it every time I let him 🙂 and is always telling me stories about what he’s building. He eventually started learning about playing on other servers, and was particularly excited about one called LifeBoat that a neighbor boy showed him. I sat next to him one day while he played and I was HORRIFIED. Not at the game, although it wasn’t my favorite. But at the CHAT feed! It was full of profanity and sexual talk! Thankfully, Super D is still young enough that he doesn’t pay any of that a second glance, but we were getting…
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HUGE Sale at Draw Through the Bible Grapevine Studies!
We love doing Bible studies with our kids, to help them understand the Word and hide it in their hearts. One of my favorite vendors, Grapevine Studies, is having a HUGE sale on their books and ebooks, through Friday, Feb 5! We are currently working through the New Testament Overview, Level 1 with Super D and Sweetheart. They are both using the Traceable versions quite happily. During this sale, I also purchased the Old Testament Overview, Parts 1-4, Level 1 traceable ebooks for us to complete next! The kids love these Bible studies and beg to do it every day! You can get 40% off through Friday,…
