Category: homeschool
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Middle and High School Homeschool Days
I’ve missed a few weeks of homeschool updates because we’ve had so much going on with getting ready for overnight visits with our newest kids! No, it’s still not definite, but we’re moving right along and praying for the Lord’s will. We’ve spent this week putting together a bunk bed in Kathryn’s room, cleaning out…
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Flexible Schedules and Good Weeks
This was a good week. Sure, there were some not-great moments, but I like to remind myself that even in those frustrating moments, this home educating lifestyle is a huge blessing. This week we had laughter and silliness; sweet moments like when Lindsey gave me a bouquet of flowers just because she wanted me to…
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Dave Ramsey Personal Finance Review
Dave Ramsey’s Foundations in Personal Finance for teens is the homeschool course Lindsey loves to hate. Or more accurately, it seems to be the course she hates to love. About the Foundations in Personal Finance program: This course includes 14+ hours of instructional video on DVD, plus one student workbook. If you have more than…
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Choi Kwang Do and other homeschool fun!
This has been a week full of LIFE! Plenty of learning, to be sure, but a lot outside the boundaries of traditional subjects. Biggest example: we had a “staffing” about two children for another possible foster-adoption! {See Monday’s post to catch up!} Enrichment classes: The girls started back to enrichment classes this week. They’re both…
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Homeschool Astronomy Resources
Kathryn is my young astronomer, and one of her requests this school year was to learn more about the subject! Astronomy is a very unschoolish subject in our homeschool, mostly because she is interest-led enough to do it on her own. (And because she’s already learned WAY more than I know on the subject!) So,…