Category: homeschool
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Homeschool Week: Farmer’s Market, Cute Dog, a Weird Car, and MORE Summer
We’re past Labor Day now… which means summer is unofficially gone, but it’s still feeling plenty hot around here, and I am soooo ready for fall weather. History, Math, Literature Kathryn is enjoying history (America the Beautiful). In fact, she asks to do things like vocabulary words or writing assignments so she’ll have papers to…
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Our crazy homeschool (& a shiny new friend)
I’m trying to organize my weekly reports a little better, with subheadings and stuff. Hope it makes for easier reading! 😉 The basics After much thought and prayer, I decided to drop geometry for Lindsey. She doesn’t need it now, nor will she likely need it for whatever career path she may take. If she…
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Reading Horizons Curriculum Review
We were given the opportunity to use and review Reading Horizons computer program. At first, I didn’t request to be one of the reviewers because we don’t have any struggling readers in our home, but the good folks at RH wanted reviews from all different reading levels, so we took the opportunity to see how…
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Homeschool: Getting back in the groove!
We’ve been easing back into homeschooling. We didn’t take off entirely over the summer, but things were much lighter and less structured, so we’re trying to get back into the swing of things now. I can’t say I’m enthralled with our U.S. history curriculum just yet, but I think it’ll work just fine with less…
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A Tour of our Homeschool Room
Welcome to our school room, complete with a cute dog to greet you! (Lacy the WonderDog: star student) Bookshelves are my friends. And I’m fickle about tables. I always tweak our schoolroom from year to year, but there are no huge changes this time around. The bookshelves have been rearranged to accommodate this year’s books…