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Earth Day is celebrated on Tuesday, April 22 this month, but you do not need to wait until that day arrives to do something to promote good stewardship toward the world that has been gifted to us by God. Earth Day was founded and created in 1969 by John McConnell (newspaper publisher and community activist)…
I fell in love with using magnetic pom poms in school when my youngest was three. If you search anywhere online, then you are bound to find them being used in some manner as math manipulatives or just fun play tools for young children. As my youngest became older, a whopping seven years old, the…
Finding time to balance living healthy and being a homeschooling mom is difficult. It can especially be difficult to find the time (and energy) to exercise while juggling grading papers, cooking meals, and doing housework. Luckily, BalleNess makes it easy by providing online exercise instruction and dance classes. Her classes provide the experience of a…
Two of our team members were recently given the Writing & Rhetoric Book 1 and Book 2 by Classical Academic Press to use in their own homeschools and to review for you! This writing program is different than others in that, instead of simply providing a topic and having the student write on it (which is…
Get your children up to speed with current news events using News-O-Matic. Read the reviews (below) from two different families, and then enter the contest for a chance to win one of three 1-year subscriptions to News-O-Matic! Jennifer says: The world is going on around us, and I want my children to have a way…
Service projects are a way to help others during the holiday season and beyond! They also teach our children to love and serve others instead of thinking of themselves. I have always wanted to be a better example to my children as a servant to others, but in the recent years, I have allowed so…
Service projects are a way to help others during the holiday season and beyond! They also teach our children to love and serve others instead of thinking of themselves. I have always wanted to be a better example to my children as a servant to others, but in the recent years, I have allowed so…
I totally love homeschooling and am sure that you do too. But if you homeschool, then you are bound to have one of those days. You know, one of those days. You may have one of those days when you just do not feel like getting out of bed at 6 a.m. (or earlier) to…
We started our new school year on Wednesday, July 24. To some that may seem a little bit early, but we were actually supposed to return to school on Monday, July 8. At this same time last year, we were entering our sixth year of homeschool. The only thing was that school had not really…
My son River is a self-professed tech-geek (Is that one in the same?), which I think is totally cool. Because of his interests, that means we get to do a lot of really fun (and sometimes not so fun) experiments. Tech Light Lab by Edmund Scientifics is one of those really cool and fun experiments that we…
This school year has been one of our bumpiest. We started out running and had many days/weeks even months of schooling behind us, and then life just got in the way. Even though life happens every day, the circumstances that we experienced were truly unexpected. Because of that, I lost steam and it seemed easier…
I already knew I had a winner when I presented the Sonrise Stable series books Clothed With Thunder (book three) and Tender Mercies (book four) to Lily because there were horses involved. I really got a kick when Lily came running to me, after she had started reading the books, excitedly telling me that the children…
