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Discovering Our Amazing God: Deeper Roots Publications

  There are many Bible curriculum out there and I admit we have tried different ones in the past.  I am always on the lookout for a Bible curriculum that goes over things a little more in depth than a basic understanding and one that doesn’t just go over the main stories and concepts that [...]

Flea Circus: R & R Games

  “Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of all Ages, come one come all to play flea circus, a game for ages 6 and up.  We can handle 2 to 6 players and the more the merrier! “   Come see the amazing fleas perform death defying feats!  Come see the flea acrobats and clowns!” Our family has [...]

Civilize This!: Griddly Games

As a homeschool Mom I love games where we can combine fun and learning.  Griddly Games provided me a copy of the Game, Civilize This!  as a member of the TOS Homeschool Crew for review.   I have to say I was excited about receiving this game because history is one of those subjects that [...]

Ohio Homeschool notification and assessments

Ok. I courteously provide all the required info for my notification each year. I write a cover letter to be professional and let them know the contents of my enclose documents. This year instead of sending in a form that basically just quotes the regs for assessment option #1 and makes a blank form where [...]

Free copy of new Summer digital edition of The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine

  Take a look at the brand new Summer digital edition of The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine. TOS is offering this digital issue of the magazine totally free with no strings attached. Enjoy this free gift from TOS—no registration or email address required to view the magazine! Take a peek here. Then share the link with [...]

Homeschooling and Vacations

What is neat about homeschooling is that you can go on vacation whenever your family wants to and you can still homeschool while you are there. There is no having to “make up” stuff once you get back or missing out on things while you are gone. Also if you choose to just suspend school [...]

Preparing for the school year

I am starting out planning for our school stuff a little later this year. I have finally prepared my notification papers and now need to send them off. I use a combination of things to organize my year. I have a TOS Homeschool planner, different books and pages I use, and the Homeschool Tracker. Right [...]

Ohio Homeschooling regs and notification thoughts

This is the time of the year when people start wondering what to send in for their notifications. I happen to cringe sometimes because there are a lot of people out there that are trying to tell people to send either too much or too little info for their notifications. Both are very dangerous to [...]

Homeschool Convention

Thursday March 31st through Saturday April 2nd I had the pleasure of working with some very special people at the Midwest Homeschool Convention. Despite the controversy surrounding this convention things seemed to go well. Many people were showing their support for Ken Ham by wearing buttons or t-shirts with “I Stand With Ken Ham” on [...]

Emotional earthquake: thoughts on recent homeschool convention vs Ken Ham/AIG situation

Recently I was astonished to find out that Ken Ham and AIG were dis-invited to speak and be in the vendor hall for Midwest Homeschool Convention based on what Mr. Ham said concerning another speaker/vendor’s homeschool curriculum. I will not go into it much here as to whether or not there was any blame on [...]