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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 [...]

Homeschool styles.. and homeschool in general

When I started thinking about homeschooling about 13 years ago, I never really thought much about homeschooling methods or styles. Over the many years, different ones emerged. I never really thought about them having a specific name only knew about how different families homeschooled by either buying their curriculum or making it up on their [...]

The Future Galileos program at Cincinnati Observatory

I wanted to post the email I received from Dean Regas from the Cincinnati Observatory as it contains all the information that tells about the Future Galileos program which entails getting a free telescope to share astronomy with your community. This would be a great program to get involved in as a homeschoooler. ——————-Email follows:—————————————————————– [...]

Free stuff- homeschool and otherwise

Ok. In recent years, free stuff has become very important to our family. One such area that I discovered was Amazon.com’s kindle store. There you can download a free pc app to read kindle books and can select from a bunch of free e-books to download to it. Yes there are reading books as well [...]

Break or no break?

As homeschoolers I often debate on whether to take a full break from doing “school” or to do a little bit. Most of the time I think all the stuff that we end up doing forces us to take time off if for no other reason than we rarely have any time leftover. We finally [...]

Blog Cruise: Holiday Traditions

Well we have different traditions for the various holidays.  One  food tradition we have is that Easter we always need to have ham and deviled eggs for the meal that day.   We also still hide an Easter basket for both girls and they find it that morning before we go to church.   Our Thanksgiving [...]

Start of school year

We unofficially started our school year last week by working on our math workbooks. This week we added a few more subjects- Science and Spanish so far. I realized that the one educational website I subscribed to was already expired before I had a chance to retrieve some things for this year. Ugh. I had [...]