Homeschool Online Blog

Let me start this post off by stating that I know many of you homeschool year round and do not take a break during the summer. I have done this for most of our school years as well. However, this year I am weary, tired, burned out and ready to renew my heart and mind. I have decided that I am going to have my children do one subject from their math and language arts each

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Last Saturday we went to visit our favorite Pottery Ladies. I have been buying pottery from them a piece or two at a time for the last year. The ladies were showing me some tiny little bowls that i wanted to buy. They had three of them and they cost $5.00 each. My son piped up and said, "That's 15.00." One of ladies looked at him with a surprised

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How in the World are YOU?
by Jamie

Most people would answer, "Well, under the circumstances - I'm OK." Isn't that just the typical response? One of my favorite people always responds to that with a quick... "Well, what in the world are you doing under there?" How true is that... especially during this stressfull time of year? - - I have to admit that I am feeling quite "under the circumstances" myself ...

We have now officially completed our school year. This is one of my favorite times. First of all, it feels good to complete what we’ve worked hard on for several months. Secondly, I enjoy doing some organizing/decluttering as we go through our notebooks, back packs, book shelves and begin to put away everything. It’s time to review. What worked? What didn’t? Why?

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Homophones, Synonyms, Antonyms, Oh what to do. Have you ever thought much about all these words and what they mean? My son has been studying them recently in his Language Arts Program. To me they are so confusing. I can never remember which is which. So I thought maybe a short tutorial would be in order.

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