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What is Unschooling and Why are We Trying It?
The more I read and discuss the topic of unschooling the more I realize a lot of people seem to have different definitions of it. Also the more I have talked to unschoolers and the longer I have evaluated for … Continue reading
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Tagged curriculum, education, homeschool, John Holt, learning, math, unschooling, writing
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Simplifying the Curriculum
Teaching From Rest As some of you know, I’ve been rereading Teaching From Rest: A homeschooler’s Guide to Unshakeable Peace and holding the book study all over again on Facebook. We’re currently in part two of the book and once … Continue reading
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Tagged curriculum, Sarah Mackenzie, simplify, Teaching From Rest
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Homeschool With Financial Peace
Have you heard of Dave Ramsey? Did you know he has an online course and one on DVDs that is made for students?? Keep reading! As a homeschool evaluator, I often have parents ask me about a class for teaching … Continue reading
The Many Hats of an Orthodox Homeschool 2015
I wear a lot of hats with homeschool these days as the homeschool mom of a college student (she still asks my opinion on some things), a high school student and a kindergartener! And there’s so much going on in … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambleside, Charlotte Mason, curriculum, eclectic homeschool, High School, living books
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Teaching Kids about REAL FOOD
This post is being written impulsively and I already know I’ll be posting more in the future as this will be rather incomplete but, as I sat down to write about one topic, this topic just leaped out of nowhere … Continue reading
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Tagged curriculum, education, food renegade, homeschool, Michael Pollan, real food, resources
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Choosing Preschool Curriculum (or not)
I always start surfing the web and old catalogs in January or February to start getting a feel for what curriculum I may want to use the following school year. This is the first year I’ve ever had to look … Continue reading
Writing Should Be Fun
Too many times as an evaluator for homeschool students, I see children who HATE to write. I can’t imagine hating to write but I think I understand where it comes from. Too many times educators and parents put sooo much … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, curriculum, evaluator, grammar, home school, homeschool, paragraph, punctuation, SAT, spelling, Stop 'n Shop, write, writing
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Why We Homeschool
Our story is a personal story. Why anyone chooses to homeschool always is. There could be a single or mixture of reasons given: religion, health, curriculum choice, academic failure in the public schools, and school violence just to name a … Continue reading
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Tagged academic failure, artificial additives, books, bus, church, conventional medicine, credits, curriculum, faith, family, feast days, flexible schedules, God, God forgives, health, health class, High School, homeschool, MSG, neurotoxins, online classes, Orthodox Christian Church, Pascha, personal, piano lessons, preservatives, public schools, quality time, religion, SAD, school violence, Standard American Diet, teaching
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Homeschooling and English
There’s lots of things swirling around in my mind again today but for this post I’m going to briefly talk about one. English. English is a very general term. It covers a variety of subtopics: Literature (my favorite), Writing (my … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, American Literature, anthology, books, classics, curriculum, High School, Historical Fiction, homeschool
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The Many Hats of an Orthodox Mom 