From the category archives:
Haven is playing soccer this season. On Saturday his coach asked him the name of his school (He never talks to “others” until he sees fit to do so). Haven’s response was heard clearly across the field by his very alert aka nosey sister Haley, “I’m homeschooled.” Haley quickly announced it to us and everyone [...]
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Have you ever stopped and thought about 5 things that you must teach your children before they leave home? I say “must” because these 5 things will probably be so important to you that you couldn’t imagine NOT teaching them to your children. One of the beauties of homeschooling is being able to look back [...]
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I loooooove to bake. Not just the occasional batch of cookies. I’m talking every day- cookies, cakes, brownies, anything! I say every day but that is really my wishful thinking. My husband has limited me (meanie). He would be happy, as would his waistline, if I baked only once a week. I can usually squeeze [...]
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Homeschooling isn’t just sitting down with your children and teaching them math, reading, science and history. As a matter of fact, in our schedule there is no math. Nature is our science. And reading and history are combined in a fun way. Homeschooling means you, the parent, want to be the one to teach your [...]
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Since June our family has been learning how to read Greek (Biblical Greek). It has been such an amazing experience! It’s something we ALL do together. Yes, even the 2 year old! We do everything else together so why not Greek? When we started out we simply made notecards and memorized the symbols. After we [...]
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2 Heads? For sure! I mean I must if I homeschool, right? That’s certainly what many people think when you tell them you homeschool. It’s interesting that the fact that we homeschool always comes up after they’ve raved incessantly over the local schools. Ever noticed that everyone who sends their kids to public school resides [...]
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(originally posted June 21, 2009 at Do I Need A Bigger Plate?) Over the past few weeks, life in the Beck house has changed dramatically. I am so humbled by God’s ever present hand in my life. For years we have known of the book Teaching the Trivium by Bluedorn. We knew of this book [...]
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