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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Super Diagrammer!
We missed almost two weeks of schoolwork in February due to the funeral in Memphis and then Pied Piper Production Week the following week, so we’ve been doing our best to catch up to my lesson plans....
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How to Build a Fancy Tape Dispenser
Yesterday morning as Casey and I were looking through possible belt loop and academic pins he could earn for Cub Scouts, we noticed that there is a Science belt loop and pin. As we reviewed the list,...
View ArticleThe Hope Springs Eternal Schoolhouse’s Year-End Homeschooling Evaluation
Well, we’ve come to the end of our first year of homeschooling and Casey and I have learned a few things. In addition to diagramming sentences and picking up a little Latin vocabulary, Casey has...
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Mace’s First Week
We started our new homeschool year last Monday. So that means Mace started kindergarten and Casey started 4th grade. Casey, now the homeschool veteran, plowed right in and tackled the week with a...
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Why Aren’t Your Kids In School?
“I asked my mom and she said you can’t come home with us.But I’ll be back to play again next week.” Now that Mace is homeschooling with us, the schedule is ours to make. As I’ve discussed in prior...
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The Meh Factor
After Christmas, I decided to change up our homeschool curriculum just a smidge. We’ve been using Story of the World for history for Casey (who is 10) for the last two years, but we are in year four...
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More Crepes, S’il Vous Plait!
Eensy teensy weensy confession: we went to Epcot week before last and I didn’t tell you because I had written such a Disney-hater blog post about Magic Kingdom a few weeks prior that I just couldn’t...
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Sonlight Boxes
We started school about three weeks ago and I’m happy to report that aside from the usual awkward learning positions of my 1st grader, things are going just fine. I was very patient with this nonsense...
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Danger: The New Tool for Your Home Educating Toolbox
I am not a professional educator, therapist, or psychologist, but I have diagnosed Mace all by myself as a Reluctant Learner. If this condition actually exists, it is characterized by: 1) An inability...
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What We Did On Our Unscheduled Vacation
Last week we took a Sabbath Week. You may remember that last year that we arranged our school year around six week increments, taking the seventh week off as a “Sabbath Week,” in which we were...
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