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When your 4-year-old has a broken heart because both of his older brothers got new grammar books in the mail and there wasn’t one for him.Luckily the Rainbow Resource box came today so now he has “my very own books!”

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You know you’re a homeschooler…

Sacred Pathways explores the notion of different spiritual temperaments. It dovetails with an interest I’ve had lately as a homeschooler in learning styles and multiple intelligences. I have some hunches, but I’d like to find some guidance in determining my daughters’ learning styles before I choose resources for next year. The materials I’m using (all recommended in The Well-Trained Mind) are working okay. But I think there may be others that would work better. It’s a tricky subject, to me an

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How should we then learn?

Head on over to the latest Carnival of Homeschooling , where no bells ring and you don’t need a permission slip to visit the bathroom. Here are some of the posts that really piqued my interest: Teaching Stillness Ah, yes. Want to do something creative with your child’s artwork? Very cool. Meet Amazing Americans Well, on-line, anyway. Am I cheating my child out of an education in American history? She’s not. A fun way to learn history Around here, we look at old

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More From Those Wonderful Homeschooling Bloggers

Head on over to the latest Carnival of Homeschooling , where no bells ring and you don’t need a permission slip to visit the bathroom. Here are some of the posts that really piqued my interest: Teaching Stillness Ah, yes. Want to do something creative with your child’s artwork? Very cool. Meet Amazing Americans Well, on-line, anyway. Am I cheating my child out of an education in American history

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More From Those Wonderful Homeschoolers

Here are a few Georgia blogs I’ve added to the blogroll: Secret Agent Mama – per this mother’s tagline she “shoots from the hip” as she wears many different hats including coffee snob, photographer, home schooler, blogger, and lead foot taxi driver. One of her most recent postings deals with her lovely weekend among bloggers at the Blissdom Conference . Jewelz Sightings – Julie is a homeschooling mom of five and she writes her blog is part of her spiritual journey into the heart of

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A Few Newbies for the Blogroll

If only every kid had a chance to get this. Melissa says homeschooling is particularly appealing in New York City, with its competitive school admissions. “For most people with kids in school, there’s a sense of feeling trapped,” she explains. “You sort of get on the private school train…and once you’re there, you don’t feel like you have a lot of options. You pay a lot of money to be there, and you’re supposed to be really grateful that you’re there. So the perspective of ‘There is something

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Homeschooling is hot

Christian News Wire (HT: Hip and Thigh)

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New Hampshire politicians seek to place more hurdles in the way of homeschoolers

I’m a huge advocate for homeschooling and I found these excerpts from the Wikipedia article on the subject quite enlightening:Numerous studies have found that homeschooled students on average outperform their peers on standardized tests.[64][65] Home Schooling Achievement, a study conducted by National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), supported the academic integrity of homeschooling. Among the homeschooled students who took the tests, the average homeschooled student outperformed his

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[Photo by jonathansloan.]One of the best perks of homeschooling is that we can take our snow days when the rest of the world is back in school. Niner and Princess Kitten have the sledding hill to themselves. Meanwhile, I’m brewing up a batch of JD’s Winter Soup while I prepare for co-op classes tomorrow…

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Homeschooling Perks

January 28, 2009 · Filed under Life Expansions Tagged Homeschooling, Life Expansions Even though I’d never give my life for anything related to math, and even though we don’t call what we do in our house “homeschooling,” the Carnival of Homeschooling is a great place to read about living and learning. Here’s my list of posts from this week’s carnival that will make you think:The Great Industrialists: Heroes or Villains?Parents with PurposeHomeschooling Moms need to be educated too5 Thin

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Check Out the January 27, 2009 Carnival of Homeschooling