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As a homeschooling mom, I have some advantages that many other moms don’t have. For example, for the past few weeks, moms have been getting up early to get their kids ready for school and on the bus. I, however, have been enjoying a few hours to myself in the mornings, getting things done while my kids sleep in. After all, since we’re homeschooling, I get to decide when we start the school year. Because we didn’t finish last year’s homeschooling session until mid-July, I wanted to make sure tha

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Homeschooling: Finally Going to Start the New Year!

Home schooling the cast of Snoopy the musical: newyorker.com by Rebecca Mead, Illustration: Tom Bachtell Central to the actor’s craft is the ability to imagine oneself into the unimaginable; consider Meryl Streep choosing between her children in “Sophie’s Choice,” or Marlon Bran do roaring in the jungle in “Apocalypse Now.” For Mary Albert, who recently appeared in a musical production of “Snoopy!!!” as Sally Brown, Charlie Brown’s little sister, the challenge lay in embodying her characte

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Made Me Smile: Homeschooling in This Week’s New Yorker

Today we took a trip to the Bronx to visit Poe’s Cottage with some homeschooling friends. This was Edgar Allen Poe’s last residence (after that he traveled around until his death). It is a very small house with low ceilings (to conserve heat). Here was where he wrote Annabelle Lee, The Bells, The Cask of Amontillado, Landor’s Cottage, and the Domain of Arnheim. He live there with his wife, Virginia, his mother-in-law, and Mary Louisa Shoe(?), who was Virginia’s nurse when Virginia was dying of t

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Poe’s Cottage Tour

The week has just started today and it’s already jam-packed. I think I’m even already worn out from it! LOL! Kristin has a friend sleeping over tonight. That is a major perk of homeschooling. We don’t have to wait til the weekends to have friends over! I’m even allowing them to stay up late and watch High School Musical 3, which I also love by the way! Tomorrow we will do some schoolwork, deliver Kristin’s little friend back home and then head to the church, the bank, lunch, and a kitty pick-up

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A Busy Week Ahead

Our 2008-2009 homeschool year is over at the end of April. Whew! 1st grade & 3rd grade; they both did so well! We’ve had so much fun this year. It’s hard to believe that it’s over already! I started a few weeks ago & I’ve finally finished with our 2008-2009 homeschool year book! It’s AWESOME ! I can’t wait to see it printed & bound! Here’s a small preview. We also have an autographs page for the boys’ friend’s to sign. Want to create your own

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A Year in Review

www.ChristianPost.com picked up my remarks made at Conspire ‘09 and the post below about Children’s Ministry Inoculates Christians to the Great Commission. Some of the comments made in response to the article made me realize that I need to be more clear. Here we go: Home Schooling I wasn’t think of home schooling as a movement or particular home schoolers I know when I wrote that. I wasn’t really thinking about home schooling at all. Home schooling as a viable option for some parents. Home

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More on Raising Kids Behind Fortress Evangelicalism

David d’Escoto has hit the nail on the head with this e-book! As I was reading through 10 Big Reasons Not to Send Christian Kids to Public Schools Today , I kept saying “Amen! Amen!” and nodding my head. This is one of the best resources you can use (1) when choosing to homeschool your own children and (2) to show those opposed to your decision to homeschool. To read for yourself, visit The Old Schoolhouse to purchase your own copy of this Wee-book & check out the others while you’r

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Review: TOS 10 Big Reasons Not to Send Christian Kids to Public Schools Today

Last week, I wrote about a couple of the unexpected benefits of being part of a homeschool cooperative (co-op) . It’s obvious that co-op must be on my mind, because I decided that I wanted to touch on co-ops in my post again this week. This is the time of year that many co-ops are starting to piece together who will be teaching next school year and what they are planning to teach. Sometimes, I think that there are people who are willing to teach some fabulous classes — they just can’t think

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Ideas for Your Next Co-op Class

Whenever you feel overwhelmed, it’s good to be able to call for help. I am very fortunate to live close to my parents. I’m doubly fortunate that I have a good relationship with them. My parents each have something to contribute to our homeschooling. Grandma has been there for numerous math crises and museum trips. Buelo offers his talents in playing the cuatro, a ten-stringed instrument, and Spanish language and culture. And if I ever need a good story about growing up in poverty in Puerto Rico,

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Home Spun reprint #80

Earlier this week, I posted about Homeschool Connections’ webinars. Yesterday, we got even better news about these “in your pajamas” conferences … from now on they’ll be FREE! Yep, FREE as in no fee, no cost, no money … just great information and wonderful speakers. And to ice the cake a bit more …

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Conferences: now this is even better!