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Reflections

I have always loved teaching Science, Math, Art and English to my children. I have always approached these subjects with great excitement and enthusiasm with each new topic. But there’s one subject which I had absolutely loathed. Well, maybe that’s a strong word. I had rather disliked… and that’s...

The Forgotten Daughter Book

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Action, adventure, hardship, romance, forgiveness, triumph, politics, scandal..you would think those words were describing the latest cinema feature but those words describe the wonderful book, The Forgotten Daughter. The Forgotten Daughter is a Newberry Honored book (six grade level) written by Caroline Dale Snedeker in 1933....

A Tour of Cheapville

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It never hurts to save a dollar and when you have a family of many, every cent saved is for the better. I have to admit it, I’m cheap. Yes, there’s no shame in the name for me. I love shopping at the dollar stores and yes, Wal-mart is my mall. We call it Le Wal de Mart in my parts. I love saving my aluminum foil to...

A Charlotte Mason Transition

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I can remember when we began our homeschool journey and how I researched the many different curricula to utilize in our homeschool. As a member of the public school alumni, I had the mind set of “traditional is best” and found myself imitating school at home right away. I thought that a traditional school setting or...

Book Review: Mimi the Selfish Kitten

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All of my children give oral narrations on their literature and my youngest, Hip Rider, has been due to give her book review for a while now so in her 17 month old vocabulary regarding her opinion of this book when Mommy reads it…..is just “Mimi!“. Yes, “Mimi” is what she yells with excitement...

Biology 101 (Giveaway included!!)

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Did you know that Beatrix Potter was a scientific illustrator or that Solomon was a biologist who gave lectures on plant and animal life? Did you know that Carolus Linnaeus developed taxonomy, the classification system that we use in order to divide our animal and plant life today? I didn’t know this information until...

It’s Ok To Laugh

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I was hanging out with some “serious” moms the other day who were really heavy into a conversation about homeschooling and I watched our children play and some children appeared as if they were starving from boredom. This conversation was oh, so deep. Ha! Initially, I thought that I had lighten things up a bit with...

Microscope Match Up

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Isn’t it wonderful how microscopes can introduce another part of the wonderful world of science to us? We can peak at the finest details of God’s magnificent creations. We have had the pleasure of ordering microscopes for our family and our children were so excited to use them. But how do you choose a microscope...

Commitment

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Believe it or not, I didn’t have a topic for this week’s HOTM post. I have battled with writer’s block for a few weeks now so I had asked the Lord to give me something to share with you but no answer. At least, that’s what I had thought. I have been meditating on some things in which the Lord has been...

TV Time Management

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It’s been a renewing battle for us lately. Last year, our principal had discontinued the satellite TV service in order for our children to dedicate more time to studies and reading. Each week, we had WW III in my home as my gang and I would battle with this issue along with video game time. Our rule is no TV on weekdays....