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2009 Homeschool Blog Awards

The Homeschool Post is hosting the 5th Annual Homeschool Blog Awards! THE BUTTON: Feel free to snag it from this post. We’ll be updating the button as the awards take place. Right now it says ‘coming soon’, but after the awards start, we’ll change it up a bit! THE SCHEDULE: OCT 17 – Prize page up OCT 19 –...

Heartstrings and Homeschooling

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The Garden of the Heart Proverbs 4:23 ~ Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. The heart is the center of homeschooling – and homeschooling is a “choice of the heart”. Chances are if you are reading this, your heart is already tied in some way with Jesus and your kids. You probably already...

Autumn Tree Craft

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With only four days of school left before Christmas break in our house (yipee!), I know that this particular post is a bit “late”. However, in an effort to finish up my last formal week of “fall” here on Sprittibee, I’m trying to get all of the season neatly filed away. I am planning to change the...

Russian Matryoshka Doll Ornaments

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We studied Russia in our co-op in 2004 as part of our ‘home’-school curriculum. I happened to be the mom that taught that class, so I got to put my craftiness in to play when we did these lovely Matryoshka ornaments. A Matryoshka doll is the obvious choice for a Russian craft. I chose ornaments because it would...

Giveaway: Alone With God – Bible Study

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**The winner is Renae at Keeper at Home Bible Study is a big part of our life at the Bee Hive. We do Bible study at our small groups Sunday night, Bible Lessons in our classes at church Sunday morning and Wednesday nights, and we read the Bible most mornings as a part of our school. We have always used a devotional, too. In...

Why Homeschool? Part 2

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PART 1 RECAP Last month I talked about how homeschooling moms don’t have to feel like lonely islands out at sea. There are over 2 million1 homeschooling families in the United States and most homeschool mothers are more than willing to share their encouragement and how to tips. I also discussed the excuses we make for not...

Why Homeschool?

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GOING IT ALONE? It is a common misunderstanding that homeschoolers are isolated at their kitchen tables. Somehow the word on the street seems to be tainted with completely false ideas about what a homeschool day might look like, and the general public is left to think that homeschoolers are scattered and alone in their...

Field Trip Friday

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Choo Choo! Today we steam down memory lane with the Bee bunch! Watch out for the steam and stay off the tracks! Be sure to wave at the conductor and ask him to toot the train’s horn! * * * * * * * Steam Train Field Trip Originally posted May 13, 2006 While we were in Houston one weekend, there was a traveling steam train...

When Winning ‘Does Not Compute’

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When Winning ‘Does Not Compute’ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William M. Thackeray It is many a young boy’s dream to play with robots and build things. It has been one of my son’s dreams since he was five years old. The very first time I heard about robotics from...

Field Trip Tuesday: Houston Ship Channel Tour

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Time to set sail on the spring winds! Today we remember a ship-channel tour my children took many years ago that was phenomenal! Be sure to bring a jacket – it might get chilly in the breeze as you tootle along in the wake of the big liners…. * * * * * * * Sprittibee’s Houston Ship Channel Tour Originally...