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Nick - Age 9, 4th Grade
  1. Ray's Primary Arithmetic
  2. McGuffey's Second Reader
  3. All About Spelling Level 3
  4. Copywork
  5. Prima Latina I (Latin)
  6. Typing Instructor for Kids
James - Age 6, Kindergarten
  1. Ray's New Primary Arithmetic
  2. McGuffey's Primer
  3. Peterson Directed Handwriting
  4. All About Spelling Level 1
  5. Rime to Read (Phonics Readers)
  6. Explode the Code 1 1/2 (phonics)
Together we do:
  1. Johannes Vermeer Picture Study
  2. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers by John Burroughs
  3. Indoor Science Experiments and Outdoor Nature Study
  4. Stories of the Civil War

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Playlist Problemo

Last Sunday, I posted about my favorite song Made to Love by Toby Mac. I included an audio of the song from Playlist.
Today I noticed that Made to Love was not loading in the playlist. Every time I refreshed the page, someone else’s playlist showed up instead. First it was [...]

WEE Books and Free Books

My love of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine is no secret. It’s the best homeschooling magazine available, period. They offer loads of other resources – from email newsletters to ebooks to a consolidated list of upcoming homeschool conventions around the country.
One new resource they are offering is a line of Wee Books [...]

Wednesday’s Weekly Weigh-In

It has been a strange diet-related two weeks for me. I was doing well (I think), then we went out of town for a couple days to visit my parents. I don’t feel like I did badly while we were there but I did drink a milkshake. No big deal since I [...]

The Old Schoolhouse Writing Contest

Do you have a child who loves to write? What about you…do you like to write? Most of us bloggers enjoy writing or else we wouldn’t be doing this. None of my boys have shown any interested in being writers (yet!), but if your kids have, you might be interested in the [...]

Education Review: Math Tutor DVD

Virtually all school subjects are easier to learn if you enjoy them. Some people enjoy some subjects more than other people do – they seem to have an inborn desire to know more about the subject and an innate ability to understand it through and through. I’m a grammar/language person, for instance. [...]

SPAM!!!!

Do any of you other bloggers get spam comments/trackbacks about prescription medicine? Almost daily, I have to delete comments about amoxicillin, vicodin, and who knows what else.
I have a comment filter called Yawasp that works well to filter out most things, but for some reason it totally misses these particular items. [...]

Song for Sunday

One of my favorite songs is Made to Love by Toby Mac. I could listen to it over and over. I thought you might enjoy it too so I’m sharing the audio and a couple videos today.
Unless you like the song as much as I do, you won’t want to hear it three [...]

Sisterhood Award

I am woefully late on posting this, but here goes…

Thank you to Karen Zamek for giving me the Sisterhood Award and saying that I’m a “good blogging buddy.” Karen’s blog is one of the first that I found after joining Entrecard. She is a nice Christian lady, and I’m happy to be able [...]

Sick

When a blog I regularly visit isn’t updated for a few days, I always wonder why. Just in case I have any regular readers, I thought I’d let you know why I haven’t been updating much over the last week.
Nicholas got sick last Monday evening and ran a fever of 103 until Friday morning. [...]

Freebies!

Who doesn’t like freebies? I can spot the word FREE a mile away. A couple years ago, I discovered the best spot for free homeschool-related items. Maybe you’ve noticed the link in my sidebar for Homeschool Freebie of the Day.
Each day during the week, Homeschool Freebie of the Day offers an electronic [...]