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I've blogged about flash cards before: "How We Do Flashcards"Today I am adding to our Rod & Staff Math 7 flash cards.  It's tedious.  They aren't very neat.  However, I have found that my 13yo does...

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All Over the Place

On The Well-Trained Mind message boards, a favorite activity is to discuss curriculum plans for the upcoming school year.  I know it is only February but homeschooling moms are already posting their...

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Using what's already on the shelf

Due to having my head stuck in the sand, I recently realized that there isn't any money for new homeschool books.   We have plenty of books here it's just that I can't buy the new ones I want to...

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Surprise! It's the little things...

Step 1 of All About Spelling level 1 is to learn all the letter sounds.  Seems easy enough, right?  E has two sounds.  A, I, and U have three.  O has four.  And then there is Y.  It has a consonant...

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Doing the right thing?

In December I went into panic mode.  Since then 9yo and I have been slaving away trying to prepare her for standardized testing this summer.  We've been doing two levels of math (Rod & Staff Math 2...

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Done!

Yes!  I'm so happy. : )For years I have saved textbooks for my youngest.  And let me tell you, Rod & Staff student books and teacher manuals take up a lot of space.  I have longingly looked at the...

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It's a keeper!

Today my 13yo and I finished reading K12's The Human Odyssey Vol. 1.  I thoroughly enjoyed it and can't wait to start volume 2!  This is one textbook I plan to keep. 

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Rod & Staff Math 2

No, I didn't drop it entirely.  I felt she still needed daily work with her addition math facts, so after a few days I added R&S Math 2 back into our daily lineup.  I look through the worksheets...

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The Play's the Thing

My two teens have been taking a Shakespeare Conquest class since last fall.  The class ended this past week with two performances of  "Much Ado About Nothing."  For two months our lives became...

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Rod & Staff Math 2 - Done!

Lesson #170 today.  We are FINALLY done!

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Reality

I have visions of grandeur.  I want my kids to love Latin and the classics.  And then, there is reality.  14yo has expressed a desire to focus on English (writing, grammar, spelling, etc.) this summer....

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Free at last!

Programs and classes are winding down for the summer and I'm feeling FREE!My teens attended a Shakespeare Conquest class during the school year.  The last six weeks were spent preparing to perform...

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Plug - The Book Samaritan

I would like to put in a plug for The Book Samaritan.  Here's a previous blog post and here is an article explaining how their ministry works.Simply:you box up your curriculum that you no longer...

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Goodbye to another book

Even though 10yo has been sick today, she was able to finish another book.  : )Rod & StaffBible Nurture Reader SeriesGrade 2 readers

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How do you spell relief?

She did it!  After seven months of preparation, 10yo took her first standardized test this morning.  The tester was kind enough to call me this afternoon and give me my daughter's scores.  She is...

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Back in the saddle...again

Luckily for me I am blessed with a 14yo who is self motivated.  She has been setting school goals  (and accomplishing them) for most of the summer. 10yo and I on the other hand needed a break.  I tried...

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Writing

Writing is a mystery to me.  I mean, really, how do you teach writing?  As a high school and then community college student the instructors wanted me to turn in an outline first.  I couldn't do it.  I...

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Planner Love

I can't plan worth beans.  I have these vague goals rolling around in my head, but I can NOT seem to get specific plans on paper.  It works out in a "do the next thing" kind of way.  We do stuff for...

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Homeschool goes better when...

My efforts to homeschool actually go better when public school and the local private school are back in session.  There aren't any friends to play with so 10yo attends to her school work rather than...

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September 16-22

Another full week of early morning seminary.  I was dying by the end of the week.14yo has already passed off eleven scripture mastery verses.17yo finished knitting her first vest.  It fits her...

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