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Thinking About the Future
I tend to do my homeschool planning in six week blocks. I usually do two blocks at a time and try to arrange things to have a couple of “make up” days built in to cover the inevitable changes in … Continue reading
Thirty Years Ago (Homeschooling in Virginia)
I was seven years old. My parents had just completed their first year of Homeschooling. I had done second grade via a correspondence course from A Beka Publications in Pensacola, FL ( and managed to almost fail because my handwriting … Continue reading
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The Convention Season
One of the things that gets me through the midwinter school doldrums is the thought of the upcoming convention season! Traditionally I’ve gone to the Home Educators Association of Virginia (HEAV) Convention in June and gotten all of my continuing … Continue reading
Planning, Planning….
Well! It’s been over a month since the homeschool convention and yesterday I finally got all the new materials unpacked and put away. In the process I discovered that I had already forgotten about some of the things I had … Continue reading
Blessings of the Homeschool Convention
As I said yesterday I have a great deal to process and think about after having attending the Home Educators Association of Virginia (HEAV) Convention last weekend. I thought I’d start with a brief mention of some of the blessings … Continue reading
Ahh…A Little Silence
I have so much to say and think about I thought I’d just pop in a short post whet your appetites… Recently (last weekend) attended the annual homeschool convention put on by our state organization. After two days of looking … Continue reading
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Thinking About Next Year
With the Virginia Homeschool Convention only two months away and a baby coming in the middle of that time I’ve been trying to pull together some preliminary thoughts for school next year- particularly in for unit studies in History/geography and … Continue reading
Science Lessons: Birds
Yesterday I received the final two books for our next six weeks of school. I had ordered them at the HEAV Convention and have been waiting for them so that I could put together the lesson plans for a six … Continue reading
Sometimes I’m not in the mood…
Call it hormones, the residue of the somewhat heated discussion we’d had the night before or whatever, but yesterday I woke up “just not in the mood to be thankful”.? That mood persisted all through getting ready for church, going … Continue reading
Homeschooling Convention 2011: A Brief Report
The really short version is this: I spent all day standing and walking on concrete while looking at curricula, and spending money. By the end of the the day I was light-headed since I pretty much forgot to eat! My … Continue reading