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Finishing Strong! Individual Student Strengths and Struggles (Free Checklist Download)

Today’s installment of the Finishing Strong! Series?is all about looking at a particular child’s strengths and struggles and using those to inform curriculum choices and plans for the next year. Strengths can make lessons easy – even too easy at … Continue reading

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Finishing Strong! Evaluate Before You Plan (Free Evaluation Form Download)

Before we can begin to plan for the next academic year, we first need to know how the current year went. Evaluation is an important part of any project and homeschooling is no exception. In this context, evaluation takes several … Continue reading

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Finishing Strong to Begin Again Strong!

  This kid is almost “done” for the summer! He has about ten pages of geography left and he took the book upstairs during quiet time so I’m thinking he’ll be done this week. The others aren’t far behind him. … Continue reading

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Finally! Nearing the End!

Spring has sprung right into summer here in New England! Freezing weather last week and now the children are running around barefoot. Lessons are nearly over for the “school year” and most days somebody is finished with a subject or … Continue reading

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The British Are Coming! (Win a Pass to the HEAV Convention!)

We took a trip to Boston, this past week. ?Since we’re on our summer schedule (two hours of schoolwork, two hours of household work and projects, and free time and expeditions for the rest of the day), I’m trying to … Continue reading

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Co-ops: An Important Piece of Your Homeschool Puzzle! Interview with Pat Wesolowski

Pat Wesolowski is an author, speaker, and homeschooling mother of nine who is now the homeschool specialist at Bryan College in Dayton, TN. Pat is the host of a podcast entitled ?Homeschooling Co-op Style.? She has homeschooled her nine children … Continue reading

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Something for Mom

  Just 72 hours before the children and I leave for our annual trip to Virginia and the HEAV Convention!? I’m working on putting together packing lists, lists of meals to prepare while we’re traveling and of course shopping lists … Continue reading

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And The Winner Is…..

        Daisy picked a name out of the basket! Tiffany Meyers, you are going to Convention!

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Have Circus Will Travel (all the way to Virginia for the HEAV Convention ) Family Pass Giveaway

These days the circus looks something like this! Three year olds can be talked into pretty much anything… especially if it’s mom doing the persuading! I am SO?saving this picture for his wedding rehearsal dinner! This guy is nearly four … Continue reading

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It’s Spring! Time for Yard Work, and Planning My Trip to Virginia and the HEAV Convention (with a Giveaway)

It’s April and time for me to plan my annual trip to Virginia! I’m so excited to be spending a bit more than two weeks visiting friends and family (including a visit to my sister at Poplar Spring Farm) and … Continue reading

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