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Unsanctioned Field Trips
By Heather Sanders You know those days when your kids are weary of writing essays for English? The days when they would rather shave their heads than figure out another missing slope in Algebra? Or...
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Choices
By Heather Sanders Two weeks ago the kids attended our church’s Winter Retreat. With temperatures dipping into the upper 20s and lower 30s, and the weekend promising equally cold weather with cloudy...
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Community Question: 16 Years of Homeschooling. Now what?
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Night Owls, Early Birds, and Homeschooling
By Heather Sanders I am not a night owl. My favorite days begin before the sun rises and require little brain power once it sets, which is why I am thankful the kids are of an age where they can be...
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Homeschool Documentary Review: Class Dismissed
By Heather Sanders Back in 2011, Kristen Chase wrote a blog post about the documentary, Class Dismissed, when the movie’s producers were seeking their first round of funding. The movie did receive the...
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Community Question: Prepping for Preschool
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Word Nerd Quiz: Friday Night!
If you love vocabulary…if interesting words make your heart flutter…if you think a nice, juicy word is as beautiful as a prairie sunset or a Basset Hound’s ears…drop by Friday night and try your hand...
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WORD NERD Quiz: Enter Now!
Time for the big Word Nerd quiz! (WARNING: This might be the hardest Word Nerd quiz yet. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya…) TO ENTER To enter the quiz, answer the questions at the end of this post....
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Word Nerd Quiz: Answers and Winners!
Wow, great job everyone! It was a tough quiz and many of you held your own. Here are the stats, answers, and winners! STATS 2,249 people took the quiz. 151 people scored 100% (this was a tough one!)...
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Why I enrolled in Algebra.
By Heather Sanders Two weeks into this school year, I called Alpha Omega Publications and requested they enroll me in the same online Algebra 1 course Meredith was taking. No one was as surprised as I...
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Community Question: Chronic Fatigue & Homeschooling
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Making “room” for homeschooling.
By Heather Sanders Some people have dry erase boards; we have sweaty, single-paned, old-as-the-hills windows. And you know what? It’s fine. We no longer have room for dry erase boards, bulletin...
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Community Question: Starting a small school.
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Mean Ol’ Schoolmarm: Supposedly vs. Supposably
By Heather Sanders It would be so much easier if I could write that supposably wasn’t a word and encourage you to erase it from your vocabulary entirely: the problem is, supposably IS a word. At...
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I’m Always Evaluating. You?
By Heather Sanders At this time every year, I begin thinking about the upcoming school year. Some of it has to do with the emails dropping into my inbox. There are an increasing number of parents...
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Community Question: Family Discouraging Homeschooling
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The Great Exam Debate
By Heather Sanders Meredith and I have our semester Algebra Exam tomorrow. At another time in my life (like 28 years ago or so), I would hyperventilate at the thought. Thankfully, time and practice...
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Community Question: Five Weeks of Homeschooling
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Twenty Interesting Things About…Daylight Saving Time
By Heather Sanders March is two days away, which means that soon some of us will move our clocks forward one hour. If you’re anything like me, you can only remember what to do by saying “spring...
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Community Question: Help me motivate my boys!
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