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Filed Under: Curriculum

How to Take Control of Your Time!

My good friend Amy (of Blogging With Amy fame) has just launched her ebook about organizing your time and managing your schedule. I've already read through the whole ebook, and I've gotta say, it's pretty awesome. And convicting too. Organizing my time — keeping my priorities straight — is definitely something I personally need to work […]

Filed Under: Social Studies · Social Studies

Fighting for our Liberties with Education

Educating our kids history will help them to be able to fight for our liberties that we have here in America. We educate our children to equip them to become responsible adults, to be able to support their families, and to be productive members of society. But if our children grow up to have good-paying […]

Filed Under: Language Arts · Language Arts

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)

Last year my husband and 10-year-old daughter participated in NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month. Throughout the month of November, they both wrote a novel from scratch. It was a great learning experience for both of them. This year my 13-year-old and 11-year-old are planning to participate. (EDIT: My 8-year-old has decided to participate this […]

Filed Under: Social Studies · Strategies & Tips · Free Curriculum · Government · Social Studies

Painless Lessons on Government

Politics can be so confusing. What does it mean to be a Democrat? A Republican? A Libertarian? What does the Tea Party believe? What did the American Founders believe? This is a topic we've been discussing lately at our house. I've been reading aloud the Uncle Eric Series of books to the kids this year, and […]

Filed Under: Math · Math

Key To Fractions Curriculum

This is my favorite fractions curriculum but the series is not limited to fractions only. Joely has long been fascinated with fractions. So now that she's doing Singapore Math 3, and she's got a good handle on multiplication and division, I've finally pulled out the big guns — in my opinion one of the best […]

Filed Under: Home Management

I love free stuff from Amazon!

This month we ordered more free things from Amazon.com. We paid for our order with Amazon.com gift cards, all of which we earned with Swagbucks. In the past, we've mostly ordered books for school, but this time we opted to order goodies for the kitchen. Here's this months' order: Cooking, by James Peterson Artisan Bread […]

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