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Reading List for Homeschool Moms

Thanks for all the suggestions for this reading list for homeschool moms. A couple days ago I asked you to suggest some books I can read this summer related to homeschooling, education, or parenting. You gave me some great suggestions, most of which I hadn't heard of before. I'm really looking forward to reading some […]

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Our Reading Book List for our Final Term

Here are the books my children will be reading during our last school term this year. Jaden, 12-year-old boy 1. Boyhood and Beyond: Practical Wisdom for Becoming a Man, by Bob Schultz. The title says it all. This book (and pretty much any book by Bob Schultz) came highly recommended by my friend Linda at […]

Filed Under: Planning & Organization · Strategies & Tips · Homeschool Planning

Scheduling a Low-Stress School Calendar

We finally may have found our low-stress school calendar that works for us. We've been homeschooling for five years, and in that time we've experimented with a number of different school calendars. We started off following the public school calendar, beginning and ending at the same time, and taking the same breaks at Thanksgiving, Christmas, […]

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Health Education Curriculum

Teaching health education without a formal curriculum is not as difficult as it sounds. Your local library and the internet can provide almost all the information you'd need to teach each of the ten basic content areas. Here are some resources and teaching suggestions for the first four content areas. This post is part one […]

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Our 3rd, 6th, and 8th Grade Homeschool Curriculum

I've found that even after five years of homeschooling, I'm still making a lot of adjustments to our curriculum each year. This coming year some of the adjustments are due to the fact that I need some subjects to be independent for my kids, hence the self-teaching math my older two are switching to. As […]

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What should I read this summer?

I need help to know what I should read this summer. I'd like to compile a reading booklist for myself this summer. Homeschooling, education, and parenting books are specifically what I'm looking for; but there are so many available, I'm not sure what books would be best to read. So I need your help. What are […]

Filed Under: Language Arts · Language Arts · Latin

Why Should I Learn Latin?

Why would I ever consider teaching latin to my homeschoolers? We live in america and latin is a dead language, right? When we first starting homeschooling and I was researching curriculum, I quickly realized there were a lot of homeschoolers out there teaching Latin to their children. Honestly, at first I thought they were just […]

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The Ultimate Geography and Timeline Guide

Welcome to my Build Your Own Homeschool Library series where I'm sharing with my readers some of my favorite books from my homeschool shelf. Please note that all the posts in this series contain my own opinions, and I have not been compensated by any publishing company for any of the content. Overview If teaching geography […]

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Design-a-Study Guides

Welcome to my Build Your Own Homeschool Library series where I'm sharing with my readers some of my favorite books from my homeschool shelf. Please note that all the posts in this series contain my own opinions, and I have not been compensated by any publishing company for any of the content. Overview Design-a-Study guides, by […]

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Rules of the Game: A Sports Encyclopedia

Welcome to my Build Your Own Homeschool Library series where I'm sharing with my readers some of my favorite books from my homeschool shelf. Please note that all the posts in this series contain my own opinions, and I have not been compensated by any publishing company for any of the content. Overview When I found […]

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