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Filed Under: High School · Strategies & Tips · Career Planning

How to Help Your Homeschool Child Choose a Career (Part 2)

So now for the million-dollar question: What career would best fit my child? Well, there's no quick answer to that question because finding the answer is a process. Here are some ways to help you and your child discover what career might be the best fit for him.

Filed Under: High School · Strategies & Tips · Career Planning

How to Help Your Homeschool Child Choose a Career (Part 1)

How soon should your child start thinking seriously about what he wants to do as a career? High school? Should he wait until he’s been to college a couple of years so he can explore his options?

Filed Under: Social Studies · Free Curriculum · Social Studies

FREE Stossel in the Classroom DVDs and Streaming Video for Educators

For good discussion starters for teaching your students about the real world, the free stossel in the classroom DVDs have helped our family. There is also the ability to stream videos from his website. Many students (and parents alike) complain that some of the subjects children study in school don't really prepare them for the […]

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How Much Money Do Families Spend on Food?

  Click on the graphic above to view it full size. In considering budgets or expenditures, have you ever wondered how much other families spend on food in comparison to what you spend? I know a lot of homeschoolers work very hard to keep a tight reign on their budgets, so I though this might […]

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Discover Africa Notebooking Packet Review

In the last semester of last school year, my youngest daughter told me she wanted to study Africa.  I didn't know of any curriculum off the top of my head, so I did a little research and we ended up using Journey Into Africa. It turned out to be a pretty good curriculum, but even […]

Filed Under: Curriculum · Language Arts · Language Arts · Reading

Our 10th Grade Homeschool Reading List

Thinking ahead I have prepared my son's 10th grade homeschool reading list. I'm trying to be proactive and plan my children's reading list before school starts for once! The lists for my 8th and 5th graders are still unfinished, but here are the books my 10th grade soon will be reading this school year. It's […]

Filed Under: Language Arts · Free Curriculum · Language Arts

Rhyme While You Write! (Free Online Rhyming Dictionary)

Do you have any budding poets in your family? They might really enjoy this unique online rhyming dictionary called Write Rhymes. It's not your normal dictionary where you look up words out of context. Instead, you type your poem right into the text box—or paste it in from your word processor)—and when you want to […]

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Our 5th Grade Homeschool Curriculum

We're now two weeks into our school year, and I'm happy to say I've finally figured out what curriculum my 5th grader is doing. Here's a rundown of what she'll be finishing up the rest of the year. Language Arts: We are using the Level 2 Language Arts program by Michael Clay Thompson which includes […]

Filed Under: Life Skills · Free Curriculum · Life Skills

Teaching Kids to Clean (Free Ebook)

Do I need to teach my kids the life skill of cleaning? I'd love to say that all three of my children are experts at cleaning. That I can send them to clean the bathroom and it'll be sparkling when they're done. That I can arm them with a feather duster and they can expertly […]

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Free Printable Logical Fallacy Poster

Are you studying logical fallacies with your kids? If you're not, you should! And this printable logical fallacy poster from YourLogicalFallacyIs.com can help. It lists and describes 24 different logical fallacies that we frequently encounter. "A logical fallacy is usually what has happened when someone is wrong about something. It's a flaw in reasoning. They're […]

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