Home Education Week Meme: Profiling Home Educators

Profiling Home Educators
Monday, March 31
Describe yourself, your family or one of your children. What is it like to be home educated in your family? What is “normal” for you?

Hello! My name is Heidi!
I had a life before I met my husband – – but, for the most part, it is not a life I care [...]

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Home Education Week Meme: Looking Back

 Looking Back
Sunday, March 30
Share your personal history…before you were a home educator. What was life like? Think about things you miss and things you and your family have gained.

I started homeschooling my oldest daughter in 2004. For four years prior to that time, I was a full-time student and had part and full-time employment outside [...]

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Home Education Week: Topics to Write About….

Dana at Principled Discovery has put together a few writing prompts to get us all in the writing/sharing mood.    She will have Mr. Linky, so you can link your posts to her site.

Here are the writing prompts (to give you some time to ponder):
          Looking Back Sunday, March 30 Share your personal history…before [...]

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Ponder….

Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.
- Geoff Arbuthnot
Forgiveness is like the fragrance a flower gives after it has been stepped on.
- Anonymous
Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow.
- T.S. Eliot
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.
- Henry Chester
The INNOVATION point is the [...]

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Cookbooks for Kids

Gold Medal Flour (from Betty Crocker) is offering TWO different cookbooks for kids.  According to the PDF Order Form, you can only order until December 31, 2008.  Each book is only $3.99.
The Alpha-Bakery Children’s Cookbook

“The Alpha-Bakery Children’s Cookbook teaches kids the ABC’s of cooking. Inside you’ll find recipes for breads, cakes, cookies, desserts, main dishes and [...]

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Meme: What you wish you’d have known your first year of homeschooling….

It is MEME time again!!! YEAH!!
This weeks topic from Heart of the Matter: What you wish you’d have known your first year of homeschooling.

I almost feel like I am cheating by writing this post. Although not “technically” my first year – – if you really only look at time involved, it IS my [...]

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FREE: Nine Classical Music Tracks

Nine Inch Nails has come out with a new CD: Ghosts I-IV.  They are offering the first nine tracks (with PDF), FREE on their website.  Just click the “order” link at the bottom left side — the page will show several options for ordering – – the free option is on the top right hand [...]

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Book Sale Finder Site

While tag-surfing, I ran across yannatopia’s blog about Book Sales.  In her blog, she included a link to a site where you can look up the Book Sales in your area. 
Here it is, Book Sale Finder Site

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Favorite Homeschool Moment Meme

 
This week’s Meme at The Heart of the Matter is: Favorite Homeschool Moment.

I read a couple (from others) before I started writing my Meme….mostly because I could not just come up with one particular moment….and I hoped to read some of the responses and one of them would jog “THE” spectacular moment. Well, what I [...]

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Southpaugh AAR for the week ending March 14, 2008

Monday
History-Read “The Black Douglas” from Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Language Arts-Copy Work for “The Covetous Man” from Aesop’s Fables
Literature-Read “The Covetous Man” from Aesop’s Fables; Read No Mirrors in My Nana’s House; Read Chapters 14 and 15 from Shiloh.
Quiz-Took the quiz for Shiloh from www.BookAdventure.com
Math-Miquon Math Worksheet Pgs. E-1 through E-6
Poetry-Read XXXIII – The Swing from [...]

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