Tomorrow is my birthday. I mention it for a couple of reasons. First, I’m not planning on celebrating any more birthdays after this one. Second, last night I actually got to go out on a date. This is unfortunately not a frequent occurrence in our house. After a nice dinner and a little bit of…
I’ve got a plan!
I’ve been feeling kind of blah this year. I’ve tried not to complain here too much for a couple of reasons. First, I strive to not complain in general (though fail miserably) and second, who wants to read a bunch of whiny “I’m depressed” posts. This school year has been tough. We aren’t accomplishing everything…
Life of Fred Pre-Algebra
I got a notification that Life of Fred Pre-Algebra is available from Polka Dot Publishing. I just checked the website and he hasn’t even had a chance to add the description. But, it is on the order page. Here’s the description: Life of Fred: Pre-Algebra 1 with Biology Definition of Life, Sets, Fractions, Germination of…
American Heritage Education Foundation
What is American Heritage Education Foundation? AHEF is a non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation dedicated to the understanding and teaching of America’s factual and philosophical heritage to promote constructive citizenship and Freedom, Unity, Progress, and Responsibility among our students and citizens. AHEF accomplishes this patriotic mission by writing, producing, and distributing FREE K-12 lesson plans to…
American Heritage Education Foundation
What is American Heritage Education Foundation? AHEF is a non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation dedicated to the understanding and teaching of America’s factual and philosophical heritage to promote constructive citizenship and Freedom, Unity, Progress, and Responsibility among our students and citizens. AHEF accomplishes this patriotic mission by writing, producing, and distributing FREE K-12 lesson plans to…
Thankfulness
I participated in this challenge last year and found the extra encouragement to meditate on thankfulness a blessing. So, even though I’m starting late, I’m going to participate this year too. God’s grace and mercy extended to me Christ’s atoning blood The sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit God’s sovereignty My husband My children My…
A Young Scholar’s Guide to Composers
Bright Ideas Press is a family-owned and operated company that specializes in “Practical, Fun, and Affordable History, Geography, and Science Resources”. Maggie Hogan began homeschooling her now grown sons in 1991. Since there weren’t many resources for homeschoolers available then, she got a lot of practice writing her own curriculum. She is now using that…
A Young Scholar’s Guide to Composers
Bright Ideas Press is a family-owned and operated company that specializes in “Practical, Fun, and Affordable History, Geography, and Science Resources”. Maggie Hogan began homeschooling her now grown sons in 1991. Since there weren’t many resources for homeschoolers available then, she got a lot of practice writing her own curriculum. She is now using that…
Fooling the Senses
Last weekend we watched one of our Moody Science videos, Signposts Aloft. The video was about the need for instrument flight in airplanes and how our senses could be fooled without the instruments. They did an interesting demonstration in the video that showed how our sense of motion can be fooled when we can’t see.…
My Audio School
Have you heard about My Audio School? It is a new website filled with audio files of classic books as well as old radio and television shows. The files are divided into chapters and are arranged topically by historical era. A lot of work has gone into compiling this into one SAFE location for your…