My husband has been telling me for years, “You need to do Latin with the kids.” My response has been some variation of “Yeah, I should. I will. Someday. When I find the right one.” You see, he taught a basic latin course to our oldest children, but I did not want to take the time to learn how to…
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As a mother and my children’s educator I’m torn between letting my kids have a summer full of fun and frolic or a summer of “let’s not forget what we learned in school this year!” Is it possible to have both? I say, “yes!” I’ve seen a lot of bucket lists for summer floating around the internet. What a great…
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June is here! Though some are still in school, many of you have already officially started your summer. Our most viewed post from last week’s Encouraging Hearts & Home blog hop was Summer Observations: Letting Children Spread Their Wings – perfect for getting our summer days under way. My featured posts this week are: Water Day Ideas – because a…
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Recently I mentioned to some friends I would like to find stories about missionaries and other Christian heros we could read out loud as a family. Well, what do you know, soon after I found out members of the Homeschool Review Crew were going to be given the opportunity to receive and review a book from the Christian Heroes: Then…
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My days are full of birthday plans and summer expectations. We are entering birthday season here so we’ll be doing a lot of celebrating. We’ve switched to a year-round schooling schedule but we’ll be taking some fun field trips and short excursions during the upcoming months. What are your summer plans? Thursdays are my day to plan and look forward…
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