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Audio File Does your Thanksgiving sparkle with music, laughter and wit? Has the food you labored over for hours disappeared in minutes? Has your family learned to linger and enjoy one another’s company? One year, my extended family celebrated Thanksgiving at a reconstructed French and Indian War fort, where...
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For some time, I have been pondering the concept of “good.” In specific contexts, it is really easy to understand: good food, a good grade, a good battery, good news, my good side, good music, good friends, good weather, a good book, good health, a good job, a good...
Read the Full ArticleNationwide Insurance has a tag line that says, “Life comes at you fast”—and it does. I must confess, I have fallen behind in my Foundations memory work. I had to go out of town because of work for a couple of weeks in a row and it really threw...
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Audio File Thanksgiving has come to mean parades of fanciful floats, gourmet feasts, and football, but amidst all of that have we lost the true meaning behind the historical event? As creative homeschoolers, we try to add some meaning to the day by making paper chains that list all...
Read the Full ArticleA couple of weeks ago I competed in the Belews Lake Triathlon. I have always wanted to complete a triathlon because it just sounds cool. I walked a marathon in 2003, and I wanted to see if I could do a triathlon. Now, the marathon was a long six...
Read the Full ArticleI’m a simple guy. When I find complex issues, I try to boil things down to simple terms. Lately I’ve been thinking about the American welfare state. Something about it bothers me. Well, more than one thing, actually. But what is the real problem here? People (children!) don’t have...
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A nice long summer is spreading out before us, and I am remembering the words of Anne of Green Gables. “Ah, summer! Two months of glorious freedom!” she exclaimed on her walk home from the last class of the school year. As a homeschool mom with two months of...
Read the Full ArticleToday is the National Day of Prayer and it is important today to remember to pray for those homeschooling families who may not be as fortunate as many of ours in their legal freedoms and to keep them in our prayers along with our leaders, families and friends. John 15:5 (NIV):...
Read the Full ArticleLife comes at you fast, they say. For me, it’s not just the speed, it’s the volume. My mind has to be engaged almost all the time. There is always something else to do. There is always something else to know, something else to use, something else to obey....
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As an Essentials tutor, mothers often ask me, “Why do we have to teach so much grammar?” Many of us graduated from college without being able to define “object complement,” so why would we expect our fourth graders to do so? First and foremost, we’re preparing our children to...
Read the Full ArticlePi Day March 14th, 2011 Fun links for today! Wikipedia: Pi CNN.com: Is Pi under attack? (link no longer available) MSNBC: Student recites 8,784 digits of Pi (link no longer available) Youtube: 8 year old recites 200 digits of Pi Pi Facts on Fact Retriever Classical Conversations does not...
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It is late August—Day 1 of school for your Challenge kids. You, the tutor, ask the question, “What sort of cool things did you learn over the summer that challenged your thinking? What did you learn that made you defend your beliefs?” Hands shoot up all over the classroom,...
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