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Saturday, October 14, 2017

Future Software Engineer & Coding

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Our daughter has decided that she wants to gear her high school courses towards being a software engineer.  She has always been strong in ma...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Update On Us

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I haven't taken the time to catalog all of our journeys with homeschool the past few years or so due to surgeries, miscarriages and a c...

8th Grade Renaissance & Modern Book List

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We will only be choosing about half of the books (poems) from this list for the year.  Also, I haven't screened all of the books either,...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

7th Grade Medieval History Book List

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Beowulf: A New Telling - Nye Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Tolkien The Canterbury Tales - McCaughrean The Inferno of Dante - Alighie...
Friday, December 2, 2016

Homeschool Bookshelves

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We recently moved from Washington state to Ohio and we love it here!  We have more room in our new home and are able to have a homeschool ro...
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Friday, July 22, 2016

Logic Stage Outlining

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Starting in the Logic Stage, which is grades 5-8, you will want to teach the child to outline.  The Well-Trained Mind explains why a slow p...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

7th Grade Curriculum Plans

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I planned out our 7th grade year earlier this year and since then, I've made a few changes.  This is our tentative 7th grade plans: B...

6th Grade Ancient History Book List

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K's book list for 6th grade to go along with what she is reading in her Ancient history studies: Tales of Ancient Egypt - Green The ...
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Friday, February 19, 2016

How Do You Homeschool?

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A common question I have been asked over the past 7 years that I've homeschooled has been: "How do you homeschool?"  There are...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

6th Grade Curriculum - Index of Posts

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Here is a list of posts about what curriculum we are using for 6th grade: Language Arts - English, Spelling, Latin, Reading and Writing M...

6th Grade Science - Botany, Anatomy & Zoology

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For 6th grade science, we will be doing block studies of botany, anatomy and zoology.  We have several science encyclopedias and will use th...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

K'nex Education - Blender

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Another awesome physics project from the Gears set!
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Narration With Minecraft

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K isn't a big fan of history and it is the one subject that she isn't too enthused about writing a narration for.  I had her evaluat...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

K'nex Education - Car Window Crank

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K built her 2nd physics project - a car window crank.  She didn't understand it at first and I had to explain to her that we used to hav...
Monday, March 9, 2015

Organizing Homeschool Books by Subject or Category

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We have accumulated a lot of science, history or other books that pertain to homeschool topics and I wanted them organized even more than ju...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

6th Grade History

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K has already completed a study of history from ancient times to modern, so she will be starting the chronological cycle all over again. F...

6th Grade Math, Logic and Bible

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In Math , K will be finishing up Saxon Math 6/5 and starting 7/6 mid-year hopefully.  We use Saxon Teacher and love, love, love it!! Fo...

6th Grade Language Arts - English, Latin, Reading, Writing, Spelling

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For English , we are still in Rod and Staff English 5 but continuing on with R&S English 6 - we love this curriculum!  It also teaches w...
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Thursday, February 12, 2015

K'nex Simple Machines Gears - Crank Fan

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K is really enjoying physics and one of the recent projects she made was an crank fan from the K'nex Simple Machines Gears Kit .  She wa...
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Friday, January 16, 2015

Completed 4th Grade Reading List

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Here are the books that K read this past year for 4rd grade and also the read-alouds we read to her. I was pretty lenient this year for th...

5th Grade History and Literature Read-Aloud List

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Some of these are family read-a-louds and some are extra independent reading for K that pertain to what she is studying in history.  They ar...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Our Growing Educational Books

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I like having books on a variety of topics available for my kids, so when they have a yearning for a certain subject, chances are we will ha...
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5th Grade Curriculum Index of Posts

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Here is an index of posts of what we are using for 5th grade: Bible, Logic and Foreign Language Math, Writing, English and Spelling His...

5th Grade History & Science

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For history we have took our time and are just now getting to Story of the World Volume 4 .  I don't regret it though because we have r...
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