Kick it in Gear

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Diligent, I have not been. The best laid plans are… just plans… unless you actually put them into action. It is time.

Time for us to kick it back into high gear!  Time to look at what we’ve done (or haven’t done) over the first three months of

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Learning to Focus

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One of the best things about home education is the freedom it allows for travel.  This past winter we were able to hit the road for four months–just mom, dad, our fourteen year old son and our ten year old daughter in a van, traveling the country with

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Homeschooling is Parenting Kicked up a Notch

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The ABC’s of Homeschooling is on break for another week! Please join us for K Week on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012!  I look forward to seeing all of your wonderful posts after the holidays!

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What do you picture when a new friend says she is a homeschool mom? How

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Still Learning

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The ABC’s of Homeschooling is on break for a couple of weeks! Please join us for K Week on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012!  I look forward to seeing all of your wonderful posts after the holidays!

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We have been doing this home schooling thing now for

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Just JUMP

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Over the years we have taken all kinds of field trips. We’ve toured a commercial bakery, pizza place, grocery store, shopping mall, and two bowling alleys. We’ve visited zoos, taken hikes, and watched many educational movies at the IMAX theater. We’ve been skating, bowling, swimming, and even watched a Civil War re-enactment and

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