A New Thing and Heritage History Giveaway

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One week ago, I moved my blog from 5 Kids and a Dog to here.  Now we have new hosting service, new name, new domain, and a fresh new look! Since it was my birthday, I wanted to really spoil my readers with presents! Who doesn’t like presents? So I asked some friends to help

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Consider Renting Curriculum?

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I have an odd request.  I have looked and looked to find a set of Teaching Textbooks Math 4 CDs for my son.  I’m still looking.

The fact is, I can’t pay $100 for them. We just don’t have the money.  I haven’t been fast enough on the used ones

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Time 4 Learning- Review

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We have had such an interesting month!  As I told you in February, we had the opportunity to test out Time4Learning for a month. I Tweeted a little bit about our experience, but I didn’t want to give away much before I wrote my review. 

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Gathering Resources & Gearing Up

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It’s starting again. Our homeschool, that is!  We’ve had a month off, and as of this Monday the 3rd, we are beginning again.  I love taking an entire month off. It gives me such a great time to recharge just by NOT thinking about school!  Doing school in trimesters with a month

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Keep Your Destination in Mind When Changing Curriculum

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As always, I make mid-course corrections. Currently I am seeing things standing out at me that don’t make me overly happy, but that’s the way it goes. We have homeschooled long enough to know that one curriculum isn’t the be-all, end-all, and that nothing is one size FITS all, either.  Buying and selling curriculum

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