Teach Your Child to Read – A Scaredy Cat review

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This Joyce Herzog reading program is a great option for all your homeschooling reading needs. You can use it to teach your child to read and then continue all the way up to having an independent reader ready to read paragraphs. We used the Scaredy Cat Reading System Level 1 ($75) with Katherine this spring to help […]

Thankful Thursday

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I haven’t done one of these posts in a very long time but I felt led today to focus on the blessings in my life. Some days we just need to refocus our hearts on the blessings and less on the hurt of this world, don’t we. So for this Thankful Thursday post my prayer […]

Wordless Wednesday

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Today’s Wordless Wednesday is actually a little wordy. But the pictures are great if I do say so myself!! My three older children are playing soccer. This is the first time any of our children have played team sports and we are all enjoying the experience thoroughly. It is just a small learning program at […]

The Lord’s Day

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I hope that you all had the opportunity to rest yesterday because not only as it Mother’s Day but more importantly it was the Lord’s Day. For my family we spent the day on my parent’s farm after our morning worship service. It was so nice to sit outside and build relationships and enjoy God’s […]

Homeschooling without Textbooks – Language Arts

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I have a huge desire to see my children excel at writing. I want them to be able to put pencil to paper and walk away with something that is easy to read, neatly written, properly spelled and punctuated, and has a clear point. And a couple of years ago as I sat with my […]

Homeschool Freebies

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Did you know that many of the great reading and good grade incentive programs that are open to public schools now accept homeschool families as well? These homeschool freebies are a welcome treat for most of us who are living on one income and don’t often have a lot of extra. Here are some of […]

Homeschool Spanish – Spanish for You! Review

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Spanish for You! recently sent me their Estaciones program for review. The Estaciones program offers lessons that focus on the weather and seasons and much more. It is a fully interactive curriculum that works great as a whole family study with worksheets for all levels. It can be easily taught by a parent with no prior […]

Creamy Chicken Rice – Without an Envelope

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This yummy side dish was born out of my desire to eat more rice because of the low cost of this yummy ingredient but also to stop buying all those packages of sodium laden flavored rice from the store. This Creamy Chicken Rice makes a great side for almost any meal and yet if you […]