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Our homeschooling group has held a Kid’s Forum presentation group every month of the school year for the last twelve years that we have routinely participated in, as we have been an active part of this group since the beginning. The most recent eleven years we’ve met at a church hall a block from my … Read more
I’ve collected these quotes about children and education from Facebook friends…
Enjoy!
We have homeschooled alongside Christopher and his family for well over a decade. Carpooling a lot with him recently we’ve been hearing about the jet engine he has been building. Yesterday at our Homeschooling Science Fair we finally got to see it! He did an awesome job on it, and I couldn’t be more proud … Read more
A year and a half ago I visited Brown with our middle child who ended up not applying there. Today I took our youngest for her first formal college visit…
Homeschooling is an extended family. Today we collected at the bowling alley for some social time. Note the age range from a one year old to 17 year olds.
I’m on a homeschooling chat list and a mother asked for ideas for her 12 year old who is gifted in math and science but bored in Bible study. Here’s what I…
Yesterday we held our yearly Classical Kids Art Fair; it was well attended and a rousing success. Here are just a few of the wonderful works displayed.
Last night I spent some time helping a homeschooler figure out some great picture books for the first half of world history. Here are the links I rustled up…
Last Saturday, I went to a lovely evening with hot chocolate around a gorgeous, upscale campfire, to welcome newcomers to our homeschooling group and…
I went to the Mystic Aquarium with our youngest daughter and loved the beluga whales. They were very friendly and social, joyous about being loved.
Our youngest daughter is taking AP Human Geography this year, and coupled in the photo above with her textbook is the 22nd edition of Goode’s World Atlas.
Homeschooling parents learn all sorts of things. This is today’s interesting tidbit. I’ll comment on it below after sharing the basic story here:
Our son received his high school diploma today at our local homeschool group. Andrew gave his last presentation at “Kid’s Forum” where he has given 90 speeches.
Well, we have sent an acceptance check to Swarthmore! Our son felt that it was the best school with the most options and opportunity.
Well, the FIRST robotics season is over and my kids brought their robot to the homeschooling science fair, and did a great job teaching little kids about it.
One of the schools my son is seriously considering is Dartmouth, so we visited it in New Hampshire today, in sweltering 91 degree April heat.
I’ve just had an enlightening time on a website learning about the size and scale of the universe.