Our America…The Pilgrim Adventure by Susan Kilbride
New from Homeschool Book Club: Summary- Finn & Ginny’s parents are lost back in time, and the two young twins have decided to go back to early America to find them. Their search takes the twins to the Mayflower where they discover that the Pilgrims had far more adventures than...
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2012
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Snap up this $5 Learn Our History DVD 3-Pack!
Awesome 48-hour deal for the one-year birthday of Mike Huckabee’s Learn Our History video series. Our family loves these!!! We just watched our newest one this morning, about the Pilgrim (the kids did a video review for you). ————– IT’S LEARN OUR HISTORY’S 1ST BIRTHDAY, BUT YOU GET THE GIFT!...
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2012
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Homeschool Missionaries to Mexico Robbed
From Misty Marr: I would like to ask you all to pray for my parents, Mike and Pam Richardson. They are missionaries in Mexico and are presently traveling across the country hosting a series of home-school conferences. They were robbed this morning (5-10-12). We praise God that no one was...
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2012
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Rick Santorum’s Endorsement of Governor Mitt Romney
From Rick Santorum: On Friday, Governor Romney came to Pittsburgh for an over-hour long one-on-one meeting. The conversation was candid, collegial and focused on the issues that you helped me give voice to during our campaign; because I believe they are essential ingredients to not only winning this fall, but...
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2012
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10 Lessons Mike Farris Has Learned in 30 Years of Homeschooling
Great article by Homeschool Legal Defense Association’s Mike Farris. I love to hear what wisdom the home educating veterans have to share! 10 Lessons Mike Farris Has Learned in 30 Years of Homeschooling Points #4, 5 and 9 were especially helpful to me. I’d love to hear your thoughts, too!...
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Archive for May, 2012
THAT RESOURCE SITE This Catholic homeschooling family from Canada offers loads of freebie printable resources for homeschoolers and religious educators on their website. An impressive, useful collection of materials & printables that will be useful both to Catholic and non-Catholic families alike. Take a look and glean! Check it out and bookmark it: http://thatresourcesite.blogspot.com Thanks to the great folks over at www.homeschoolfreebieoftheday.com for this heads-up!...
HIGH SCHOOL WORSHIP TEAM [Submitted by Ginger Gillespie] DESCRIPTION: Are you a guitarist, bass player, drummer, keyboardist, vocalist, pan-flutist …or is it pan-flautist? Do you have a heart for worship? Would you like to develop your skills in leading others in worship? Do you wish you could play songs YOU like? The K.E.Y.S. Worship Teams are looking for guitarists, bass players, drummers, keyboardists, and vocalists who want to use their musical talents to worship God. These teams are also open to other instrumentalists (brass, winds, and strings) who would like to develop their improvisational skills. Who knows, you may...
MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL VOCAL TEAMS Location: Pure Heart Christian Fellowship MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL VOCAL TEAMS [Submitted by Ginger Gillespie] DESCRIPTION: Whether you sing in the shower, the car, or anywhere else, we’re looking for YOU to sign up for Vocal Team at K.E.Y.S. of Arizona! All levels of singers are welcome – people who love to sing, or would like to learn, or have never sung as part of a group before! We do fun, current Christian songs that YOU, the students, choose! WHEN: MIDDLE SCHOOL VOCAL TEAM meets Mondays and Thursdays from Noon...
Hello Savannah, The deadline for the current 44% early registration discount for 2012 live online classes and is Saturday of this week, August 13… http://landryacademy.com/classes.html _______________________________ Online Scavenger Hunt Win a 15 Inch Laptop Computer This scavenger hunt was created by our teacher, English department coordinator, and student newspaper faculty advisor, Mrs Guerra! It’s a tough one. Ready to have some fun and perhaps win a laptop computer? Feel free to forward this to friends who may want to participate. One person will win a 15 inch laptop computer! You can submit your answer...
Have you (or a homeschooling family you know) recently suffered a job loss, tragedy or illness which may prohibit homeschooling? The Homeschool Foundation, which is a non-profit 501(C)(3) organization founded by the HSLDA, was designed to help needy families in the homeschool community. Please contact Julie McDermott, AZ Community Ambassador for the Homeschool Foundation atJulie.mcdermott AT hotmail DOT com. For more info on how to get help or become an ambassador: http://homeschoolfoundation.org/...
From Doug Phillips of Vision Forum: This article appeared in The Christian Post this week. A group of pastors and former youth ministry leaders suggest that today’s youth ministries should be > disbanded, calling the common practice of separating congregations by age for worship and Bible study “unbiblical.” The church leaders state their case in the documentary film, “Divided: Is Age-Segregated Ministry Multiplying or Dividing the Church?” The film is produced by the National Center for Family Integrated Churches in association with LeClerc Brothers Motion Pictures. The producers released the documentary earlier this month online, and have made it...
from Large Family Mothering: I love foreign languages; I had the privilege of learning to speak Czech while in the military—47 weeks, six hours a day. Because of a bit of traveling, I also have just enough French and German in my vocabulary to be quite dangerous—just don’t ever ask me directions in those languages! The amazing thing to me at the time of my schooling learning Czech was just how many other languages my native-born instructors had under their belts. When we questioned them as to how they learned all of these other tongues, they shrugged their shoulders...
Remember back when the Duggars visited Focus On the Family? While the kids had a ball touring the Adventures in Odyssey studio, Jim Bob and Michelle sat down and chatted with Focus On the Family Daily hosts.To listen to part one of their interview, … click here. For the second segment, follow this link. To buy the interview on CD, visit ChristianBook.com. Here’s a little background information about Lily and Ellie, authors of the Duggar Family Blog… We are a mother-daughter team that began blogging during the summer of 2009. Our intent was to spend quality time together, while...
From Beverly Hernandez at About.com: New Hampshire’s Wild Times Magazine has lots of fun stuff for you to do, like games, quizzes and collectible wildlife cut-out cards, plus amazing wildlife stories and facts. Just print them out – and have fun! There are currently eighteen back issues available. It looks like there won’t be new issues, but these are still excellent resources to learn about snakes, birds, spiders, hibernation, and much more. … Read Full Post...
from Duggarsblog at Blogspot: Providing for 19 kids has its challenges, but the Lord has been faithful to the Duggar family. “As we have had our children and expanded our family, God has always increased our income just a little bit more to take care of it,” Jim Bob shares during a recent Today Show interview. The Duggars are frequent thrift store shoppers and have been debt-free since studying Jim Sammons’ Financial Freedom seminar years ago. Sticking to their famous motto, Jim Bob and Michelle purpose to “buy used and save the difference,” but there is one store where they...
