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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May
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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May
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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May
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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2012
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field trips
Now that we’re getting back into our homeschooling groove after Baby, opportunities abound! Wow, I’m exhausted. Was your Christmas season hectic, too? We ended up packing, moving, and beginning to unpack through the holidays, and I invited my lonely dad to come spend a few weeks with us during that same time. Lots of activity and adjustments, and stress. Not to mention the baby decided to constantly test the acoustics of our new bare tile floors, and the limits of our hearing! I’m so excited to be able to leave it all behind for a few hours and be refreshed...
By Becky Ogden Last weekend, we went with Boy Scout Troop 461 to the outskirts of Crown King so that the boys could do some mistletoe picking. Outskirts actually makes it sound bigger than it really is. We’re talking well (26 miles!) off the beaten path nearest paved road here. Once we turned off the I-17, I found out why Mapquest says it takes 90 minutes to get there! After the mistletoe picking, apparently the tradition has been to head over to The Mill in Crown King. It is aptly named… Yup, that’s in the dining room! The restaurant has...
By Becky Ogden Ohmygosh, need I say more? Let’s just put it this way, the only thing I didn’t like about the Boyce Thompson Arboretum was the drive out there. From Peoria, it was 79 miles or something like that. Nonetheless, it’s been on my list of places to go for a few years and now that my littlest doesn’t scream for the entire duration of every single car ride she goes on, I was ready for the trip. The view when we got there…. Just inside the Arboretum, heading down the Main Trail… First stop was a sign that gives...
By Becky Ogden Lake Pleasant is the crown jewel of the Maricopa County Parks and Recreation department. In addition to the lake and all of the activities that water affords, the park also has a Visitor’s Center, the Desert Outdoor Center, lots of hiking trails, and holds a variety of classes and special events throughout the year. Even though we’ve been in Peoria for almost four years, we’ve only been up to Lake Pleasant a few times, and we’ve never been to the Visitor’s Center. My son needed to find ten pieces evidence of wildlife to satisfy a requirement for...
By Becky Ogden I haven’t been as pleasantly surprised by the quality of the field trip and by how much I enjoyed a field trip at the Musical Instrument Museum since last winter’s trip to the Japanese Gardens in Phoenix. Yes, I’d heard some rave reviews of the MIM from other people. I just still wasn’t quite sure what to expect, and let me tell you: my expectations were blown away. This museum was awesome. Our group met in the lobby, where they had a piano. Right away, the music is there. My daughter and her friend couldn’t resist playing...
Join the Friends of the Peoria Public Library Nov. 20 for a Native American Heritage Month Celebration at 1:30 p.m. It features a performance by 2011 World Hoop Dancing Champion Brian Hammill, as well as books, games and activities. The celebration takes place at Sunrise Mountain Library, 21109 N. 98th Ave., Peoria, AZ. Call 623-773-8650 for more information....
By Becky Ogden On our way to Pratt’s Pets, my 9-year-old asked me if there would be kitties and dogs. We were going to a pet store, so I said that there undoubtedly would be kitties and dogs. I’ve never in my life been to a pet store that didn’t have cats and dogs…until we got to Pratt’s Pets in Glendale. It seems as though Pratt’s has nearly every pet imaginable, except for cats and dogs. They have their mascot, a rooster, that roams freely around the store. They have bunnies, gerbils, snakes, frogs, chicks, exotic birds, geese, ducks, tortoises,...
Lots of fun stuff going on at the Maricopa parks this week… Check out Lake Pleasant – This week they’re having Horses Cowboy Style 101, Gold Panning, a Cardboard Boat Regatta with prizes, Venomous Creatures Class and Reptile Feeding. Whew! Hohokam ruins, petroglyphs, Howl-oween Bash, Science Center pirate program, and more are featured at other parks. Enjoy being outdoors, and Be Inspired. =O) - Savannah Introducing….. The Desert! – Cave Creek Regional Park 08/19/2011 12:26 PM MST On 10/21/2011 9:00:00 AM: Are you new to the desert? Are you wondering what is out there in this amazing land?...
from Becky Ogden of Just Field Trips: Welcome to Just Field Trips! My name is Becky Ogden. I live in Peoria, and homeschool my 12 and 9-year-olds. I also have a 2-year-old. I am the creator of JFT. I started JFT because I wanted to be able to include friends from all over the Valley in field trips I planned, rather than being limited to one group. I’ve opened the group up to any homeschooler (who is actively homeschooling at least one school-aged, K-12, child) in the Valley because I believe that the more members we have, the more fun...
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