Homeschool Giveaways

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Would you love to win a $100 gift certificate just in time for Christmas? You can enter to win that much money from Homeschool Giveaways today!! All you need is an email address. No fancy, complicated hoops to jump through, just enter your email address and be on your way. Enter using the image below!! […]

Homeschool Record Keeping

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One of the most likely over-whelming aspects of large family homeschooling is record keeping. With lots of children come lots of papers, projects, and grades. And with the law (at least in my home state of Missouri) telling us that we have to keep records for each year and count each hour that we do […]

The Homemaker’s Friend

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       If you have been reading here long you know how much this large family homeschool mom love The Homemaker’s Friend yearly planner. Well, the 2015 edition is out and ready for purchase. Again the cover is breathtakingly beautiful with a wonderful Biblical reminder to enhance your life each time you pick up the planner. Here is […]

How to Create a Self-Motivated Learner – Part 1

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A 12 year old college student. A 2 year old that knows his alphabet. A 3 year old that is reading. A 6 year old that can recite the US Presidents in order. A highly intelligent child is the dream of all parents. No one wants to feel as if their child is second rate […]

Large Family Homeschooling – Daily Schedule

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Our large family homeschooling schedule seems to change quite often around here still as we are continually blessed with new children. Each time I just about feel that I am getting into a good routine and we breaking free from the confines of naps and crawling and countless nursing sessions, God blesses again and here […]

St Louis Magic House

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The Sid the Science Kid exhibit is at the St Louis Magic House right now and it is SOOOO much fun. My children and I spent the day enjoying this special exhibit and the rest of the Magic House. You can explore the world of electricity, art, music, community life and more at this wonderful […]

Homeschooling Year Round

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What does this homeschooling year round thing look like anyway? Don’t you need a break, I can hear you ask? And for many years I followed the “typical” schedule of schooling nine months out of the year because I thought that I needed a break too. But then I realized how much ground we lost each […]

Memory Verses for Children

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Here are some of my favorite memory verses for children. We start with these verses when our children are ready to memorize Scripture usually around age 4 or 5, though it is different with each child. We are passionate in our home about memory verses for children. I truly feel that if children grow up hiding […]