Recycling: Christmas Cardboard to Crafts
Photo Source: The Merrythought By Heather Sanders This year, unlike almost every Christmas in the past several years, I did not have the majority of my gifts purchased by Thanksgiving. I committed...
View ArticleCommunity Question: Considering Homeschool for 8th-grader
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View ArticleHand Lettering: A Quiet Yearning
By Heather Sanders When I first began penning my ABCs on one of the many Big Chief tablets my parents would buy me, I obsessed over each letter. Even in Kindergarten, I remember practicing my letters;...
View ArticleIt is 2015, and I Have No Homeschool Resolutions
By Heather Sanders Yesterday, as I stepped out on the front porch to receive a phone call, I glanced inside and couldn’t help but smile. Since our move in September, the face of our homeschool has...
View ArticleCommunity Question: Milestone Resources
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View ArticleUnsanctioned Field Trips
By Heather Sanders You know those days when your kids are weary of writing essays for English? The days when they would rather shave their heads than figure out another missing slope in Algebra? Or...
View ArticleChoices
By Heather Sanders Two weeks ago the kids attended our church’s Winter Retreat. With temperatures dipping into the upper 20s and lower 30s, and the weekend promising equally cold weather with cloudy...
View ArticleCommunity Question: 16 Years of Homeschooling. Now what?
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View ArticleNight Owls, Early Birds, and Homeschooling
By Heather Sanders I am not a night owl. My favorite days begin before the sun rises and require little brain power once it sets, which is why I am thankful the kids are of an age where they can be...
View ArticleHomeschool Documentary Review: Class Dismissed
By Heather Sanders Back in 2011, Kristen Chase wrote a blog post about the documentary, Class Dismissed, when the movie’s producers were seeking their first round of funding. The movie did receive the...
View ArticleCommunity Question: Prepping for Preschool
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View ArticleWord Nerd Quiz: Friday Night!
If you love vocabulary…if interesting words make your heart flutter…if you think a nice, juicy word is as beautiful as a prairie sunset or a Basset Hound’s ears…drop by Friday night and try your hand...
View ArticleWORD NERD Quiz: Enter Now!
Time for the big Word Nerd quiz! (WARNING: This might be the hardest Word Nerd quiz yet. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya…) TO ENTER To enter the quiz, answer the questions at the end of this post....
View ArticleWord Nerd Quiz: Answers and Winners!
Wow, great job everyone! It was a tough quiz and many of you held your own. Here are the stats, answers, and winners! STATS 2,249 people took the quiz. 151 people scored 100% (this was a tough one!)...
View ArticleWhy I enrolled in Algebra.
By Heather Sanders Two weeks into this school year, I called Alpha Omega Publications and requested they enroll me in the same online Algebra 1 course Meredith was taking. No one was as surprised as I...
View ArticleCommunity Question: Chronic Fatigue & Homeschooling
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View ArticleMaking “room” for homeschooling.
By Heather Sanders Some people have dry erase boards; we have sweaty, single-paned, old-as-the-hills windows. And you know what? It’s fine. We no longer have room for dry erase boards, bulletin...
View ArticleCommunity Question: Starting a small school.
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View ArticleMean Ol’ Schoolmarm: Supposedly vs. Supposably
By Heather Sanders It would be so much easier if I could write that supposably wasn’t a word and encourage you to erase it from your vocabulary entirely: the problem is, supposably IS a word. At...
View ArticleI’m Always Evaluating. You?
By Heather Sanders At this time every year, I begin thinking about the upcoming school year. Some of it has to do with the emails dropping into my inbox. There are an increasing number of parents...
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