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How to Turn Your Teen’s Interests into High School Credit

This site contains affiliate links that benefit my family if you purchase through them. Read my full disclosure here.When my son was thirteen, his Kindle e-reader broke. Rather than buying a new e-reader, he decided to replace the screen on his Kindle. He ordered a screen on eBay and soon had his Kindle in working order. It didn’t take long…
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in Homeschool· Life Unplugged

30 Days of Spring Nature Activities- April

I believe the best learning is done away from screens and workbooks so I’ve created a 30 day nature activity calendar for the month of April. You can use the April nature calendar alone or use it along with the activity pack I’ve created. The activity pack includes a fun nature challenge sheet to fill in with stickers that match…
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Book Spotlight: The Bark of the Bog Owl

We recently listened to The Bark of the Bog Owl by Jonathan Rogers on a trip. The book is part one in the Wilderking Trilogy. After listening to it, we quickly ended up buying the rest of the series. It was a long trip, so it was a good thing we had a three-book series to occupy the hours. The…
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March Nature Calendar & Nature Challenge Activity Pack

Here’s a March Nature Calendar with thirty-one days of spring nature activities. I think you’ll enjoy completing these activities with your child. I’ve also created a printable activity pack that goes with it. The pack includes “badges” for each of the activities that you can print out on 1″ round labels. (Make sure there are 63 labels per sheet. Sometimes…
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Choosing Joy as a Homeschool Mom (Part 2)

Society has made us feel that our kids need to be involved in everything to be successful–; academics, music, sports, science, math, writing, foreign language, you name it—they need to be doing it and and they need to be doing it well.
But God has made each of our children differently. They each excel in their own unique gifts.

in Family· Homeschool

Choosing Joy as a Homeschool Mom (Part 1)

This is the time of year that a lot of homeschool moms feel like giving up. Whether it’s the cold dreary days, or the endless sickness, or maybe it’s the children (or the mom!) just ready to be done with the year, come February homeschooling can become a drudgery for many of us.