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Previews of the 20 most recent posts from contributing homeschool blogs

• Jul 30, Blog Carnival for Homeschooled Kids #17 2010-07-30 via Homeschooling-ideas Blog Yes - the latest blog carnival is now up. Can you believe we are at the 17th edition! This month the carnival is not only linking to blogs by homeschooled children - it is also being hosted by one! The carnival has been put together by Kitten - and you can find it at Carnival #17 - 30th July 2010. Do leave Kitten a comment to let her know what you think. Didn't she do a great job of hosting? The next carnival will be held on September 30th, 2010. Hope to see you then. Read more...
• I Write Like . . . 2010-07-30 via Confessions of an Organized Homeschool Mom I write likeDan BrownI Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! Go figure, since I write non-fiction and he writes fiction. Unless, of course, you're a famous publisher reading my blog and you now want to publish my books! True confession for today: I followed this link from my friend April's blog. Who do you write like? Click here to find out. Read more...
• Lazy Crazy Summer Days 2010-07-30 via Eclectic Homeschooling Our summer days may not be filled with soda, and pretzels, and beer, but they are lazy with a little bit of crazy thrown in.  During our summer break we are unschooling.  For unschooling I simply provide access to educational materials.  I'm not requiring any reading or that they even look at the materials.   Every day is different, but this morning our time went something like this: 8 year old:  Completed several origami projects from a book he borrowed from the library yesterday. Read more...
• Making the Best of a Bad Song 2010-07-30 via NerdFamily Blog Ok, this is one of those songs that may not be very good but totally sticks in your head. When I saw this I laughed so hard I started tearing up (what can I say, doesn?t take much sometimes;). Now I need to go watch the original Star Trek series again!Related posts:Lost, You Better Not Make Me MadAfter years of hearing how great it is, NerdDad and...2 Great Nerd Things That Go Good Together!Who wouldn?t love Mythbusters and Star Trek together?!?!... Read more...
• Handwriting Without Tears Home Schooling Kindergarten Curriculum 2010-07-30 via Homeschool Savings Blog Last year I tried Handwriting Without Tears for my home schooling kindergarten aged child. Read more...
• How To Add Vietnam to Geography For Gifted Young Kids 2010-07-30 via Crack the Egg A few years ago when we lived in Pennsylvania, I happened upon this book at our library.  I read it aloud to the kids and we laughed, cried, and thoroughly enjoyed this glimpse into rural Vietnamese village life and a very large water buffalo named Tank.  It is Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam by Huynh Quang Nhuong.  A job change and move later caused me to forget about it until I happened upon it again, but this time in the library where we currently live. Read more...
• Salt Lake City Temple Square ? Family Search 2010-07-30 via Pass The Torch We still had one day before we would take my husband and son to the Salt Lake City airport and my daughter and I would continue on to California. It was raining anyway, so we thought we?d spend the day in Salt Lake City at Temple Square. It?s a beautiful section of the city with [... Read more...
• Our Poms Look So Sweet? 2010-07-30 via 5 Kids and a Dog   They do look so sweet when they?re sleeping. Read more...
• Washin? them dishes, feedin? them swine... 2010-07-30 via Tough Mama We have ditched the dishwashing detergent and with it phosphates, plastic bottles, bleach, other crazy chemiclas, and expense and instead have opted for our own simple concoction of one part borax to one part baking soda and white vinegar in the rinse. We also make sure ther is hot water in the tap before running the washer. One of my friends used this, but wasn't happy with it because of her dishwasher. Read more...
• Crazy Milk Trick : It really works 2010-07-30 via An Organized Mess Often times we try an experiment  and it doesn't really work the way it says it will.  Well, we tried this one and it really does work.  Apparently, it works better with fuller fat milk. Read more...
• The Government Owns The Rain 2010-07-30 via Consent Of The Governed State Property?Apparently one cannot collect the rainwater in Colorado, Utah or Washington State.They claim that the rainwater belongs to someone else.Diverting it (i.e. collecting it) is a crime and you need a valid "water right".It's illegal in Utah to divert rainwater without a valid water right, and Mark Miller of Mark Miller Toyota, found this out the hard way. Read more...
• Arizona State Study 2010-07-30 via Layers of Learning Arizona was made a state February 14, 1912.  Before that it had belonged to the Hopi, Navajo, Apache, and 19 other tribes.  Then it was claimed by the Spanish in the mid 1500's, being actually inhabited first by missionaries and then by ranchers.  Then when Mexico gained its independence in 1822 the territory became Mexican. Read more...
• Haven't done a blog quiz in a while. 2010-07-30 via My Domestic Church You are 90% on the ball! Wow! You can give the Pope a run for his money. Just memorize every saint and you will have nothing left to learn. Read more...
• Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner 2010-07-30 via Homespun Light Book Review: Stone Fox by John Reynolds GardinerI read this book aloud to my kids today, and let me tell you. I was a blubbering fool. I used to roll my eyes and laugh when my mom cried at emotional stories. Now I'm her.Except this time, Bubs (nearly 7) wasn't rolling his eyes. He was crying, too.Are you familiar with this very short chapter book? Here's a brief overview:Little Willy may only be ten, but that doesn't mean he can't run a potato farm. His grandfather has become very ill. Read more...
• Review: This Means War: Equipping Christian Families for Fostercare or Adoption 2010-07-30 via Raising Real Men Don?t miss the contest at the bottom of this post, friends!Although we have never adopted, when author Cheryl Ellicott offered me a review copy of This Means War: Equipping Christian Families for Fostercare or Adoption, I jumped at the chance! You see, I had read the first chapter of the book as a sample she offered a group of fellow authors. I had seldom read anything so honest and practical about the spiritual warfare a Christian family can face and I was dying to read the rest of the book. Read more...
• Watch waterfalls of pity roar... 2010-07-30 via Tough Mama We finally took a hike that was not ALL sunshine and waterfalls and rainbows. This one was hard. We hiked about 6 miles round trip with the hopes that the falls would be glorious. They were not. Eli is literally the toughest 4 year old I know. He hiked pretty much the entire time with high spirits. Pretty much the entire time. But not all of it. Read more...
• On Fellowship 2010-07-30 via The Accidental Homeschooler When I started out homeschooling, I was part of a Classical Conversations community (CC).  Matty was in first grade.  I thought he was so big.  Molly was in the nursery or in my arms.  We were so small.  We still are, really, but then again...a lot has changed.  The first year I was just a mom, a participant with babe in arms and child in class.  By the second term I was weary and losing the vision for why I wanted to educate classically in the first place. Read more...
• Mr. Emerson?s Wife by Amy Belding Brown 2010-07-30 via Semicolon A few months ago, I first read Best Intentions by Emily Listfield about the disintegration of trust in a marriage and the slippery slope to infidelity. Then I read The Other Side of the Lake by Mary Lawson about adultery and sibling rivalry. To complete the unplanned trilogy, I read Mr. Emerson?s Wife, in which said wife, Lidian Jackson Emerson, is torn between her duty to her husband, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and her love for young Henry David Thoreau. Read more...
• Larryboy, Can I Borrow Your Plungers? 2010-07-29 via A Pondering Heart I went to bed last night with laundry on my mind. We haven?t had a washer at our disposal for nearly a month. Though we had some very sweet friends let us use theirs several times, everything  has been handwashed? or should I say plunged (a friend let mom know a toilet plunger works best for handwashing ? brilliant!). I was not looking forward to rushing to handwash my clothes, which were nearly all dirty and then have to wait for them to hang dry. Read more...
• Time4learning Online Homeschool Curriculum Review 2010-07-29 via Homeschool Savings Blog Extremely busy mom of five special needs children shares why Time4learning online homeschool curriculum works with her family... Read more...
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