Do you celebrate Columbus Day in your homeschool?

Posted October 7, 2011 in Discussion, History, homeschooling
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In elementary school, I learned a little poem that I’ve remembered since.   In August 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. October 12th they sighted land, And set their feet upon new sand. There were lots of other facts regarding Christopher Columbus’ adventures and questions raised throughout my school years about whether Columbus thought the Read More

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Constitution Day

Posted September 15, 2011 in History, homeschooling, Resources
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September 17th marks the date thirty-nine delegates to the Constitutional Convention held their final meeting and signed our Constitution. It’s certainly a date worth celebrating. It’s definitely a date worth understanding what led to it, as well as what followed.   image credit: archives.gov   Ideas for Constitution Day Lessons Read the Constitution Show your Read More

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Georgia Homeschool Compliance Reporting

Posted August 7, 2011 in homeschooling, Resources

A few friends in my local homeschool group told me about an e-filing service available to 121 districts in Georgia for homeschoolers to electronically file their compliance documents such as declaration of intent and monthly attendance reporting. While I’ve been going the traditional paper, pen, and snail mail way of filing our paperwork since we Read More

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Lessons with Legos

Posted July 25, 2011 in Discussion, homeschooling
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Whenever Little Buddy gets a dollar, it is immediately burning a hole in his pocket to go buy the latest Lego he’s been eying. From the boxes full of 100s of bricks to the Star Wars sets with more bricks than I could ever imagine and his Mindstorms, he loves them all. He loves them Read More

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Summer Schedules

Posted June 15, 2011 in Discussion, homeschooling
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  Last summer, we took about two or three weeks off as our summer break as we finished second grade and went into third. That gave me time to finalize all of the reports for our permanent records, clear away items that we wouldn’t be using for our third grade year and getting all of Read More

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