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Home Educating

November 14, 2008: Excellent (and affordable) home education resources for Kindergarten
Comments: 17 | Categories: Frugality , Home Educating

I just love it when I find affordable resources that really work for both Abbie (my almost 4 year old) and I, and these past couple of weeks I have loved what we've been using, so I though I would share them with you.Though Abbie is not quite 4 (her...

October 24, 2008: Blogiversary Q&A- Round 5
Comments: 8 | Categories: A bit of this, a bit of that , Home Educating , Our family

I've been working frantically to get these questions answered before the end of the week, and I've finally succeeded! I hope you've enjoyed getting to know a little bit more about me, and maybe your curiosity has been somewhat satisfied... if not, you know where to find me! :) Alisa...

June 20, 2008: Learning resources for little ones
Comments: 9 | Categories: Books , Children , Home Educating

"When are we going to do Learning Time, Mama?"This is almost a daily question in our home, from my eager 3 1/2 year old daughter. She just adores the time that we spend each afternoon, reading, studying, discussing, creating, learning, and most of all, enjoying! I received the sage advice...

March 12, 2008: Protecting our liberties as homeschoolers
Comments: 0 | Categories: Home Educating

I'm sure that most of you have heard of the recent ruling by the California Supreme Court, that homeschooling is unconstitutional. As most of you know, I am not even an American, and yet I am deeply affected and concerned by this ruling. Back in the 1980's, my mother-in-law was...

January 9, 2008: M is for making mommy proud
Comments: 5 | Categories: Home Educating

We had a momentous moment in our family yesterday (gosh, all these m's, such alliteration). My Abbie read her very first word: In our learning times (the phrase we use for our "school" work), we've been casually working on letters sounds, using the methods from Ruth Beechick's A Home Start...

December 1, 2007: My Mommy, my teacher
Comments: 1 | Categories: Books , Home Educating

My little guy is having a hard time with teething today, it seems, so I thought I'd just post a quick review of a beautiful little book that Abbie was given for her birthday last week. It's called My mommy, my teacher and it is written and illustrated by Johannah...