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Our 6 year old daughter is wildly creative and has a huge imagination. She is always making little creations from craft supplies, designing her own little books, staging videos on her camera and more. In her mind, there will never be enough costumes in our house to satisfy all the things she wants to act [...]
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Welcome to the Hip Homeschool Hop! Thank you for joining us today, Hip Friends…… Looking for homeschool supplies/books at a great price? Have something you’re not using and would like to sell? Visit our Hip List! Now, on to the HOP… Don’t forget to grab the Hip Homeschool Hop button located at the [...]
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Oh how I thought I might lose my mind after an hour and a half of math and only on problem #5 of…50! Yes, that’s right, he had been sitting at his desk for an hour and a half and was only on problem #5. I was only 23 years old, had little experience with [...]
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Hi! My name is Kelly. I want to first of all, thank Hip Homeschool Moms for giving me the opportunity to share about Sweetly Creative with all of you! Sweetly Creative provides digital products such as party collections, stationery, labels and wrappers for treats and more! I began this company just over a year ago [...]
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So you think you might want to homeschool … or not … or you just have no idea… I understand completely. I’m just finishing up my second year of homeschooling, so I’m hardly an expert. However, I do know a lot about starting to homeschool and all of the questions that go along with that. [...]
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I already knew I had a winner when I presented the Sonrise Stable series books Clothed With Thunder (book three) and Tender Mercies (book four) to Lily because there were horses involved. I really got a kick when Lily came running to me, after she had started reading the books, excitedly telling me that the children [...]
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Are you hosting a homeschool mom-friendly giveaway? Want a chance to win some fun stuff? Come check out . . . Giveaway Day! Bloggers & Giveaway Hosts: Come on in and link up those awesome giveaways homeschool moms would love to enter! Homeschool Moms: Have fun entering all the great giveaways listed here this week! [...]
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We all know that homeschooling has its advantages. But is homeschooling an only detrimental to your child’s development? I shared in my last post the many challenges of homeschooling an only child. However, the advantages of homeschooling just one far outweigh the obstacles you have to overcome. **Note: There are many advantages of homeschooling – [...]
[Continue reading...]Welcome to our Hip Homeschool Hop & Featured Blogger Day! Calling all homeschool bloggers……………….. We are currently accepting and scheduling featured bloggers for each Tuesday. If you have a homeschool-related blog and would like to be a ‘featured blogger’, please email Wendy at wendy@hiphomeschoolmoms.com. Be sure to put “featured blogger” in the subject line. Looking [...]
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For quite some time our homeschooling days have felt “off” as we’ve struggled daily to find a natural rhythm. I’ve suspected it was the schedule we were keeping, but wasn’t sure what to do about it. And then it happened…we woke up one weekend morning only to realize that a pipe between our kitchen and [...]
[Continue reading...]Anytime we have the opportunity to travel as a family, we are making lasting memories of fun and adventure. However, one of my favorite benefits of homeschooling is the chance to take a homeschool travel approach to the trip and capture the opportunity to learn on the road. My husband travels a lot for [...]
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Being a homeschool mom is a daily adventure, is it not? There is always another interesting experience for the family just around the corner, whether while teaching, running errands, doing laundry or chores, playing with friends or cooking dinner. Sometimes the bustle can make it difficult to stay on top of simple things like dinner [...]
[Continue reading...]Are you hosting a homeschool mom-friendly giveaway? Want a chance to win some fun stuff? Come check out . . . Giveaway Day! Bloggers & Giveaway Hosts: Come on in and link up those awesome giveaways homeschool moms would love to enter! Homeschool Moms: Have fun entering all the great giveaways listed here this week! [...]
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As the school year is winding down, many mothers I know who have children in public school are coming to me and asking me one question, “What are the benefits of being a homeschool family?” Most of them are asking me this out of frustration and disappointment in their child’s school. Others have young children [...]
[Continue reading...]Welcome to the Hip Homeschool Hop! We are starting something new this week, hip friends! We will be featuring a post from a fresh blogger each week along with our popular link-up. In the spirit of getting to know one another we hope you enjoy this new addition to our hop! Looking for [...]
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“I had a terrible nightmare last night……” my oldest son answered in response to my standard morning inquiry into the boys’ nightly sleep. “Uh-oh, what happened?” I asked, absolutely sure my nearly 11 year old son’s version of a ‘terrible nightmare’ looks something like a monster under the bed, falling off our bridge while fishing, or [...]
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This is an opportunity for the young readers in your life to travel back in time to the year 1857, where they will meet Libby, Caleb and Jordan. They will journey with these three young seekers as they try to answer the question, “What does freedom really mean?” These characters will have to make life-changing [...]
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Common conversation in our car: “Turn right here.” “Turn right?” “No turn left right now.” “Turn left?” “Right.” Aggghhh! The word that is pronounced [rahyt] is not only a homograph, (same spelling, two different meanings), it is also a homophone, and can have more than one spelling (write, right, wright, rite). If write is what [...]
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On April 19, 1860, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote: Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. To honor the 153rd anniversary of the poem—and the 238th anniversary of that [...]
[Continue reading...]Are you hosting a homeschool mom-friendly giveaway? Want a chance to win some fun stuff? Come check out . . . Giveaway Day! Bloggers & Giveaway Hosts: Come on in and link up those awesome giveaways homeschool moms would love to enter! Homeschool Moms: Have fun entering all the great giveaways listed here this week! [...]
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Don’t you just love the younger years when kids are filled with awe and wonder, and are pretty much satisfied as long as you tell them the same bed-time story over and over again? I love those years! The early years are also the ones when kids seem to be the most like sponges- soaking [...]
[Continue reading...]Welcome to the Hip Homeschool Hop! Thank you for joining us! Looking to meet like-minded Homeschooling Moms? Stop by and browse through our Ultimate Homeschool Blogroll, and add your page if you aren’t already listed there! Now, on to the HOP… Don’t forget to grab the Hip Homeschool Hop button located at [...]
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Sneakin’ in Science is a service that delivers new and exciting hands-on science experiments to your door each month. You have the option of choosing different subscription plans based upon your families personal needs. My family had the chance to review three of the Sneakin’ in Science experiments. This review will cover a dinosaur dig [...]
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We wouldn’t start our day without breakfast. After all, our kids need fuel to participate in school and stay on task. For many of us as adults, we wouldn’t think to start our day without coffee. At least I wouldn’t! But how often do we fail to start our school day in prayer? One morning [...]
[Continue reading...]Are you hosting a homeschool mom-friendly giveaway? Want a chance to win some fun stuff? Come check out . . . Giveaway Day! Bloggers & Giveaway Hosts: Come on in and link up those awesome giveaways homeschool moms would love to enter! Homeschool Moms: Have fun entering all the great giveaways listed here this week! [...]
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“Financial literacy,” you say? Then you think, “but my child is only five!” Truth be told it is never too early to start demonstrating and teaching your children how to manage their money. Unfortunately, I am pretty sure if you were making a list of important things to teach your children, financial literacy wouldn’t make [...]
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One of my very favorite things about homeschooling is the ability to tailor our methods and materials to fit our children’s unique needs and interests. My children aren’t forced to sit in a classroom for hours on end using books and materials that might not appeal to them at all. And if they come upon [...]
[Continue reading...]Welcome to the Hip Homeschool Hop! We hope you’ll link up and enjoy browsing through our friends’ posts! Looking for homeschool supplies/books at a great price? Have something you’re not using and would like to sell? Visit our Hip List! Now, on to the HOP… Don’t forget to grab the Hip Homeschool Hop [...]
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This morning I wanted to put on a tennis outfit, get in my BMW, drop the kids at private school, and head to the gym. Problem is, I don’t play tennis, own a BMW, or have anyone enrolled anywhere. For the gym membership? I quit this past year on New Years Day ( a story [...]
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It is time for another beautiful Lilla Rose flexi-clip giveaway from Jennifer and her girls! Pictured here at the end of a braid, an extra small flexi is perfect for securing a thick braid or wearing a “half-up” style. One of you will win this lovely extra small size Native Filigree Flower flexi-clip. Visit Jennifer’s [...]
[Continue reading...]Recently, while I was on Facebook, I clicked through to a link to a blog post entitled, 18 Reasons Why Doctors and Lawyers Homeschool Their Children. A doctor, who also happens to be a mother, wrote the post and began it by saying, “I’m going public today with a secret I’ve kept for a year [...]
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Math, Reading & Language, Science, Geography, and English Language Learning – Kindergarten to 6th Grade. Essential Skills Advantage offers professional grade learning tools based on leading educational research and best practices. Our programs are designed to be used as an additional resource to help a child build academic confidence and motivation. They provide the essential [...]
[Continue reading...]Looking for a place to enter fun family-friendly giveaways? You’re in luck! Welcome to the Hip Homeschool . . . Giveaway Day! Bloggers & Giveaway Hosts: Come on in and link up those awesome giveaways homeschool moms would love to enter! Homeschool Moms: Have fun entering all the great giveaways listed here this week! If [...]
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My nine-year-old son is very creative. He loves to make up and tell a good story. And he really enjoys drawing all of the characters and made up worlds that exist in his fictional tales. His pictures paint beautiful wordless stories that I continue encouraging him to draw. However, this year I asked him to [...]
[Continue reading...]It’s time for the Hip Homeschool Hop! Thank you for taking the time to join us! Looking to meet like-minded Homeschooling Moms? Stop by and browse through our Ultimate Homeschool Blogroll, and add your page if you aren’t already listed there! Now, on to the HOP… Don’t forget to grab the Hip [...]
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“What do I have to lose?” she asked herself as she handed her son a pen and paper. After months of butting heads, months of frustration, months of battling the strong will of her resistant learner, my friend was exhausted. As a homeschool mom, she wanted nothing more than to teach her son and ignite [...]
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The Sonrise Stable series is the heartwarming, continuing story of an extended homeschooling family as they live, learn, and love together. Mixing adventure, life lessons, and realistic horse experiences, the series is a must for readers who enjoy family values, Christian faith, and, of course, horses! One of Vicki Watson’s purposes in creating this series [...]
[Continue reading...]I think it is odd that I am a homeschooler and such a strong advocate of it no less. Why you ask? Well, I was one of those anti-homeschooling people who thought that it was the height of arrogance to think that anybody could give her child a better education than someone with a four-year [...]
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[Continue reading...]Are you hosting a homeschool mom-friendly giveaway? Want a chance to win some fun stuff? Come check out . . . Giveaway Day! Bloggers & Giveaway Hosts: Come on in and link up those awesome giveaways homeschool moms would love to enter! Homeschool Moms: Have fun entering all the great giveaways listed here this week! [...]
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I just spent the last few days on what seemed like my death bed only because I cannot remember being that sick in a while. Under normal circumstances, I would have taken some medicine and called it a night each night that I just slept hoping to feel better the next morning. The only problem [...]
[Continue reading...]Welcome to the Hip Homeschool Hop! There’s snow on the ground at this Hip Mama’s house….. Here’s hoping it’s more Spring-y where you are! Looking for homeschool supplies/books at a great price? Have something you’re not using and would like to sell? Visit our Hip List! Now, on to the HOP… Don’t forget [...]
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With winter coming to an end and spring upon us we are also entering a new season in our homeschools. It’s time to recognize the progress we have made. Perhaps we are a little behind and have not been able to accomplish all that we have planned. But does that mean that we have not [...]
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For more than a half century, little Christian and Christiana have captivated children in their quest to reach the Celestial City. A journey frought with danger, pitfalls, and temptation, this retelling of John Bunyan’s classic allegory, Pilgrim’s Progress, celebrates more than 60 years. Your children will experience the journey like never before, with fresh illustrations [...]
[Continue reading...]Recently, I had the opportunity to answer a question that a fellow homeschooling mama asked in a group of which I am a part. She wanted to know what a ‘typical’ day looks like for our 4-5 year olds. Below is the response I gave: “Currently, we are not officially homeschooling our 4-year-old. She spends [...]
[Continue reading...]Are you hosting a homeschool mom-friendly giveaway? Want a chance to win some fun stuff? Come check out . . . Giveaway Day! Bloggers & Giveaway Hosts: Come on in and link up those awesome giveaways homeschool moms would love to enter! Homeschool Moms: Have fun entering all the great giveaways listed here this week! [...]
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Your family is simple – mom, dad, child. Homeschooling an only child has to be simple, right? You can get through all of the daily assignments without having to worry about teaching the other siblings, or bouncing a baby in your lap. This isn’t quite the case. Instead, homeschoolers of an only child face [...]
[Continue reading...]Welcome to the Hip Homeschool Hop! An April hop, no less? Time does fly! Looking for homeschool supplies/books at a great price? Have something you’re not using and would like to sell? Visit our Hip List! Now, on to the HOP… Don’t forget to grab the Hip Homeschool Hop button located at the [...]
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About two years ago, we uprooted our family and made a cross-country move from a mostly-suburban, part rural football town in the deep South to a small but eclectic city out on the coast of California – where jazz festivals and urban farmer’s markets abound. As we transitioned from homeschooling cross country, I found out [...]
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I was excited to try out the We Choose Virtues Homeschool Kit with our two girls ages 6 and 3. I have seen this product online and mentioned on various blogs so I wanted to see how it would fit in with our daily activities. What is included in the Homeschool Kit? Reusable tools: Parenting [...]
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