Traditional, Boxed, Complete Homeschooling Curriculum and How It Worked for Us!
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Traditional, Boxed, Complete Homeschooling Curriculum and How It Worked for Us!

My family chose to use a full curriculum in our homeschool, and we didn’t deviate. We homeschooled for over 20 years and successfully graduated 4 children without changing our base curriculum. We found this to be a great relief,  and it gave us more time to be a family. How did we do it? First…

Just Desserts: My Son Teaches Me How to Teach
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Just Desserts: My Son Teaches Me How to Teach

I got my just desserts, my comeuppance…all courtesy of my pre-teen son! That day—way back in my second year of homeschooling—it came as a stunning newsflash that my son wasn’t nearly as impressed as I with my teaching of history… Back then, you see, I would dutifully prepare by pre-reading the teacher notes in my…

Reading Eggs FREE 4 Week Trial
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Reading Eggs FREE 4 Week Trial

Get your child using Reading Eggs today and enjoy the multi award-winning online reading program for 3- to 13-year-olds. To sign up right now, just click here! And don’t forget to TELL YOUR FRIENDS so their children can also try Reading Eggs for free! Here are a few quotes from moms in the Hip Homeschool Moms Facebook…

Reading Eggs FREE 4 Week Trial
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Reading Eggs FREE 4 Week Trial

Get your child using Reading Eggs today and enjoy the multi award-winning online reading program for 3-13 year olds. Sign up today at  http://readingeggs.com/hhmoms/! And don’t forget to TELL YOUR FRIENDS so their children can also try Reading Eggs for free! Here are a few quotes from moms in the Hip Homeschool Moms Facebook Community who have…

How to Promote STEM Education in Your Homeschool
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How to Promote STEM Education in Your Homeschool

STEM education has to do with teaching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. These subjects often cause those who homeschool or who are considering homeschooling to worry that they won’t be able to succeed–that they won’t be able to educate their children well in these subjects. Today, though, teaching these subjects doesn’t have to be a frightening prospect! There are…

Oak Meadow Curriculum Sale and Giveaway
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Oak Meadow Curriculum Sale and Giveaway

Yearning for the educational freedom to explore your interests, talents, and passions? Oak Meadow offers experiential, progressive curriculum for kindergarten through grade 12. And each grade or course includes a teacher’s manual with 36 weekly lesson plans that cover all subject areas and include a variety of assignments, activities, readings, and supplementary activities. (Supplementary materials…

Standard Deviants Accelerate – Review & Giveaway!
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Standard Deviants Accelerate – Review & Giveaway!

A Note to Our Readers: At the bottom of this review, you will find information about some changes that are coming very soon and that will make this program even better suited to homeschooling families! You can also find more information for parents by clicking here. At the time of this writing, the changes are…

Veritas Press Self-Paced History Course Review & Giveaway
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Veritas Press Self-Paced History Course Review & Giveaway

History is one of our absolute favorite subjects to study in our home. As a classically-eclectic family, we study history from a chronological perspective. We explore eras of history in cycles that we repeat at the grammar (elementary), dialectic (junior high), and rhetoric (high school) levels. This school year we are taking an exciting journey…

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Thrively Review: A Free Resource for Making Learning Fun!

The kids and I had loads of fun reviewing Thrively! Thrively is a fun assessment and delight-driven database of educational activities for students and parents. Here’s some basic information about how it works. You can also find this information on Thrively’s site. Thrively is completely free! You simply go to their site and create an…

Compass Classroom Spring Sale!
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Compass Classroom Spring Sale!

Compass Classroom makes video homeschool curriculum that’s fun for kids, smart for moms, and easy for everyone! The Compass team is made up of video producers that also happen to be homeschool dads. They decided to merge those two interests and began producing visual curriculum using top-notch veteran teachers who instruct in a fun and engaging…