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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 [...]
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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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“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 [...]
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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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Huddletrip is a leading provider of comprehensive group travel booking services. If you are planning a group trip, regardless of size, we invite you to take advantage of our expertise, trusted contacts, innovative tools, and our professional Trip Coaches who custom design every charter package. Moreover, you will save time and energy by leveraging the [...]
[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 [...]
[Continue reading...]If you’ve chosen to homeschool then inevitably you’ve already been confronted with the concern by family, friends, neighbors, and yes, even strangers– {gasp!} “But what about “the socialization”? As if by keeping your children out of the classroom and interacting firsthand with the world in some way forces us homeschoolers into a weird societal black [...]
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Tools for Education At Caffeinated Rhino, our goal is to make your life easier by providing high quality software tools that organize and simplify homeschool education. I started out the new year with one goal in mind. One resolution. I’ve been working since then to keep it. My resolution was to get more organized. I [...]
[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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Have you ever had a day when your usual homeschool routine isn’t working? Have you ever felt like an entire homeschool day has escaped you and nothing has been done? Perhaps it was due to a long day of sibling rivalry or clashing personalities between teacher and student. Or maybe it was simply because no [...]
[Continue reading...]Welcome to the Hip Homeschool Hop! Happy Hop Day, friends! 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 the [...]
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I’ve had SO many people give me the “real world” argument lately. “Eventually, they’ll need to go to school.” “We want them to be prepared for the ‘real world’ and college, and able to work in the work force.” Many of us homeschoolers have now come to let these comments roll off us like water [...]
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Several weeks ago, a box filled with reading, writing and math curriculum arrived on my doorstep. I was so excited and couldn’t wait to open it up as these core subjects have been on the forefront of my mind more and more lately as the subjects I have dedicated to working on with my boys [...]
[Continue reading...]We are very fortunate to be able to take several trips each year as a family. It’s nice to be able to travel when most kids are in school. The lines are shorter and things are generally less crowded. I used to worry about taking all that “time off” from school, but over the years [...]
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Historical Conquest: The Journey Through Time is an epic card game where players can create personalized societies with key players from history and battle them one against another; anyone, anywhere, anytime. Each card is complete with: fantastic illustrations of people, places, events in history; abilities in the game according to the abilities they had in [...]
[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 have three sons. Cuties, right?? That’s so not the point of this article but they are good lookin’ kids, yes? These boys have the same parents, they are being raised with the same values, they love the same God, all three live in the same house, they share the same bedroom, sit together in the [...]
[Continue reading...]Welcome to the Hip Homeschool Hop! Have a hoppy Tuesday, 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 very bottom [...]
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With four children {one of whom is a toddler and part monkey}, one dog, six chickens, seven fish, and a husband in my house, sometimes it can be a bit crazy. I am sure you can relate! I have to admit one of my biggest struggles with homeschooling is forgetting to teach. There are so [...]
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Everyone knows quality homeschooling materials can be expensive. Whether you’re a teacher, a parent, a homeschooler, or an adult learner-everyone deserves access to great education products without breaking the bank. That’s exactly what motivated the founders of Educents.com to take the leap and create a flash deal site focused purely on high quality, affordable learning [...]
[Continue reading...]Scrapbooks. I bet you’ve got them. I know I do. I’m not the greatest at scrapbooking, but I do have a book for each of my boys that documents growth and firsts. You know – those “baby books.” My boys love looking at theirs. I know I still enjoy looking at mine! As I thought [...]
[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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The above phrase is Latin and means, “I will either find a way or make one,” which is a good mantra to have. It is the keep-on-keeping-on of Latin phrases and one I might be able to pronounce correctly in the near future! Why? Let me tell you. In December I wrote a post called Homeschooling [...]
[Continue reading...]Welcome to the Hip Homeschool Hop! One of our favorite days of the week! Thank you for coming alongside us today! 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 [...]
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With Easter fast upon us, I’m certain that cotton ball sales are on the rise. How many cotton ball lambs will be glued in haste by little hands and presented with pride to grandparents and Sunday School teachers? But that’s the nature of so many holidays. They invite us to tear open the bag of [...]
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All it takes is reading one story a day to or with a child to promote literacy, creativity, strengthen the family and to have fun with children, which is the mission of Knowonder. Knowonder founder, Phillip Chipping, knows the value of reading to children daily, which he experienced as a child with his parents and [...]
[Continue reading...]I joined my local homeschool association when my daughters were still toddlers, eager to meet experienced moms and begin learning all I could well before I had to make it “official.” As soon as I joined Facebook, I sought other homeschool moms there, and I found online homeschool communities, too. I also started following homeschool-oriented blogs. And through all those [...]
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