Healthy Living from the Start: A Health Curriculum for Grades K-3 Review
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Healthy Living from the Start: A Health Curriculum for Grades K-3 Review

Do your kids know what do during a lightning storm? What about if there is a fire? Have you talked about who they can turn to if they need help when you aren’t around? Or what to expect when someone they love dies? It’s not much fun to think about these things, but we all…

Celebrating Amelia Earhart ~ A Unit Study
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Celebrating Amelia Earhart ~ A Unit Study

July 24th is Amelia Earhart Day. A Kansas-born female who was interested in women’s rights, Amelia kept a scrapbook of women who were successful in male-dominated fields, and she would later go on to become one of these women herself. Who Was Amelia Earhart? Amelia Earhart was a female pilot born on July 24th, 1897….

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…

Get Outdoors and Enjoy an ABC Nature Walk
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Get Outdoors and Enjoy an ABC Nature Walk

    In our family, we love spending time outside.  As much as the children enjoying nature walks, however, at times they need some encouragement to get out and get moving.  For this, I’ve enjoyed using various specific natures studies (everything from Birds of Prey to Trees). Something fun we tried this week was a…

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…