It looks like education officials in Mississippi are itching to add some regulation to that state’s homeschool laws, according to this article in The Clarion-Ledger.
I live in a highly regulated state, where we must submit curriculum and year end assessments. We also have to prove via official documentation that we have legal custody of [...]

The snow is all melted, so we have been crafting our tails off the last couple of days!
For those of you just tuning in, our previous Kids Christmas Crafts are posted here, here, and here.
Craft 7:
This is a classic. We used to make these when I was in elementary school.

Cut strips from construction paper. [...]

The Carnival of Homeschooling is up over at Apollos Academy. This is week 50! Can you believe it?
I haven’t had a chance to read it all yet, but it looks like a good one.
Check it out!

Finally, for the first time since I started blogging, all of my blogs are under the same account. I merged my Blogger profile with my Blogger beta profile. The only change here is that my name is now listed as Charity, instead of Crafty Mama. I’m still crafty,though, in more ways than [...]

Spunky did a post a little while ago about the “unschooling conspiracy” in the media. With homeschooling growing in acceptance and popularity, the new target seems to be unschooling, which is often portrayed as a method that lends itself to a lack of structure and education.
I thought I would share this story that I [...]

With the new snow outside, the kids do not want to do any crafts! All they want to do is play in the snow. Until the novelty wears off, I thought I would post a mama craft.
I made this scarf for Little E.

The pattern is fairly simple. I am by no means [...]

December 5:
A free craft time resulted in a Santa made from a toilet paper tube and construction paper, courtesy of Big E.

Here are some directions from Family Fun for a similar craft.
December 6:
Classic paper snowflakes.

We were wishing for snow here at Crafty Mama’s Homeschool, so what better than paper snowflakes hung in the window.

As you [...]

I’ve always been conflicted about doing religious posts on either of my blogs. It is not my intent to become one of those blogs that is really only meant for like-minded Christians and that is what ends up happening a lot of the time to bloggers who do religious posts.
Sometimes, though, I have something [...]

This is a sad day. My favorite homeschool blog - Spunky Homeschool - is no more.
But all good things must come to an end sometime. (Assuming you thought Spunky Homeschool as a good thing.) And today is the day for me to leave Spunky Homeschool behind and move on to new opportunities.
I will [...]

Carnival of Homeschooling from the Land of Lincoln is ready to read over at the blog Corn and Oil.