Monthly Archives: June 2007

A quick note…

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Charity

about the curriculum reviews. You may have noticed that I include a link to purchase the products I review. I am not being paid for these reviews – not that there’s anything wrong with that. This is something I have … Continue reading →

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Curriculum Review: Learning Language Arts Through Literature

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Charity

Our first year of homeschooling, we used grammar, phonics, and spelling workbooks for Language Arts. The kids hated it. They found the daily drills boring. Even worse, not a day went by when I didn’t hear, “Why do we need … Continue reading →

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Finding Balance

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Charity

Dana from Principled Discovery had a very insightful post up the other day called Finding Purpose. She concludes, I think the feminist movement has denied a good deal of what it is to be a woman by denying the innate … Continue reading →

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Carnival of Homeschooling

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Charity

This week’s Carnival of Homeschooling is up at Homeschool Hacks.

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Carnival Time

Posted on June 25, 2007 by Charity

The Carnival of Principled Government is up at Principled Discovery.

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The Birds and the Hornets

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Charity

We saw the most amazing thing this morning out on our back porch. A Blue Jay landed on a planter that hangs on the porch railing with a piece of hornets’ nest in his mouth, set it down and began … Continue reading →

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Walking by Faith

Posted on June 22, 2007 by Charity

I’ve had the song, “Walk by Faith,” by Jeremy Camp, in my head for the past few days. I’ve known that song for years, we even have the CD, but I have never really thought about it much. Then a … Continue reading →

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Blogs, Blogs, Blogs

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Charity

I added a few more blogs to the blog roll. First up, Venomous Kate‘s softer side, I Think Therefore I Blog, is under Homeschool Blogroll, although I am not sure whether it belongs there because I haven’t been reading it … Continue reading →

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New Template, Again

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Charity

After days of re-designing template after template with my own graphics and special touches, only to decide that it wasn’t quite right, I have my new template. I like it, but I am not the one reading, so if you … Continue reading →

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U Comment, I Follow

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Charity

I decided to turn off the “no follow” feature in my comments, so that – if I did it right – when you leave a comment, your link will get picked up by the powers that be on the internets. … Continue reading →

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