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Best Teaching Tool Ever!

Last week, as I was using this little thingy for the bazillionth time, I realized I love it just as much now as I did the first time I ever used it with a student- 20 years ago!- and I thought maybe I should share this little goodie with you. If you have ever tried to teach a child to tell time, you know that it can be a LITtle frustrating (for them, of course.)  There’s a short hand, long hand, the three is also a fifteen, the six means thirty, and then there’s the problem…

And the winner is…

  Lara Leger! Congratulations to Lara, who won the Giveaway for this book.  🙂 I wish everybody could have won, because I want everyone to have it. If you are still interested in owning this book, I have listed some links where you can find it: http://www.themysteryofhistory.info/volumeI.shtml and http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/easy_find?Ntt=mystery+of+history+volume+1&N=0&Ntk=keywords&action=Search&Ne=0&event=ESRCQ&nav_search=1&cms=1 Also, there are companion products, as well as volumes II and III (and soon…

A Way of Life

Sometimes I think about all the scriptures I want the children to learn, and I think, there’s no way.  They should’ve learned so much more by now.  There are so many more they need to memorize. I notice they don’t recite their multiplication facts quite as snappily as I’d like.  And I worry a little. I think about the list of US presidents I want them to know, and while we’re at it, the vp’s to boot.  And I hear the clock ticking. I flip through my favorite…

Homeschooling is…

Every now and then there will be a moment in my day when I see something that makes me stop and say, “That is homeschooling.”  It’s nothing big or really profound, just a little thing.  But after all, it’s the little things that really matter. Some of you already homeschool and you know exactly what I’m talking about.  And if not, then you may be curious about the little things that make homeschooling such a big blessing.  From time to time, I will share some of those little things with you.  Here…