Category Archives: Home Schooling

Valentines Hearts

We brought the iron, wax paper, crayons, a pencil sharpener, and string when we visited Grandma K and made this fun and easy project. You just peel the crayons and sharpen them letting the shavings fall onto a piece of … Continue reading

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Adoption

You probably all noticed my mention of adoption in a recent post, so I thought I would post some more of the story. On January 1 (a year ago) we were talking over New Year’s plans, and Mama and Daddy … Continue reading

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Quoting the Founders: Websters 1828 Dictoinary

Oligarchy n. G. A form of government in which the supreme power is place in a few hands; a species of aristocracy. Tyranny n. Fr. Cruel government or discipline; as the tyranny of a master. Monarchy n. Gr. A state … Continue reading

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Recounting God’s Goodness 2009

Here are a few of the things are family has done this last year. JANUARY: Mama and Daddy tell us they would like to adopt, took clay pot snowmen to the residents at Waterford Retirement center with craft club, set … Continue reading

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Hanukkah

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Sea Snakes

I have been studying sea snakes in school. These amazing creatures are Aquatic Herps. You probably know what aquatic means, but I will explain the word herp. The word herp comes from the Greek word herpeton meaning “creatures that creep … Continue reading

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Quoting the Founders: Fisher Ames

[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and nobel. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if … Continue reading

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Mandolin + Guitar

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Christmas

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town … Continue reading

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Quoting the Founders: George Washington

If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constiution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature … Continue reading

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