Graduation Party and Gift Ideas
Wednesday, 01 June 2022
It’s that time of year – time for graduation! Do you have a child graduating? My youngest granddaughter just finished preschool and had a cap and gown ceremony. So adorable! Are you planning a graduation celebration for your high school or college senior? All of our kids had different ceremonies and get-togethers. Our two
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Using Literature to Teach about World War II in High School
Friday, 24 September 2021
Many of us use a curriculum to teach history, but using literature to teach history can be a great teaching tool. I am continuing this history literature series with some of the best books to teach about World War II. Using literature to teach history illuminates the time period, helps integrate the history curriculum,
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Hey Mama Monday: Mama, Long Days and Short Years
Monday, 16 August 2021
Hey Mama, Every graduation, a video is created from only ten pictures to depict that child’s birth through their graduation. It plays for thirty seconds with their desired music in the background. When I watch these, their life from birth through graduation literally passes in front of my eyes, and I end up
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Manners and Microbiology
Friday, 23 September 2016
Establish a healthy lifestyle from the very beginning. Our newest preschool class is Manners and Healthy Habits for Preschool. These fifteen lessons with activities are full of bright illustrations and simple worksheets to help preschoolers as they learn about ways to keep themselves and others neat and healthy and ways they can demonstrate good
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Over the High School and Through the Home … It’s Off to College We Go!
Monday, 09 April 2012
Renee Janzen Stop! Read on only if (a) you currently, or someday will, have a homeschool high schooler; (b) you want your high schooler to have a college education but have plaguing thoughts that you can’t guide your child through high school and into college; (c) you believe the maze of transcripts, applications, and assorted
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High School With Special Needs? Yes, You Can!
Monday, 09 April 2012
TOS Interviews Sharon Hensley, MA When we begin homeschooling, the Lord puts us on a learning curve. We must learn how to teach phonics, math, and more. When we discover that we have a special needs child, we are on an accelerated learning curve. Now we must learn how to deal with our child’s unique
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Talking with Dr. Stan Oakes, President of The King’s College: Part 2
Monday, 09 April 2012
TOS: In an article for Vision magazine, you wrote, “After all, a liberal arts college traffics in the ideas that move the world.”Please explain this statement in depth. Dr. Oakes: There are only a few issues that are truly important in this world. They are the issues of truth and error, war and peace, wealth
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Talking with Dr. Stan Oakes, President of The King’s College: Part 1
Monday, 09 April 2012
When I first met Dr. Stan Oakes, the president of The King’s College, in September last year, I might have appeared calm, but I was actually trying to compose myself after what I’d just heard. Dr. Oakes and other representatives from The King’s College in New York City were in Orlando that afternoon to promote
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