When I first saw that TOS was coming out with a student version of their Schoolhouse Planner, I wasn’t sure if it was going to be different enough for there to be a need to purchase a separate planner for the student. I looked at samples and was intrigued by what I saw. I liked that they had chosen to break the planner down by grades – primary (K-3), secondary (4-6), middle school (7-8), and high school (9-12). Yet, I still wasn’t completely convinced that I needed a different planner for Munchkin. I had created a workable planner from the…
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America’s Math Teacher Review
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America’s Math Teacher by Math Essentials America’s Math Teacher is an online math curriculum that spans grade 4 math all the way to Algebra I. Algebra II curriculum is in the works at the time of this writing. A full year costs $195 for homeschoolers. Multiple students can work at different levels. Students can work at their own pace which allows them to master the concepts before moving on to the next topic. The Learning Center contains online video lessons as well as printable written lessons. The Evaluation Center contains quizzes and exams for the student to take after completing…
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create the perfect planner for your homeschool using a set of resources located in your mission pack. The mission pack has resources to help achieve not only your homeschool goals, but also your household goals. You may choose to complete the secondary mission of creating household and/or student planner using the same mission pack. Photos have been included to help you identify the mission packet once you meet your contact. Your contact’s location? The Old Schoolhouse Store. Your contact has some valuable surveillance footage that I believe will help you…
Review: The Portable Patriot
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The Portable Patriot: Document, Speeches, and Sermons that Compose the American Soul Edited by Joel J. Miller & Kristen Parrish Book Description: Too often reduced to a mythic set of lofty ideals, the soul of America is far more than a concept-it is a people. Even the most sacred principles mean very little unless lived out passionately by an informed citizenry. In The Portable Patriot, you’ll find a carefully assembled sampling of American history’s most formative words, written by the people who were making that extraordinary history. Speeches and sermons, essays and extracts, poems and proclamations illumine such values as…
Traveling Made Easier: Travel Kits
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Are we there yet? He touched me!!! I’m bored!! She’s staring at me! Are we almost there? I don’t know about you, but I’ve heard those statements more than once on a car trip. Wouldn’t it be nice if the kids (and parents) looked forward to the car trips instead of dreading them? Travel Kits: A Simple Way to Bless Others by Donna Rees Travel Kits is a wonderful e-book put out by The Old Schoolhouse. It’s packed with beautiful illustrations and ideas to help you create fun filled travel kits for your family. In addition to blessing your own…