See a need… Fill a need… The Homeschool Spanish Academy was founded by Ron Fortin, a former U.S. Marine. While serving as a principal of a school in Guatamala, Ron envisioned a way to provide high quality Spanish instruction to homeschool students. In 2010, his vision came to life – Homeschool Spanish Academy. Homeschool Spanish Academy is basically a high quality, online Spanish tutoring service. Students from elementary up to adult can meet with certified Spanish instructors online and learn to read, write, and speak Spanish. The one-on-one approach to Spanish instruction allows students to learn from where they are…
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Awesome Science: Yellowstone
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During my first review of Awesome Science: Explore the Grand Canyon with Noah Justice, I introduced you to 14-year-old Noah Justice the host of the Awesome Science video series. In the second video of this series, Noah takes us to Wyoming to visit America’s first national park, Yellowstone. Yellowstone is one of the national parks that is still on our “to visit” list. In Exploring Yellowstone with Noah Justice, Noah continues with his educational yet entertaining presentation style as he compares the two different views of the Yellowstone. The video itself is a good quality production. Noah’s Dad, Kyle Justice,…
Awesome Science: The Grand Canyon
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Let me introduce you to 14-year-old Noah Justice. Noah is the host of this new video series called Awesome Science. He’s going to take you on field trips to some incredible places like the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone. These field trips will be presented from a Biblical (creation) worldview. Noah will be comparing the traditional evolution viewpoint found at most of these locations to the Biblical account of what happened. Having been to the Grand Canyon a couple of times since moving to Az, we were interested in watching Exploring the Grand Canyon with Noah Justice. Noah is quite entertaining…
Review: The Art of Argument
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The Art of Argument: an Introduction to the Informal Fallacies is a curriculum which helps students learn logic and critical thinking. Once completed, students should be able to identify flawed arguments and create proper statements (arguments) of their own. Students will learn from real life examples about 28 different fallacies which are broken down into 3 main fallacies: relevance, presumption, and clarity. The 28 different fallacies covered in this book include: Ad Hominem Abusive Ad Hominem Circumstantial Tu Quoque Genetic Fallacy Appeal to Fear Appeal to Pity Mob Appeal Snob Appeal Appeal to Illegitimate Authority Chronological Snobbery Appeal to Ignorance…
Creek Edge Press was started by a homeschool mom, Amy Kate Hilsman, who wanted to provide materials for her daughter that would combine the methods of Montessori, Classical, and Charlotte Mason styles of teaching. As she started developing these tools for her own family, Amy saw that other families and schools wanted the same types of tools, so she began to produce the materials for others. It was from this beginning that Creek Edge Press was born last spring. For our review, we received the Modern World Task Cards Set ($20 for set of task cards and teacher’s guide) which cover…