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Time to Refresh Your Homeschool?

January 1, 2019 by Jenna

The holidays have just finished, and you’re probably about to get back into the same old same old. But how did it go those last few days of homeschooling before the holiday break? If you left off feeling worn out and tired, you may not be so eager to dive back in. If that’s the […]

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Reasons to Take a Spontaneous Field Trip

August 30, 2018 by Megan

One day near the end of last summer, I sat looking at my Reading 3 Teacher Edition in preparation for the coming school year. One story near the beginning of the book caught my attention—”Alex the Drummer Boy.” It’s a historical fiction piece set in Cowpens, South Carolina, during the Revolutionary War. As I looked […]

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Learning Activities that Come Alive

November 21, 2017 by Megan

At the beginning of the school year, I had the perfect opportunity to create some excitement around a historical fiction piece in our Reading 3 curriculum entitled “Alex the Drummer Boy.” As I read through the story in anticipation of our reading lessons, I realized that the plot is set against the background of the Battle […]

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