Homeschooling for His Glory

For those of you in search of homeschool deal this week-end, here is a round-up I concocted. A Few other deals to look out for: ****   Pilgrim's Progress (New Edition) : Digital version free on the Desiring God Blog. *****  Fitness 4 Homeschool  - 2013 Black Friday Sales . They are offering: Core 1 for $37 Platinum Package for $8 Here is my review of Family Time Fitness - Fitness4Homeschool  in case you are not familiar with them: **** All the Amazon Kindle tablets are on Sale at least at 20% off. **** Veritas Press is having 25% their Self-Paced History and Omnibus curriculum Check out my review of Self-Paced History Excellence in Writing: 50% saving between December 1-5 Pandia Press : 40% off during the Black Friday week-end Real Science 4 Kids: The Focus-on bundles are 20% off. Follow my blog with Bloglovin

Christmas is fast approaching and many have started the search for gifts to give to loved ones. If you have a homeschooling friend or relative, here is a short list of gifts that will surely warm her heart and make her very grateful. *** Of course this list is my personal list,but i have no doubt will work for any homeschooling mom and family. 1.   Gift certificate to a bookstore : Amazon , Chapters/Indigo , Christianbook.com 2. Gift certificate to an educational or office store supplies such as Scholar Choice or Mastermind 3 . A microscope or a telescope . To be honest, any science kit is always very welcome in a homeschooling home. 4. Book, books, and more books . I personally love encyclopedias. On our wish list right now is this particular set:  5. A membership to some kind of Museum . Homeschoolers love going to museums, and zoos! 6 . Games . Educational or board games are very much loved among homeschoolers. Settlers of Catan is one of...

I've missed a couple of Fridays, but here I am today to recap the past few weeks. 1 . The boys have been into baking for which I am very thankful. They've been making cookies, according to their taste, which have turned out pretty good. 2. We've been going through A Child's Introduction to Art pretty slowly, but we finally had an art time and made these Illuminated Letters. 3. My boys' new hobbies are their PS3 (Fifa World Cup Brazil, Lego Movie and Lego Marvel games), and indoor football. Don't ask how the latter work, only  my kids can manage to play football (I mean American Football) in a1050 sqt apartment. 4. Johann has rekindled his love for puzzle, as I asked him to do them for me to make sure all the pieces were there for a potential sale. Any takers? 5. In School, we are troding along: Vocabulary, History, Handwriting, Spelling and Writing are going slowly. Math is going steadily. I need to increase the amount of ...

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So, I have a 6th grader. What does that mean? I hear many moms complaining about the lack of blog posts and info on the web about homeschooling the middle grades. Sadly I have found it to be so myself too. For me, I consider the middle grades to be that stage at which my son will be slowing getting ready for high school and eventually adult life. I see that period as my last chance, or that last straight line, to shape his mind and worldview as well as his work habit. In classical education, this stage is called the dialectic stage, the age of connection. My son has always been adept at making connections in his mind about things, so this is not a very big change for him, but work habits, now that needs a lot of work. What I have found on top of that, is that this stage also coincides with entry into puberty and all the body and emotional roller coaster this brings in. In other words, this stage is not an easy one, and not at all predictable. The way we see it, three things h...