Imagine that your child can understand high school-level information, but reading a regular textbook is difficult. Maybe he or she has dyslexia, a learning difference, or another condition that inhibits success.
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The Ashland Homeschool Classical Learning Center stands out as a beacon of support for local families seeking alternative schooling options at no cost. In our years of working with homeschooling resources, we have never seen such a program as the Center — free of charge!
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Fun, hands-on project! Simple for teacher and student. It provides a complete state history course on your state, including text, maps, color state symbol pictures, quizzes, tests, lesson plans, answer key, and state constitution study guide.
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Irregular verbs are one of the true challenges in grammar, whether English, Spanish or other languages. This category of verbs have to be memorized individually. Unlike regular verbs, there is no pattern to these verbs – in other words, they are not regular!
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A devotional book is one that contains uplifting quotes or sayings, especially from a holy book, such as the Bible. Vicki Watson is a HORSE person and a Christian, through and through, and she finds guidance and inspiration from God by her experiences with horses and her knowledge of horses.
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Over the past several months, a game called Constitution Quest has been creating quite a buzz. I have been hearing more and more people talk about this great board game and its goal of enhancing the Constitutional IQ of the American people.
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Imagine that your child can understand high school-level information, but reading a regular textbook is difficult. Maybe he or she has dyslexia, a learning difference, or another condition that inhibits success.
Many families now have more T.V. sets than people. Add to that the array of smart phones, computers and electronic game devices owned by most families and you get a recipe for family disconnection. One of the best advantages of homeschooling is family time together, but if we squander too much of that time in our separate electronic worlds, we lose a precious treasure forever. Time lost can never be regained and children are soon grown and gone.
When I spoke to John Muir Laws, who prefers “Jack”, what his life’s mission is, he answered definitively, “To have every person fall in love with the world around them.” After speaking with Jack, seeing his work and everything he does, he is definitely in love with the world.
The idea of short lessons is often approached with skepticism by parents. I understand this completely, as I was a doubter myself. I have often asked parents this question, “Do you have anything to lose by trying it? If you were to try short lessons and find they did not work for you, couldn’t you just go back to long lessons?” I cannot even count the number of parents who tried this and now rave about short lessons.
