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Focusing Energy in the Homeschool Student
Brain Breaks to Re-energize the Mind Disclosure:This post contains affiliate links which means I receive a small commission for purchases made to external sites. Please visit my disclosure policy for full details. Thank you for your support of Great Peace Academy.My friend Heather has just released this book. The Ultimate Guide to Brain Breaks that I am so excited to tell you about. You see I have one of those children who just simply can’t sit still. He moves and bounces and rocks and spins all the day long. I’m anxious to read this book so that perhaps I can find a better way for him to release his energy…
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Great Peace Academy’s School Room
Not Back to School School Room Hop @ iHN We are truly blessed at Great Peace Academy with a fully functioning classroom with built ins. In a former life with a former home owner, this room was built to be the workshop of a man who restored old radios. So the built in cabinets and wainscoting were already there when we moved in. I’m sharing some storage ideas below with links to my affiliate Amazon.com. These boxes and magazine holders were great for helping to organize my classroom. Regular followers of this blog will know that we have been over the past few weeks doing some rearranging of rooms, and…
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Homeschool Literary Guides Download
Free Downloads for Back to Homeschool As school starts and homeschool teachers begin to put together lesson plans we can often find that the available worksheets for reading guides just simply don’t offer much to inspire true learning in our children. My own son struggles with writing so he needs to be guided in his literary endeavors. That’s why I created these literary guides, a guided book and poetry report. With these guided reports the students are prompted to recognize key elements in stories, books or poems. Whether it’s identifying the main character or characters, or it’s finding the problem in the story and understanding the resolution of the problem, with…
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Not Back to School Curriculum Hop
iHN Not Back to School Blog Hop It’s that time of year again. The time for the biggest homeschool blog link up of each year. It’s the Not Back to School Blog Hop at iHomeschool Network. Starting today and then each week for the month of August the iHomeschool Team is hosting the link up. The first week is the Curriculum Hop. My philosophy is changing slightly this year but it’s mostly a moralistic decision rather than an actual change in function within the school. We are going to be a Bible based academy. This philosophy will mean that Bible comes first in all areas of learning. Instead of incorporating Bible…
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This Week… Camp Prep
Busy Making Preparations for Church Camp This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for supporting Great Peace Academy, please see my Disclosure Policy for further details. This Week… We have been busily working this week to try and finish up some of our house re-do projects from last week. Because today we leave for church camp and will be gone for a full week plus a couple of extras because next Saturday is my family reunion in West Virginia. Math: A Little review using Khan Academy, Science: This week he has been studying all about bees. They really are fascinating creatures and although they be tiny, they make a very big impact…
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Jaw Dropping Curriculum Sale at Currclick
Currclick is Letting You Pay What You Want! Yes, you read that right! This post is has affiliate links. See my full disclosure for full details. Thank you for supporting Great Peace Academy and be sure to check out this amazing, exclusive first of it’s kind sale. It’s every homeschool moms dream. Have you ever been looking at a unit study or lapbook that you would love to have but think to yourself, ‘I wish it cost $_____, I could buy it if it cost that.” Well that is exactly what Currclick is offering you in their exclusive Pay What You Want Sale.Currclick carries over 4,000 titles and for this…
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Great Homeschool Conventions Continues to Encourage
GHC Offers a Free E-Book on Multiple Intelligences This Sponsored post brought to you by Great Homeschool Conventions, be sure to click the link below to download your copy of this free e-book. For More information about sponsored posts visit my disclosure page. In the Spring of 2012 I went to the Great Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati. It was my second year attending that convention and I was extremely excited to find that they had a gifted homeschooler track that year. It was the first time I had opportunity to sit at the feet of some excellent speakers regarding the topic of gifted and talented education. Since that time…
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Planning for the New Homeschool Year
Following my Action Plan for the Year. **Disclosure: This post contains both, affiliate advertisement. Which means, I receive payment for products purchased at external sites, But I am sharing with you products that I will be using in our homeschool this year, and I think they are pretty great. Maybe you will too. Thank you for supporting Great Peace Academy, for more information, see my disclosure. I’ve been busily working through my Action Plan for getting prepared for the new homeschool year. Pray, Since this is an ongoing conversation between me and Father. I won’t check it off my plan of action. I pray for wisdom to teach according to…
