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Flying Through Summer with Creatures of the 5th Day
For the first time in my life I am doing summer school. Yes, you heard me right. I am the self-proclaimed homeschool teacher who said, summer school was for the birds. Yes, it is for the birds, that is why we will be doing summer school, the birds. We have spent the year in Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Zoology 1,…
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This Week… Ah Summer Weather
We have had a long, long, long winter. I feel like we didn’t really have a spring. In fact just last week we had frost on the ground. But this week summer weather has arrived. Little Man made a choice a couple of months ago, he decided he wants to do Apologia’s Exploring Creatures of the Fifth Day, Swimming Creatures.…
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The Social Lives of Gifted Children
Help for Parents of Gifted Children What would you do if you found that your little one struggles to find their place in the world? This is one of those questions I find myself considering often. With a gifted mind comes unique behaviors and idiosyncrasies that often cause a child to stand out among society as “different.” You’ve seen it…
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Training Up In Worship… by Example
We have gone from training up from infancy to training up using discipline. My prayer is that through this series you are encouraged to walk worthy of your calling, that you find that teaching your children is both important for their future as well as a part of God’s calling for you as their parent, and that you find some…
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This Week… Working Through
This Week...I’m so ready to be done with school. Our usual school year would have ended this week. However, this will be the first year that we are continuing into summer. I’m not happy about this, however it has been his decision to finish “Flying Creatures” so we can move into “Swimming Creatures” in the fall. I admire his willingness…
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Circle of Mom’s Top 25 Contest
Do you love following Great Peace Academy? Now you can help me by spreading the news about my blog. Just click this link and vote for me in the Circle of Mom’s Top 25 Homeschool blogs contest.I’m currently pending, but with your help I can move up in the rankings. Thanks friends.
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News from Nashville
My trip to the Teach Them Diligently Conference in Nashville was was some wonderful girl time with my friend Sam, with lots of laughter and good conversation, with even a ghost story for us to share, wink wink. It is always wonderful to share time with a sister in the Lord of like minded faith. I loved having the opportunity…
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This Week… Conferences & Calculus?
View from our room So this week… What can I say about this week. Ya’ll know I headed to Music City, aka Nashville, for the Teach Them Diligently Conference. I think the good Lord has blessed me with a tremendous friendship that started online, found out we were both members of the same body of Christians and our friendship turned…
