Nominations Have Begun for the Blog Awards!

Sharpened
I love to read the comics. I read them while I have my breakfast. Some days there aren’t any that make me giggle, but other days there are. This week though, one of my favorite comic strips, Pickles, had one that gave me pause to ponder. It appeared on Sunday (click here if you’d like to read it in completion) The setting is a Grandfather seeing what his Grandson is doing which is writing a story. The Grandfather than relates these thoughts about his

No, we haven’t forgotten to announce the winners…
Sorry to prolong the suspense. We haven’t forgotten to announce the winners. My mother used to say, “Every party has a pooper that’s why we invited you,” when the kids or grandkids started acting up during family gatherings. Unfortunately, there may have been some party poopers at the polls this year, stuffing the ballots. We have an IT pro checking the polls. I’m sure he would rather be enjoying the holiday week with his family, but he’s kind enough to do this for us, just like last year. Results will be posted once we have his final totals. Will some poll’s winners change? Quite possibly. If that happens, don’t assume

First Aid Unit Study
When I saw that my oldest Daughter needed to earn a First Aid badge for our church Master Clubs program (similar to Awana) I had a light bulb moment! I realized First Aid would make a great unit study for all of the kids to do together. With any unit study I first look through our books to see what I already have on hand. We have several health books as well as many science books so I pulled those off the shelves and went through those taking notes. Second, I make a folder in my favorites and search the internet, saving any appropriate sites I want to look through. Third, I visit the library and add to what I already have. I make notes all the while and plan my

“We’re Almost There…”
I know a lot of you are going to hear that phrase (”We’re almost there!”) next week on your holiday travels. Maybe some of you will be the ones saying it from the driver’s seat? We at the Homeschool Post are popping in to let you know that the polls have been closed. We had a bit of a hard time this year getting started and stopping at exactly the right times, but that is the human element with these types of awards, so we hope you’ll forgive us. Each of the authors here have their own blogs and lives to attend to (and when our poll lady has hurting wrists and is in Eastern time, we show her some grace – because we love her).

Natural Journal: Growing your Naturalist through Detail Development
Teaching students to pay keen attention to detail is challenging. Looking beneath the surface to capture that details often elicits, “This is so boring” response. When my sons pull that line on me, I say, “The word ‘Bore” means I’m either too lazy or not smart enough to make it interesting.” Great soccer players pay attention to detail –detail of movement. Great scientists recorded detail to make contrasts. Great historians went below the surf