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Well I'm all for frugal! Most of us homeschoolers have enough materials on hand to educate a small army...lol. This summer go through your bookshelves and make 3 piles: THROW AWAY KEEP SELL/GIVEAWAY Throw Away Pile: The first pile is just plain old junk, stuff that is used up, scribbled on, torn up etc. Get RID OF IT!! Including that workbook you bought on Ebay that smells like nasty musty YUCK!! Keep Pile: This is stuff that you can use, organize it by subject, I like to buy those magazine holders from the Dollar Tree or use cereal boxes with the top and side cut out. They are very durable if you put some clear packing tape on the bottom of them. I use these for booklets, workbooks and things like that. I put subjects on those and on free days, I will tell our son to go and pick out an activity and spend an hour working on it. It makes learning fun because he can pick what he wants to do. Jot down what you have and later on in the summer when you really start planning out the comi...

Summer has flown by and we are almost ready for a brand new school year. Tomorrow will be our annual Homeschool Planning Meeting . We are entering Senior year and I have some pretty cool stuff planned out. The Homeschooled Young Man has some thinking to do, we ask that he bring his ideas to the table in writing. Things that I have on the agenda... 1. What will be our core courses? 2. What will we use for those core courses? 3. What extras will we add in to round it all out? 4. What will be done as full year courses and what will be done as semester courses? 5. Field trip ideas? 6. Will we attend homeschool convention this year? 7. What life/social skills will we work on this year? 8. What volunteering will we be involved in? 9. What medical training/skills/shadowing will he be involved in? 10. Will he be a part of TeenPact.org again this year? 11. What classes outside the home will he take? 12. What are some things that he would like to learn? 13. What sort of employ...

This is right where we are, hard to believe that we are almost done homeschooling, with just one year left to go. I came across Michelle's blog not too long ago and have been reading it. She has some wonderful heartfelt insight on sending your child off to college. The article is called getting your teen ready for college  and it is well worth the read. Once I catch my breath, it's been a wild ride and busy time with college visits, applications, essays and fun stuff like that! We enjoyed our last homeschool convention and were so blessed to spend that time learning from college guidance counselor talks. It was also a melancholy time of reflecting on the years gone by and a sad but inexpensive time of shopping the vendor hall. It was sad to look at all the new curriculums out there, yet have no need to buy anything. Of course I bought myself some goodies...lol. We are embarking on some exciting uncharted territory for us with some interesting twists and turns along the wa...