Spring Fever Hits - Homeschool Journey

Can someone please explain to me why today *feels* like a Monday? I also have the worst case of distractionitis that I have ever had. I couldn't focus to save my life!

Maybe it is the blooming flowers, the warm air and the hint of green on the trees that is causing my issues. After all, who wants to be inside staring at a computer screen, when the fresh air is calling. I am suddenly back in a school room staring out the window, daydreaming of what I would do when the bell rang.

On that note, I think we will do our math lessons on the porch today. Maybe it will be a quick cure.
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$25.00 Gift Certificate Drawing!

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New Products!

The History Portfolio Series has just arrived! If you haven't seen these yet, you will want to take a look! These portfolios are a fabulous way to keep track of your children's written projects, reports, colorful drawings, photographs, and clippings. Each book is designed for use by an individual, child or adult, and will become a unique record of the student's "journey through history".

Designed by Barbara Shukin, the History Portfolio Series is an engaging history curriculum that is adaptable to your method of teaching. It supports Classical and Living Books approaches and homeschooling with notebooking. Filling in the pages involves reading, writing, geography, art, literature, science... you decide! History inspires the imagination. The History Portfolio Series can capture the inspiration.

In each of the four volumes of the History Portfolio Series a Table of Contents provides a comprehensive guide to ensure that important subjects are covered. The table of contents organizes history into topics, and even suggests ideas for filling in pages of the Portfolio. Main topics include specific works of literature, important people, works of art and architecture, important names and events in history, plus advances in science and technology. Think of the table of contents as a history spine for you to rely on.

Several resources in the Portfolio - in addition to the table of contents - will help with filling in the boxes, including Topics for Narrations and Reports and Important Dates and Events. You can rely on the Book Recommendations resource to steer you to some very high quality literature. Here you will find titles of books written by authors who are passionate about their subjects, and often speak directly to the reader in a simple, conversational style.

There are five volumes of The History Portfolio Series. Ancient History Portfolio Junior, Ancient History Portfolio, Medieval History Portfolio, Renaissance History Portfolio, Modern History Portfolio and a Teacher's Guide that compliments the Ancient History Portfolio. Other Teacher's Guides will be published soon. Read more about the History Portfolio Series.
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Homeschool News

From World Net Daily - POLICE STATE, GERMANY Homeschooler flees state custody. Melissa Busekros surprises parents at 3 a.m. Melissa Busekros, the schoolgirl taken by police and placed in a psychiatric hospital because she was diagnosed with a "school phobia" and was being homeschooled, has fled state custody to make a midnight trip...read the full article here.
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Feature Book

The featured book for this week is Hitty Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

The charming and adventurous memoirs of an exceptional doll named Hitty. Her story begins in Maine in the early 1800s, where she is transformed from a piece of sturdy mountain-ash wood into the valued playmate of a young girl named Phoebe Preble. When the inseparable pair join Phoebe's father on a journey aboard his whaling ship, Hitty's one hundred years of exciting adventures begins! Join this doll of great charm and character as she travels all over the world, from India to Philadelphia to New York. Whether she is traveling with a snake charmer, attending the opera, meeting Charles Dickens, becoming a doll of fashion, posing as an artists' model, or being stolen away on a Mississippi riverboat, one thing is certain... no doll has led a life like Hitty's! The 1930 Newbery Award winner. Ages 9-12. Purchase Hitty Her First Hundred Years.