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    This Year in Our Homeschool: AmblesideOnline Year 4, Part 1

    This year we are entering our fifth year of homeschooling and our fourth full year using AmblesideOnline as our curriculum. I realized as I looked back over my posts from last year that I never did write about AO Year 3, which is too bad because I really did love the books we read last year. It was a good, smooth year for the most part. But here we are in the middle of February, which for us means that we are finishing up Week 6 of Year 4. So I thought now would be a good time to talk…

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    Where Am I?

    Testing, testing…Is anybody still out there in blog-land? I feel like I need to apologize for not being here myself. But supposedly, you’re not supposed to do that, at least according to the blogging gurus. Well, I gave up doing things according to them a long time ago. SO…..sorry I’ve been AWOL! There are reasons, and I want to explain. Last time I posted, I was getting ready to go to the AmblesideOnline retreat. I thought I would come back and be able to write a post about all I learned. But life got so busy that I just haven’t…

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    April 2019 Memory Work Plans

    Spring is officially here! But I know that many of us still have cold snap or two in our futures before it really feels like warmer weather is here to stay. Nonetheless, in our area the fruit trees are blooming, the birds are singing before sunrise, and the grass weeds are turning green. This year, with Easter Sunday happening in April, and two family birthdays before that, we have a month full of celebrations and busyness ahead. But I couldn’t forget to create new memory work plans for us, and for you! This is not a particularly thematic set of…

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    March 2019 Memory Work Plans

    Here we are, marching into March already! I must say that February simply flew by around here, excepting the part of the month in which it seemed to rain for a week straight. (We did get over 13 inches of rain here in Middle TN in February, so I didn’t exactly imagine all that water!) I had to scramble to get this month’s memory work in order for today, though to be honesty, we won’t actually use it until next week. No need to start a new batch on a Friday, in my opinion! But I wanted to get it…

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    February 2019 Memory Work Plans

    Hi there, friends! It is coooold in 80 percent of the continental US at the moment, and Tennessee is no different! But the end of winter is coming, albeit slowly. February marks that time of year in our lives when we are weary of winter and waiting for spring. It also frequently marks that tired time of the year for homeschool families when everyone just wants to quit. So I offer you some brand new memory work to liven things up a little bit! If you have been following our memory work plans for a while, you may notice that…