Thrift Schooling

If you are looking for a way to incorporate electronics into your homeschool for your 7-12 year old, then I have a treat for you! EEME is a company that makes hands-on projects and FREE online lessons to teach kids electronics. This program is created to foster their curiosity for how things work and prep them for the STEM opps of tomorrow.  Each project kit is paired with online curricula to not only show your family how to assemble the kit, but more importantly, teach them how it works. The heart of EEME is their monthly subscription program. For a low monthly cost, you receive an electronics project kit in the mail. A new kit ships every month complete with all the electronic components needed to build a new project. The breadboard, baseplate and battery pack are re-used each month, for each project. This requires the kids to break down last month's project in order to build the new project. They designed the experience this way because by breaking down l...

HEAV Virginia Homeschool Convention June 11-13, 2015 Richmond, Virginia Homeschooling…or considering it? Don’t miss the 32nd Annual Virginia Homeschool Convention for three days of encouragement, support, and resources!   Attend three, FREE how-to-begin workshops on Thursday, June 11, and afterward, tour the Exhibit Hall (340+ booths last year) as our special guest! First-time parents of just preschoolers and non-homeschooling grandparents can attend the ENTIRE convention for free.  The convention offers inspiring keynotes by Ken Ham, Buddy Davis and Voddie Baucham, plus lots of incredible workshops with speakers Steve and Megan Scheibner, Todd Wilson, Kim Kautzer , and many others; a Used Curriculum Sale; an expanded music competition; college fair, hands-on demos in the Exhibit Hall; a Children’s Program; and much more! If you are planning on going, come on by and visit me at the   WriteShop Booth  # 1210 ...

Whether you are coming to the end of your homeschool year or you school year round, assessing where your children stand acedemically is likely on your mind! This year, we are schooling through mid-summer when the baby is due. Summer vacation will officially begin the day the baby is born! Fortunately, we have gotten through the grunt work of the year and will be done with the basics and essentials a few weeks before my due date just in case this one chooses to arrive a tad early! Even though we have a couple months of work left to complete in order to be officially done, I wanted to see where my oldest son stood in his academics. Every state is different as far as what is required for yearly testing. Some states are extremely strict on homeschoolers while others are quite lax. Here in Virginia there are two options, one that requires yearly testing and one that doesn't. Even though I chose the latter doesn't mean I don't assess my kids, I just am not req...