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For Charlie Plumb, a retired Navy captain shot down after 74 successful missions, seeing many of the guys he was held with in a North Vietnamese prison was an indescribable experience on Tuesday, May 23. “Seeing these guys I haven’t seen in a long time is really neat, especially when you’re in a prison cell with nothing else to do; you get to know these guys really well,” said Plumb, who spent six years in the “Hanoi Hilton” prison. “It’s a bond that can’t be replicated and can’t be broken. Some of the guys saved my life, and some guys...

Raising Arrows Podcast #144 – A Day in the Life of a Large Family Homeschool Mom What a randomly chosen day in my large family homeschool mom life looks like! Got questions?  I’ll answer them in the next Podcast Q&A!Email your questions to Amy@RaisingArrows.net Resources mentioned: Podcast #124 – Taking a Jubilee Homeschool Year Playful Pioneers (curriculum) Flip Flop Spanish (curriculum) Table Chores (post) Special Night (post) Adventures in Odyssey Club (post) Enya Radio on Pandora Podcast #144 – A Day in the Life of a Large Family Homeschool Mom Amy

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Incorporating Adulting Skills into High School Planning- Special Replay. Incorporating Adulting Skills into High School Planning When we are homeschooling our high schoolers, one of our most important tasks as parents is passing the baton of “who’s in charge of learning and living” to our teens. In other words, we hope that as our teens move through high school, they become more and more in charge of their education and of their life preparation. Of course, all teens are different and there’s not ONE right way for teens to progress into their preparation for...

The 1600s are an excellent era from which to choose artists for picture study. The beginning of the century ushered in the end of the Renaissance but still included some of that movement’s most well-known artists. Mannerism dominated much of the middle and later years but eventually gave way to the Baroque style, which remained popular through the 17th century. In this week’s post, I’m sharing a list of artists to consider for picture study from the 1500s! As I’ve mentioned in the last few posts with these artist lists (you can see the other ones at the end of...

Looking for the perfect reading program for the kids in your life? Want to feel a wave of nostalgia as you do? Then look no further than the Pizza Hut BOOK IT! Program, now enrolling for both Camp BOOK IT! and the 2023-2024 school year. The programs are free to join. Camp BOOK IT! is for parents/guardians to enroll their 4-12 year-olds. Adults set a goal with their young readers for June–August, tracking progress along the way with a digital dashboard. The flexibility of the program allows for determining which kind of goal is best: pages read, books read, or...