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by Jessica Frierson, February 2022 February is a great time to shine the spotlight on a few notable homeschooled black Americans. Each of these individuals defied great adversity to pursue an education for themselves and have left a legacy that impacts all of our lives today. They lived in a time when education was denied to them based on the color of their skin, yet they had an innate understanding that simply learning to read would open doors for them that would otherwise remain locked.  Today, the growth in homeschooling among black families signifies an incredible victory as they come...

167: Free Online Word Games and Apps The free online word games and apps mentioned in this episode are: Wordle Klura and Wordus are phone apps similar to Wordle Words with Friends – similar to Scrabble Typeshift – move the columns of letters to create words, new one each day 7 Little Words – find the 7 words to match the 7 clues using the letters / letter groups. Also look at their “for the classroom” page for printable themed versions of the game Flippity – hangman (previous episode on Flippity) Word Trip app good for younger children A fun...

.wp-block-image img {max-width: 100%;} img {height: auto;} The Ultimate English Paper Piecing Project Planner! is a post from Confessions of a Homeschooler. If you’ve enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Erica on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest! Also be sure to stop by her Community to join the discussion or her Store to see her latest items! The Ultimate English Paper Piecing Project Planner is an 8×10 PDF download including 54 full-color planning pages! Since it’s a PDF, it is also customizable so you can print more or less of the planning pages, making this planner totally customizable and unique to...

This post contains affiliate links - using affiliate links from HS Coffee Break helps fuel this blog.  For the past few years I have been teaching high school writing in our homeschool tutorial co-op. Having seen several groups of students through the courses, I've noticed some issues and questions coming up regularly. I hope these Tip Sheets will be helpful to my students, their parents, and perhaps to other students and parent/teachers as well. ********** Descriptive writing is used in both non-fiction and fiction writing, so it's a useful skill for writers. It's used in advertising, in biographies and memoirs,...

One of F's Christmas presents from us was a rock tumbler.  It has been so fun to see him use it; he really loves rocks!Setting up his first batch of rocks to tumble.After using the first grit.After the 2nd grit.F's finished rocks after all the grits.  It took ~ 1 month to finish these.I think F's rocks came out great and he has already started his next batch.  This was definitely a win as far as gifts go.  I look forward to seeing more of F's tumbled rocks soon.