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Interviews with Homeschooled Adults – Andrea

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June 3, 20183 Comments

This week’s interview shares the struggles of being a sheltered homeschooler!
However, there’s no need to feel sorry for Andrea! She’s strong, capable, and homeschooling her own children now! Please, welcome Andrea to Raising Arrows!
(Feel free to leave questions and comments for her at the end of the post!)

Andrea shares her triumphs and trials being a sheltered homeschooler going back to public school and now a homeschooling mom herself in this week's Interview with Homeschooled Adults!

Name & Age:
My name is Andrea, and I will be turning 37 soon.

How many years were you homeschooled?
I went to kindergarten and then my parents decided to homeschool me. I was homeschooled until after I was 16, and then went to high school for grades 9 to 13.

Favorite homeschool memory:
My favourite homeschool memory is looking at the pictures in my reading books. That leads me to the next question…

Favorite curriculum:
My favourite curriculum is Pathway Reading books. It took many years and many reading curricula until I finally learned to read and enjoy reading.
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Notebooking Made Easy – Podcast #42

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May 29, 2018comment

Learn how to make notebooking easy for your family!

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Does notebooking overwhelm you? Do you feel like a notebooking flunkie? Do you wish you figure out how to make time for it? This podcast is for you! Learn how to make notebooking easy for your family!

In this episode:

How to combine subjects for notebooking.
How to store (and not store) notebooks.
Tons of ideas to take the stress out of notebooking!

Resources mentioned:

Large Family Notebooking post

Teach Them Diligently Convention

Apologia Notebooking

NotebookingPages.com
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Also, on sale right now is Charlotte Mason Homeschooling in 18 Easy Lessons! For only $10, you can learn how to easily implement the CM Method in your homeschool! Read my review on Simplifying the Charlotte Mason Method!
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Preparing Your Homeschooled Child for College (even if they don’t go!)

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May 21, 201826 Comments

The tools your children need for college are the same tools they need for life - so give them that college-prep homeschool education even if they don't go to college! Here's how!

For many years, my husband and I waffled between encouraging our son to go to college and discouraging him from going to college. We both had college degrees, but we could see where college had many pitfalls, both academically and morally, and we just weren’t sure we wanted him there.

While I don’t want this post to turn into a discussion of the merits (or lack thereof) of higher education, I do want to say that even if our son had chosen not to go to college, we still would have given him a college-prep education. And now that he is entering his junior year at a local private university with a 4.0 GPA, I am happy that we decided to prepare him for college no matter what path he chose. In fact, we are making the same choices for our other children as well because it is our belief that a college prep type education is a life prep education – at least the way we go about it!
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Low Carb and Trim Healthy Mama Bread Options

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May 15, 2018comment

Take it from a former bread addict – some meals just scream for bread. I’m not sure I am even capable of eating a bowl of soup without some yummy bread to compliment it. But…bread and my waistline don’t get along much. In fact, I’m pretty sure it was all that delicious bread (with a few sugary snacks thrown in) that packed the weight on me in the first place, and taking it off has required me to get a little creative because as I said earlier – some meals NEED bread!

Thankfully, there are tons of lower carb bread options out there! Not all are low in calories, so be aware of that, especially if you are tracking! But, here’s a few of my absolute favorites that keep me happy and satisfied in the gimme-some-bread department!

S, E, FP options for easy and delicious low-carb bread!
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My Top Picks for This Year’s BYB Homeschool Bundle Sale

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May 7, 20185 Comments

The Build Your Bundle Homeschool Sale starts TODAY, and you can literally feel the buzz all over the homeschooling community.

But, you can also feel the collective groan as homeschool moms everywhere wonder how they are going to make yet another homeschooling decision. So today, rather than a general “here’s the sale” post, I’m offering my opinion on which bundles are worth the investment because sometimes you just need someone to break it down and give an opinion. Feel free to look over the other bundles not mentioned here, and use this handy shopping list to help you keep everything straight, but hopefully this post gives you a good starting point!

I also need to note that if you buy 2 bundles, you get the 3rd one FREE! So, definitely keep that in mind! (More info here.)

Download & Print this Shopping List!
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Making a Menu Plan Your Family Loves – Podcast 41

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May 7, 2018comment

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Menu planning is one of those homemaking chores that can easily become drudgery. You spend copious amounts of time putting together a list of meals you “hope” everyone will love, then you have to write out your grocery list, and then you have to actually make the meals you planned. But, what if you had a list of meals you knew your family loved? Trust me – it will revolutionize your menu planning process! This podcast teaches you how to build a menu plan your entire family loves!

In this episode:

How to put together a meal list to choose from.
The family voting process.
Finalizing your meal list.
How to create a rotating menu plan from your list.

Resources mentioned:
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Soup, Salad, or Sandwiches post (our super easy lunch menu!)

HUGE Homeschooling Giveaway + a FREEBIE!

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May 2, 2018comment

In the homeschooling world, EVERYONE loves a good giveaway! And EVERYONE loves FREE STUFF! Am I right? I know I am because I’m thinking the same thing! So, here’s the latest amazing homeschool giveaway and a freebie you won’t want to miss!

GET YOUR FREE STUFF NOW!
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This year’s Build Your Bundle (the best homeschool bundle sale of the year!) is in a few short days, so that means it is giveaway time where you can enter to win, refer a friend and win with them, snag a free {and beautiful!} portfolio pack, and get an awesome coupon toward the sale that will be starting May 7th! Woot!

Here are the details for those of you who like to know!
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Giveaway ends Monday, May 7 @ 8AM EST <– ENTER NOW!
One winner wins ALL 20 bundles – a $5,204 value <– Woot!

Simple Alphabet Matching Preschool Project

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April 25, 20181 Comment

I’m always on the lookout for simple preschool projects because I don’t have a lot of time to plan an extravagant homeschool preschool day, but I still want to do fun things with my younger crew.

I’ve mentioned before that this school year we have been enjoying the projects in A Year of Playing Skillfully (read my review of A Year of Playing Skillfully!). In the curriculum there was an alphabet project that involved stickers and an empty paper towel roll, but I couldn’t find an empty paper towel roll on the day I wanted to do the project (if you look closely in the photos, you’ll see a toilet paper roll – didn’t work, just in case you’re wondering). So, I decided to improvise!

Preschool projects don't have to be fancy to work! Try this simple alphabet matching project with your little one today!
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