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Winner of Digital room sweepstakes

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And the winner of the digital print contest is Darla, Pencil Portrait Artist Congrats Read more Notes From a Homeschooling Mom Visit Me at the Families.com Homeschool Blog Visit My Education Column at Examiner.com Great Deals on School & Homeschool Curriculum

Homeschool blogger needs topics

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As you may already know, I wrote several blogs on homeschooling and education. I have been doing this several years and sometimes am just brain-dead for topics. If there is anything you would like to know about homeschooling or that would make a good article, please leave a comment... thanks. Read more Notes From a Homeschooling Mom Visit Me at the Families.com Homeschool Blog Visit My Education Column at Examiner.com Great Deals on School & Homeschool Curriculum

Don't parents think for themselves?

I am confused. I live in the Georgia NE area that is flooding today. I am watching a news story about Cobb County schools closing after flooding and parents screaming that their kids the kids should have never been sent to school. They are angry that schools were open and the kids were permitted to go to school... but I am looking at these upset parents and asking myself... didn't the parents have to dress those kids and put them on the school buses. If they didn't know better, then how could the schools.... If they did know better, why did they send the kids in? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Read more Notes From a Homeschooling Mom Visit Me at the Families.com Homeschool Blog Visit My Education Column at Examiner.com

Website Curriculum Review: Guaranteach

I was recently introduced to a new online math website called Guaranteach.com. It is a math website that provides online math help through the use of video. It is value priced at only $9.95 a month. I have seen this done by other websites and feel that it is truly the way math should be taught (through video), but gauranteach goes one step further customizes the program by letting students and parents create settings that fit the students learning style. I have used different video based lessons over the years to homeschool my kids. The reasons we have stopped using one site or another is because they would complain that it was too fast, or too dry, or too silly, or too fast. The customization feature of this site solves that problem. You can adjust the settings for something more or less serious. To be more verbal or less, more real world, or to have more or fewer pictures. The student will also have a hard time getting bored because there are numerous teachers to help them th...

Win a free Poster Print

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Notes from a Homeschooling Mom is hosting a 18x24” Rolled Poster Print giveaway from DigitalRoom.com. The winner will be able to create your own photo enlargement or custom poster for free! In full disclosure, I will tell you that the sponsor is giving me a free poster print for hosting this contest. I a m trying to decide if I am going use my poster printing gift to blow up a picture of my family in front of the holly wood sign from this summer or if I am going have a piece of my own art recreated through digital printing to give as a gift. (I like to keep the originals.) This offer is open to US residents only with FREE UPS Ground Shipping for US residents. To enter do one of the following: 1. Please leave a comment explaining how you would use the Poster Print if you won. 2. You may also blog about the giveaway and link to my blog as well as DigitalRoom.com ( be sure you leave a comment to let me know you did it. ) 3. Tweet your Giveaway @uprinting with trending topic ‘#give...