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    Friday Flashback: Thanking God For Another Day!

    - By Renée Gotcher

    By Renée Gotcher This week I’m participating with a homeschool blog link-up called “The Homeschool Mother’s Journal” hosted by The Homeschool Chick. It’s been a pretty steady week of “ups” in the homeschooling department thanks to our recent school area “reorg” — which has been really refreshing — but it’s…

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    Our First Week: Getting Back in the Swing

    - By Renée Gotcher

    The Sunday before our first “scheduled” day of the new school year, our family spent about eight hours driving back home from Telluride, Colorado — pulling into our driveway as the sun was setting at about 7:30 p.m. After being gone for almost 10 days on a family road trip,…

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    How Often Do You Get to Pet a Rhino?

    - By Rosanna Gotcher

    By Rosanna Ward Last Thursday evening was our first official school field trip for this year. The Tulsa Zoo was having its Member Appreciation Evening, so after Homeschool P.E., we picked up some dinner food and drove out to the zoo’s park early. We had a picnic and played at…

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    This Week in History: Resolved White, our Mayflower Ancestor

    - By Rosanna Gotcher

    This week in History, we will be talking about the Mayflower and our first intersection with our family’s ancestors. Resolved White was a five-year-old boy when he sailed with his father and mother, William and Susannah White, to the New World to find religious freedom. We don’t know if he…

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    First Day of School at the Ward House

    - By Rosanna Gotcher

    First day of school went well. Joel and I got everything on his lesson plan done by noon, and then he got to run errands with his dad. Another reason I love homeschooling. — Rosanna Ward

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