Mary Nix on April 21st, 2009

In my opinion, every day should be Earth Day, but I’m glad that we do celebrate it once a year and bring awareness to others.

PBS KIDS® will have Earth friendly episodes of Clifford,  Arthur  and others all ready for Earth Day on April 22nd. They will be celebrating Earth Day and their  new Web-based Earth [...]

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Home education not only prevents creativity from being rubbed off, but encourages each child to create, explore and discover their place in the world. In honor of the Easter holiday and Ms. Potter, I present the Peter Rabbit Edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling, starting with some great Peter Rabbit Resources.

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Mary Nix on April 9th, 2009

I’ve taken the plunge and will be hosting this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling here at HEM’s Guide to Resources.  I’ve been enjoying the submissions that have been coming in and look forward to those that will be coming in the rest of the week.
I hope you will join us by submitting your post here.
–Mary

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Mary Nix on April 9th, 2009

The Wisconsin Historical Society offers some really interesting resources on decorated eggs.  Here is a link to all of them.   If you happen to make any of them, send along a photo and we’ll share it here.

From Shell to Symbol Home
The Wax-Resist Process/Tools of the Trade
Decorating with Ribbons
The Eye of God
Symbols from the [...]

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Mary Nix on March 27th, 2009

50 questions for a WikiAnswers.com scholarship?
Here are some of the details, broken down for your readers:
* The WikiAnswers.com Scholarship Program plans to award twenty scholarships valued at $1,000 each for use by recipients.
* This scholarship is for students planning to be enrolled in undergraduate classes during the 2009-2010 academic year.
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Mary Nix on December 22nd, 2008

I was just reading Self-Inspired Learning by KarenVogel in the latest issue of Home Education Magazine when I came upon this  sentence:
As most of my friends know, I regularly suffer paroxysms of guilt over my complete neglect of science as a school subject.
I have heard that a lot over the years.  (Actually, I usually [...]

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