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Preschool Beginning Notebook Set
Do you have little ones who need some special things they can do for homeschool? Gentle Shepherd is offering: Preschool Beginning Notebook Set I  is an e-book with 15 full-color print-out pages for early learning—read more about this unique product here: (more…)
My Audio School Subscription
My Audio School offers children safe and easy access to classic audio books, interesting educational old time radio drama, and television and radio broadcasts of historic events. My Audio School is a treasure trove for the classical educator, with over 600 distinct audio resources currently available for subscribers, including over 350 full-length downloadable audio books.…
Christmas Lapbook & Study Guide
  Christmas Lapbook and Study Guide Snuggle up on the couch with the kids this holiday season and make the holidays exciting with this Christmas Lapbook with Study Guide. Lapbooks are fun for children of all ages and a great way to have hands-on fun! (more…)
First Class Homeschool Ministries National Membership
Imagine a place where homeschooling families can find friendship, academic enrichment, information and encouragement right in their community! Now imagine this homeschool ministry functioning as a ministry of the local church. That's FCHM! First Class offers all this and more. FCHM chapters receive leadership training, support and materials from the only para-church ministry designed specifically…
The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
One-Year Digital Subscription to The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine What do you look for as you homeschool? Motivation? A little encouragement? Perhaps a unit study? Maybe an art activity? Within each issue of The Old Schoolhouse® you’ll find amazing resources, candid interviews with business owners, glimpses into the routines of other homeschools, articles from the experts…
The Ultimate Home School Fall & Christmas Expo!
A Homeschool HOLIDAY Conference with a Christian Focus! Get ready to dive into the holiday season with love, laughter and joy… The Ultimate Homeschool Expo presents its special holiday event, with forty speakers delivered to you online - a virtual convention experience! Don't miss Hal & Melanie Young, authors of Raising Real Men, speaking on:…
The Manly Virtues: A Powerful Mercy
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="485" caption="The Alamo, 1854"][/caption] When the outnumbered defenders of the Alamo refused the Mexicans’ demand to surrender, General Santa Anna ordered his buglers to play “El Deguello” – a call meaning “no quarter”, a signal that no prisoners would be taken, and anyone surviving the assault would be put to the sword.…
Two Rules Would Have Saved Paterno
Fabled career goes up in smoke because a subordinate took a wrong turn Joe Paterno spent 46 years coaching football at Penn State University. Last night, the Board of Trustees told him no, you can't retire in six or eight weeks. You're fired, as of now. And he's not the perpetrator. Joe's problem really stems from…
Down in the Dumps?
"To his son Custis, a cadet at West Point, Lee once wrote: 'Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you. ... All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too…
For His Mercies Aye Endure
A year and a half ago, I posted on my cancer treatment blog the five best things ever said to me: 1. "I love you!"   (1985) 2. "I do!"   (1986) 3. "It's a boy!"   (1990, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002) 4. "It's a girl!"   (2005, 2009) 5. "No evidence of metabolically active lymphoma."   (2010) And…