Does Homeschooling work?

Are you considering home education for your children or child? Now is the time to be doing some research and getting some good information. Family and friends will try to hinder your efforts and be nay sayers.

Check out this article on homeschool achievement from HSLDA.org.

The HSLDA.org website is a great place to find out the homeschooling laws in your state and also find out what you need to do to legally to remove your child from the school system. Laws vary widely across the nation.

This is also a great time to attend a homeschool convention and get some great ideas and get pumped up for the coming school year! We shall miss out this year since we have had a lot of medical bills and just don't feel that it will be in the budget this year. But we plan to save up for next year.

Moe

FREEBIE 2 kids Ebooks

Check out this goody from www.freelyeducate.com two free ebooks for children. We like FREE!!!

These are a bit too young for us, so please share with us if you are able to use them.
Enjoy,
Moe

Teaching kids survival skills

I came across this great blog article and thought I would share it.  I run into so many moms that have kids in public or private schools who say that they can't teach their kids anything because there is no time with them being gone all day at school. This article has some neat ways to teach these things even if your kids are gone all day. Survival Skills for kids helped me to see the importance of these things and how they can be worked in to the lives of our children.

4-H is something that has helped us to, our son can read the 4-H books about the subject we are looking at tackling and then we put our hands and feet to work on it. 4-H is free in most areas and "It's Not Just For Farm Kids Anymore!" Many inner city clubs have popped up across the country. Most clubs meet 1x per month for a meeting. 4-H is a great way to learn new skills that will be used for a lifetime and it also helps us get something out of our tax dollars that we pay in as 4-H is part of the US Department of Agriculture.

Have you taught your kids any survival skills? Share with us.
Moe

Gluten Free & Dairy Free French Bread

YUM!!!! This was my first attempt at using my Chicago Metallic Commercial Perforated French Bread Pan that my husband bought me for Christmas. Amazon sells them and they are wonderful!
The recipe I used was from 100 Best Gluten Free Recipes by Carol Fenster and was called French Yeast Bread. I got it from the library for free and you probably can do the same through inter-library loan.

The bread was very tasty and had a wonderful mouth feel to it. I've never shaped a loaf of french bread so it does not look like Panera Bread's, but it sure tasted good! Our son said it was even good without any spread on it. It had a nice crunchy outside and that fluffy yummy inside. I liked it better than the $8.00+ packages of Schar's bread. I'll let you know how it tastes after it sits over night, ya know sometimes gluten free tastes really good out of the oven and not so great the next day. We shall see.

Enjoy!!
Moe