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Accelerated Christian Education (ACE)

Accelerated Christian Education – AWESOME UPDATE To The Schedule Changes We Made!!

February 2, 2010 Accelerated Christian Education (ACE)

Recently, we made some changes to the way we do things with our ACE curriculum!  (Click here to read up on the changes.  Then, click here to sign up for my RSS feed or email updates so that you don't miss any more cool news!) I wanted to let everyone know what a great time [...]

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Accelerated Christian Education – Making Exciting Changes To Our Method!

January 9, 2010 Accelerated Christian Education (ACE)

Every once in a while, your homeschooling ideas need a little shaking up, right? Well, quite frankly,  I don't want my homeschooling ideas shaken!  I like things nice and smooth, stable and predictable.  The Lord doesn't always see things my way and helped effect some changes here at the HomeGrownMommy residence.  And, I really think [...]

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Top Ten Things I Like Best About Accelerated Christian Education

December 23, 2009 Accelerated Christian Education (ACE)

Lots of people find the HomeGrownMommy website as they search the web for reviews of the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum.  We are in our fourth year of utilizing ACE and it gets two thumbs up – from teacher and student alike! Here are the things I like best about ACE: Consistency – ACE helps me [...]

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Accelerated Christian Education – Overcoming Problems

December 1, 2009 Accelerated Christian Education (ACE)

As with any curriculum you’ll choose for your child(ren), you will occasionally experience *issues* or problems.  It might be that you can’t quite find a good place for your son to complete his work.  It might be that you find its too easy for your daughter to cheat as she checks her work.  It might [...]

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Accelerated Christian Education – A Day In The Life

October 5, 2009 Accelerated Christian Education (ACE)

A Day In The Life Of My ACE Student Morning He gets up at 7am each and every morning.  We have a “Morning Routine” checklist that he goes through.  He also helps his younger brother complete his routine checklist.  Daily Bible reading happens before breakfast and during breakfast if needed. After breakfast, we have a time [...]

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Accelerated Christian Education – Personal Testimony

October 2, 2009 Accelerated Christian Education (ACE)

Honestly, ACE was not my first homeschool curriculum choice. When I thought about homeschooling my children, I wanted to research all the possiblities out there and hand-pick the best of the best that would fit their personalities and unique traits perfectly.  I didn’t feel confident that a pre-packaged curriculum based solely on workbooks would be [...]

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Accelerated Christian Education – How To Get Started

September 23, 2009 Accelerated Christian Education (ACE)

In a previous article, we talked about how to determine whether or not ACE was the right curriculum for you.  Reading the information there first will help you be better armed to progress to the next step in this journey – how to get started! Now, we can discuss the plans and preparations that need [...]

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Accelerated Christian Education – How We Plan Our Year

September 22, 2009 Accelerated Christian Education (ACE)

We are on Part 3 of this ACE series! Thanks for sticking with me!  Here are the previous articles, just in case you missed one.  Join the other readers who have read the ACE articles in signing up for new content to be delivered to your RSS feed or email and never miss another article! Part 3 is about [...]

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Accelerated Christian Education – How To Determine If ACE Is The Right Curriculum For Your Child

September 16, 2009 Accelerated Christian Education (ACE)

Many moons ago, I posted a general “review” of how and why we use the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum (aka ACE, School of Tomorrow, PACEs) in our family. Since that time, many families searching the web for more information about the ACE curriculum, have found this site.  I would certainly like to help families with this [...]

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Using the Accelerated Christian Education Curriculum or PACEs

April 18, 2009 Accelerated Christian Education (ACE)

For my 10yr ds, we use ACE (Accelerated Christian Education), otherwise known as School of Tomorrow.  It is a self-paced, self-study type of program.  The subjects include Math, English, Social Studies, Science, Word Building.  We are also doing two electives including Bible Reading and Literature & Creative Writing.  For each year of school, the student [...]

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