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Old Schoolhouse Magazine Crew Review – Zeezok Publishing

February 2, 2010 Reviews

Excerpt from the cover: Presidential Penmanship is a supplemental handwriting skills program for first grade through senior high based on writings and quotes of America's founding fathers and president.  This program will expose your students to the governmental pricnicples and moral qualities that made America a great nation.  Each grade level is available as an [...]

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Old Schoolhouse Magazine Crew Review – Christian Keyboarding

February 1, 2010 Reviews

Watching my 11-year-old (as of today!) son hunt and peck for letters on the keyboard is nearly painful.  I know that if I keep doing it for him, he'll never learn but I can hardly help myself.  We really need a keyboarding course! We got Mavis and it would probably be fine if we did [...]

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Old Schoolhouse Magazine Crew Review – Worship Guitar Class DVD

January 7, 2010 Reviews

Have you ever wanted to learn how to play the guitar but just couldn't afford the one-on-one teaching with a guitar instructor?    Or maybe one of your children has been bugging you forEVER about taking some lessons, but you didn't think you could fit one more "field trip" into your already full schedule? Jean [...]

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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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Old Schoolhouse Magazine Crew Review – The Tortoise and the Hare by Maestro Classics

December 20, 2009 Reviews

We received this CD in the mail just as we were to go for a bit of a road trip – perfect timing! I popped it into the CD player and we all had a great time listening to the beautiful music, the interesting story, and the explanations of both story and music.  My crew [...]

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Old Schoolhouse Magazine Crew Review – Tektoma

December 16, 2009 Reviews

Computer programming for 7 to 17 year olds? Don’t you need at least a 4 year degree to be able to do that? Not if you have a subscription to Tektoma! This website walks a student through the process of programming a video game through online videos. For this review, I had my 10 year [...]

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Old Schoolhouse Magazine Crew Review – All About Spelling Reviews

December 15, 2009 Reviews

We are having a great time with the All About Spelling curriculum! It was love at first sight when this neatly packed boxed showed up in my mailbox with its crisp new teacher’s manual and fresh never-been-mauled-by-the-baby flash cards! “Mommy, why are you drooling on that box?” “Nevermind.” While I gather my thoughts again, go [...]

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Old Schoolhouse Magazine Crew Review – American Heritage Education Foundation

November 10, 2009 Reviews

The most important thing you should remember about this review is that you can download this product for free at the American Heritage Education Foundation website!!  Scroll down to about the middle of the page and you can choose from Elementary, Middle, and High School lesson plans to download.  For this review, I am focusing [...]

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Old Schoolhouse Magazine Crew Review – The Amazing Bible World History Timeline

November 3, 2009 Reviews

Can you imagine how large a map would have to be that included all of history – from Adam right down to 1982 and had everything from Bible events to secular world history? It’s huge!  And, there is not one practical spot on my walls to display it! Unfortunately, we are not in a position [...]

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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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