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Another very nice family I meet in the Illinois Homeschooling Convention was the Gould Family, owners of Faith and Family Books.
Faith and Family Books is specialized in literature that strengthens and encourages the faith. They sell Lamplighter’s books which are based in the early 1500-1900’s and have been beautifully re-printed [...]
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Contest 8 of 8 — 9:10 pm US Central Time
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One of the most interesting workshops I attended in the past Illinois Homeschooling Convention was the one called “Whatever Happened to Church History” by Diana Waring. Diana is a very energetic speaker that brings life to history. She is considered today’s [...]
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Contest 7 of 8 — 9:34 am US Central Time
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The 103rd Psalm Bless the Lord and The 127th Psalm The Lord Builds The House have been beautifully decorated by Johanna Stanford.
In The Lord Builds The House, Johannah illustrates the verses with farm and wild animals celebrating the bounty of nature; [...]
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Contest 6 of 8 — 9:58 pm US Central Time
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Johannah Stanford, author and illustrator of My Mommy, My Teacher and several other children books is self-taught in art. She has developed a unique style rich in colors and delicate details.
In My Mommy, My Teacher Johannah captures remembrances of the [...]
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Contest 5 of 8 — 8:28 am US Central Time
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While searching the books shelves of Nature Workshop Plus! I see a red book with large and clear letters called “How to Behave and Why”.
“No matter where you are or who you are, there are four main things that you [...]
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Contest 4 of 8 — 9:26 pm US Central Time
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It is very nice when we see a family together, children working side by side with their parents in a family business. This is the case of The Ruark family, owners of Nature’s Workshop Plus! A business specialized in science resources [...]
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Contest 3 of 8 — 9:35 am US Central Time
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In our next school year I will include the lecture of Biographies. Ava Bluedorn, author of Lives in Print, prepared this pamphlet during her school years. It contains good biographies and autobiographies listed by subject and by author and with a [...]
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Contest 2 of 8 — 9:10 pm US Central Time
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“The rod and reproof give wisdom,
but a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.”
Ginger Plowman author of several books in the area of parenting and woman’s topics was one of the speakers in the past [...]
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Contest 1 of 8 – 9:25 am US Central Time
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I learned many interesting things in the past Illinois Homeschooling Convention, we will talk about in the next post, but the more rich experience was to meet in person Laurie Bluedorn and her wonderful family.
I had read all of [...]
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Hello:
I am happy to announce that it is Contest Time here in the Blog. I was thinking to wait until coming back to Saudi Arabia to make the contest, but I found a Post Office near the place were we are spending our vacation in Houston-TX, by the way [...]
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