Hasbro’s game GUESS WHO? has been a part of our family fun for about the past 5 years. The game is uncomplicated, fittingly habit-forming, and a whole lot of fun. The new, not yet released GUESS WHO? Mix ‘N Mash adds a bit more intrigue to the original game and allows up to 4 players [...]
A Cessna Flight
August 18, 2010 By 10 Comments
Ready…Set… Back-To-Schooling at Home
August 17, 2010 By 8 Comments
10 healthy habits to a successful school year Create a schedule, stick to it, and then break it as often as possible… indulging in spontaneity fosters creativity. Change your working environment-Go to the library, school on the trampoline (some of our math facts were best learned on the tramp), school in the car on the [...]
Summer Break’s Out School’s In
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Summer Break’s Out School’s In
August 16, 2010 By 3 Comments
Youth Leadership Initiative
August 9, 2010 By 1 Comment
With 2010 elections just around the corner, I thought it was great timing to share this fabulous website. The Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI) provides civic education classroom resources to teachers and home school parents absolutely FREE OF CHARGE. YLI is a national civic education program designed to involve students in the American electoral and policymaking [...]
Today’s Vacancy Committee meeting
August 7, 2010 By 3 Comments
Colorado State Representative Karen Middleton announced that she was pulling out of her re-election bid to represent Arapahoe County’s House District 42. Three nominees were in the running for her seat and today a 35-member vacancy committee selected a candidate to take Middleton’s slot on the fall ballot. The three candidates were Sean Bradley, Carlos [...]
VCS Color Guard
August 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Saturday night Valkyrie Cadet Squadron’s Color Guard had the honor of presenting Colors at Coors Field for the Rockies game. Congratulations for a job well done to Cadet 2d Lt Sean Cooney, Cadet 2d Lt Stephen Scheffel, Cadet 2d Lt Alex Axford, Cadet Master Sergeant Noah Gibbs, and Cadet Airman First Class Bryan Fisher. Thank [...]
VCS Color Guard
August 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
Saturday night Valkyrie Cadet Squadron’s Color Guard had the honor of presenting Colors at Coors Field for the Rockies game. Congratulations for a job well done to Cadet 2d Lt Sean Cooney, Cadet 2d Lt Stephen Scheffel, Cadet 2d Lt Alex Axford, Cadet Master Sergeant Noah Gibbs, and Cadet Airman First Class Bryan Fisher. Thank [...]
The LEarning Never Stops Photo Challenge
July 31, 2010 By 4 Comments
This Week’s The LEarning Never Stops Photo Challenge is “properties of water” My first thought was to post something from Disney On Ice: 100 Years of Magic, but every picture was taken from afar with my Blackberry and none of them came out great. So then I remembered the very first time I took my children [...]
Our School Materials Arrive
July 29, 2010 By 10 Comments
We are still thoroughly enjoying our summer break, but here it is several weeks before the start of school and this is what awaits us on our front door step. And the computer is delivered directly The curriculum that our Academy uses was created by a team of experts at K12 and the offline materials that we [...]
Wrapping up the School Year
July 28, 2010 By 4 Comments
Every year we end school by sorting through our years’ worth of work and deciding what to keep and what to throw away. There are some things that my children write, create, and make during the school year that I truly treasure. Things like research papers, essays and compositions, some unit tests, art work, science [...]
What is an Online School?
July 27, 2010 By 2 Comments
Austin and Tiffany do an amazing job explaining how an online school really works. Please check out their video and join them on their journey into What is an Online School? And check out some of my previous posts about: The benefits of …ONLINE SCHOOLS…A Growing Trend How our family’s journey began in our online [...]
Reach Out and Read
July 26, 2010 By 1 Comment
Reach Out and Read is a nationwide nonprofit organization that promotes early literacy and school readiness, and they are working on an exciting project this summer. Reach Out and Read has launched the Summer of a Million Books campaign, a new initiative in partnership with United We Serve: Let’s Read. Let’s Move. The campaign aims [...]
3rd Annual Reunion sponsored by the National Coalition For Public School Options
July 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
What a great line up of outstanding speakers here in DC for the NCPSO Family Reunion. Pam Benigno Independence Institute, Education Policy Center Dr. Allison Powell, iNACOL Anna Varghese Marcucio American Federation for Children Jim Horne Florida Charter School Alliance Inspiring…Motivating…and Encouraging words to help parents make a difference in advocating for SCHOOL CHOICE!
