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Summer School for Mom: Evaluating

2 Aug 201712 Jul 2022
How do you know what your child knows? There are a variety of ways to find out! Here are seven tips for evaluating: 1. Set Goals Remember back when we…
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10 Evaluation Interview Questions

15 Feb 2017
One often-overlooked tool in evaluating the success of any particular homeschool year is a simple, informal interview with each child. By spending time with our children all day, we probably…
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7 Ways to Evaluate Student Progress

27 Aug 201411 Oct 2022
If you jumped into the new year using traditional materials, you probably already have an idea how you will evaluate your student's progress.  You can see at a glance those…
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10 Ways to Use Notebooking: #10 Scrapbook

29 May 201328 Jun 2022
So many treasured memories.  So little time!  And as one who has finished up this homeschool adventure — I can assure you — it does go very fast! You can…
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1922 Stanford Achievement Test {Free}

18 Mar 201328 Jun 2022
More for historical interest than seriously testing our children! The 1922 Stanford Achievement Test, Advanced Examination, Form A, for Grades 4-8 is available as a free download. What type of…
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Evaluating Progress?

14 May 201219 Aug 2022
It's that time of year.  If you are looking for fresh ideas for assessing progress, you might find these useful: 7 Ways to Evaluate Student Progress So how did your…
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Workbook for the SAT Essay {Free eBook}

9 Sep 20111 Sep 2021
Workbook for the CollegeBoard SAT I Essay by James P. Stobaugh is a free, 34-page download that will help your child prepare for the essay portion of the SAT. Even…
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Create Your Own Worksheets {Free}

16 May 201128 Jul 2022
If you are looking for ways to help your child practice his skills, you'll appreciate these free worksheet generators. Update: Unfortunately, the site we linked to for over a decade is…
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Evaluating for Excellence

14 Mar 2011
Too often we evaluate without knowing where we started. We evaluate using arbitrary evaluation tools that cannot tell us if we have met the goals we were working on. In…

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Four Great Americans ~ Free eBook

Four Great Americans ~ Free eBook

Four Great Americans contains biographies of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln. Free.

6 Feb 202331 Jan 2023
100 Best Books for Children ~ Aikin

100 Best Books for Children ~ Aikin

Number 51 on The Hundred Best Books for Children list found in The Book-lover are stories from Evenings at Home by Aikin.

2 Feb 20235 Feb 2023
Presidents Day Update {Free Unit}

Presidents Day Update {Free Unit}

We have updated our Presidents Day Holiday Helps page, a free unit study, for 2023.

1 Feb 202328 Jan 2023
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