Monthly Archives: August 2008

Homeschooling

Interesting Reads

I found some interesting reading out there in Internet Land- here are some links:

To get you thinking about “Back to School Planning” (did I just hear a big groan?) here is the Charlotte Mason Carnival- Back to Schooling Bash at On Our Journey Westward. There are a great many articles for you to sort through and I’m sure you’ll find something of interest, even if you aren’t following the Charlotte Mason method.

What makes a bad homeschool day? Guilt Free Homeschooling examines that question in an appropriately titled post- What made this a “bad” homeschool day? There are some ideas worth thinking about in this article.

Finally, Why Homeschool highlights an article that examines the question “Why Homeschoolers threaten our Cultural Comfort” and points us to a post by Judy that contemplates the question further in “Judy responds to why many hate homeschoolers.”

Go check them out and come back and tell us what you think.

Family Fun

Air Show

We recently had an air show here in town, sponsored by the Pendleton Air Museum. It came at the end of the bi-annual Advanced World Aerobatic Championship that was held here too. Pilots came from many different countries to compete and the United States was well represented.

The weather was great and there was spectacular flying to be seen!

The FA18 getting ready to take off. It was very loud as it sat warming up it’s engines and doing system checks. It did a low fly over.

(Click on thumbnails to enlarge.)

This plane went cork screwing up, hung in the air…

and came straight down!

The winner of the World Aerobatic competition, Rob Holland, is finishing up a heart here.

It was a great way to spend an afternoon and I saw many homeschool families enjoying themselves.

Homeschooling

Homeschool Curriculum Store

I have heard that there is a homeschool curriculum store in College Place, Washington.  It sells new and used curriculum.  I didn’t know that it was there.

Here is the information that I have:

Lamplighter Countryside Store

374 S.E. Highland Park Drive

Call for directions: 509-525-8143

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Friday 10-2

A Google Map.  I can’t guarantee that it is accurate.

Go find it, then come back here and tell us all about it.