Category Archives: VaHomeschoolers

Without a Season: Virginia Homeschool Sports Access

For the first time since Nick was four years old, he doesn’t have a spring soccer season. He is a U15 player for a Richmond Kickers competitive youth travel team, and at his age and level, his teammates will be … Continue reading

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Books to Homeschool With: The Story of Science

I enjoyed getting to hear author Joy Hakim speak at the VaHomeschoolers Conference in March 2011. Many homeschoolers know Hakim for her chronologically-arranged series of books The History of US, used widely by many homeschoolers to study United States history. … Continue reading

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Heading to C’ville to Chat About Homeschooling

VaHomeschoolers is hosting a coffee chat in Charlottesville 7 – 9 pm Monday, February 28. VaHomeschoolers president Parrish Mort and I are looking forward to seeing whoever can come by Cville Coffee to chat about homeschooling at your house or … Continue reading

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High Tech Woodshedding*: Guitar with YouTube

Our twelve-year-old Nick has taken guitar lessons that were helpful (thank you Robbie), and he has apprenticed and learned in a music store (thank you Dylan), but he also has learned a lot from lesson videos at YouTube. Once at … Continue reading

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Fill ‘er up in Mathews, Virginia

Buildings speak to me, often in my father’s voice. I’m especially interested in old buildings, sometimes because they have been abandoned, sometimes because they have been restored. I was traveling a few hours from home for a VaHomeschoolers Board of … Continue reading

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