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New Resource from The Old Schoolhouse

This summer I had the opportunity to send King Alfred’s English out in e-book form to bloggers with The Old Schoolhouse. The Old Schoolhouse is one of the largest and most popular homeschooling resources on the web, and their Review Crew, which is what their bloggers are called, are a delightful and diligent gang of homeschooling moms who agree to review books and other homeschooling products for The Old Schoolhouse. There were too many reviews to include them all, but I’ve pasted some of the comments below along with links in case you want to check out the whole review. [I posted this back in 2010 and a few of the blog sites are no long functional.]

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Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas

Thanks to my friend Dana who read this book and told me how great it was, I waited until this summer and dived in myself. The book is Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas. Metaxas, by the way, is also the author of Amazing Grace which was made into a movie in 2006. Bonhoeffer proved to be such an interesting book from so many angles that I posted a review on Amazon. I thought I would re-post it here and recommend the book to you, so here it is… Continue reading →

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A Grammar Site You Might Like

I found this chart on a really neat grammar site–Grammar.net. The main thing offered is a free download for a grammar checker on your computer that operates in conjunction with whatever word processor program you use, Continue reading →

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Things We Say Wrong

Here’s a funny 3 minute video called “Things We Say Wrong” from a You Tube channel called What You Ought to Know. Continue reading →

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Write Your Name in Other Languages

I’ve had a link up on my website at various times for students to write their name in hieroglyphs or in cuneiform, but here’s a place to go to get the script for your name Continue reading →

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