Highlands Homeschoolers

I have been reading the book “For the Children’s Sake” by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay and it really has opened my eyes in many areas of schooling my children. I highly recommend this book!!! It discusses the why of the Charlotte Mason way of learning. If you use another learning style you will still find useful [...]

I received the following in a forwarded email, and I thought you might enjoy it for a laugh!
KidsAreQuick
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TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America …
MARIA: Here it is.
TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America ?
CLASS: Maria.
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TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on
the floor?
JOHN: You told me to do it [...]

I recently read an e-newsletter that highlighted the educational activities that can be accomplished during a vacation, but I was most impressed by a father’s article that encouraged mothers to simply enjoy the time off and let their children do the same.

I am probably the number one advocate of multi-tasking, but I think it is [...]

Our pastor started a new series called “The Pursuit of Joy” this past Sunday. I thought it was interesting that he did not use the movie title, “The Pursuit of Happyness.” Then, as he described that happiness is based on happenings and joy is based on choice, I understood.
Here is a summary of his thoughts [...]

We had a wonderful number of people (50 total) attend the last Alys Stephens school performance on Friday. It was great mix of music, drama and audience participation. Probably the one thing that stood out to me was the message of the value of friends.

That morning my girls and I had actually read [...]

“Jesus is with me everywhere I go”

We have no reason to fear!

ONE MINUTE EACH NIGHT during WWII, there was an adviser to Churchill who organized a group of people who dropped what they were doing every night at a prescribed hour for one minute to collectively pray for the safety of England, its people and peace. This had an amazing effect as bombing stopped.

There is [...]

Last week, I walked into my office to find a sandwich bag on my desk containing three chewy, tasty, homemade chocolate brownies. Some thoughtful and anonymous person who knew my love for tasty homemade brownies had placed them there, along with a hand written short story. I immediately sat down and began eating the first [...]

I just wanted to encourage you all to log on to the Resource Forum on the website (www.highlandshomeschoolers.com/forum ). It has started to grow with information, but one major change is the Prayer Needs are now listed and can be listed directly on the forum. The forum is only viewable by registered users [...]