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Finding Fun and Unique Ways to Teach Your Children

When we think of educating our children, we often think of our children sitting at desks or the kitchen table using textbooks and workbooks. While this kind of teaching/learning is enjoyable to some students, most students (and parents!) enjoy breaking out of the more traditional classroom setting in exchange for ideas and activities that are more fun! It is possible to incorporate alternative kinds of teaching and learning into your homeschool, and it doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive! There are ways to use hands-on activities, dance, poetry, drama, experiments, fun literature-related activities, music, travel, and more to spice up your homeschool! If you’re in a homeschool rut or if you’re just not sure how to add a little fun and adventure to your homeschool, we would love to share some ideas and information with you! Your children will thank you (Ok…it may be years from now! But they will!) and your family may discover a new love for learning this school year!

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What is a Mother To Do With Sons?

Many homeschool mothers grieve over the conflict that often occurs between them and their sons, especially as the enter the teen years. How does a mother handle the transition of her little boy as he begins to identify with his father and manhood? What is her role? What can she do to not alienate her son as she gives instruction? You learn the answers to these questions and more!

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Gap Year with a Purpose

A popular trend recently has been to take a year off after high school, calling it a “gap year.” Many students see this as an opportunity to take a break and relax. However, there are also many students who take this year to set a foundation for the rest of their lives. This session will discuss the importance of that foundation and how a student can effectively take a Gap Year with a Purpose.

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How to Create the Perfect Homeschool for Your Family

This workshop will be foundational and helpful for a family at any stage of homeschooling. The 5 big ideas presented could potentially revolutionize your family life and homeschool. There will be five seed truths that we will discuss to help you focus on what matters this summer and to lay the foundation for next homeschool year well before you actually embark upon it.

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Shining Armor: Your Son’s Battle for Purity

In a time when over 90% of boys have been exposed to pornography before they leave home, how can we teach them to keep their way pure? How can we help them walk in innocence when temptation lurks on a friend’s phone and beckons just a click away? Hal and Melanie offer frank and practical advice for teaching sons from toddlers to adulthood about God’s gift and Satan’s traps in the realm of sexuality. (Material is appropriate for ages 12 and up – parent discretion suggested!)

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Home School to Graduate School via World Missions

The 4-5 years and high cost of traditional college often impedes Great Commission obedience. This need not occur: the foreign language and cross-cultural skills needed to minster the Gospel to unreached peoples also comprise the core of a liberal arts degree. Learn how, via credit-by-exam and portfolio assessment, engaging in Christian missions can yield both a B.A. degree and foster an agenda for graduate school.

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Should You Homeschool High School?

Reason together with high school homeschoolers and their parents. Look at reasons for homeschooling high school! Classical Conversations exists to aid parents in their pursuit of a high quality, doable, classical education in an environment where the purpose is the know God and make Him known from tots through teens.

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From Gamers to Programmers: Leading our Digital Youth to Successful Careers

So.. you’ve got a gamer? Don’t worry! Come hear the facts, and dispel some myths, about our children and the digital culture they live in. We help parents understand how they can embrace technology and use it to lead our children into awesome careers. Learn about the similarities between our kids today and our childhoods 20-40 years ago. Yes, they are actually pretty similar. In addition, learn about the many areas of interest our kids have, just like when we were growing up, that we need to nurture. The only difference is…. they do it digitally. So come explore the world our children are growing up in and learn how to use it as an awesome tool for guiding them to successful, happy careers/lives.

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Starting to Homeschool With 3rd Option

Starting to Homeschool with 3rd Option is a workshop for South Carolina homeschoolers to help you understand the South Carolina Homeschool laws. We will cover how to choose the Association that will work best for your style of homeschooling. How to keep your records and what you need to report to your association. We will help you with choosing a curriculum and creating a social life. A booklet will be given to each workshop attendee to help them with their homeschool journey.

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Get Real: Designing a Road Map

Speaker: Beth MartinWhat do you want to be when you grow up? It is a question we ask our children starting from a very young age. But what happens when that questions becomes a reality? Post high school decisions can be overwhelming with the many options available. In this session, Beth will address how to […]

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Simplifying Algebra for the Hesitant Learner (When are we going to need this stuff anyway?)

Algebra is the study of relations (equations and inequalities). It is therefore essential that students completely and conceptually understand the basic concepts necessary to solve them. In this workshop, Tom Clark, founder of VideoText Interactive, and author of “Algebra: A Complete Course”, and “Geometry: A Complete Course”, will help you to develop an inquiry approach which is applicable to all basic relations. You will discover the analytical questions students need to ask, in order to “undo” all of the complications they may encounter, when solving equations and inequalities.

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Building a Solid Math Foundation

Who is going to build a house by starting with the walls? Without a solid foundation, those walls
may hold up for a bit but eventually will come crashing down. Math is a lot like building a house.
We need to start with a strong foundation and build up from there. It doesn’t have to be hard!
Come and see how easy it is to teach math.

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Reset for Parents

Raising a prodigal is every Christian parent’s worst nightmare. Horrifyingly, George Barna contends that over 60 percent of Christian kids will run off to university and “lose their faith.” But there is great news! Your child doesn’t have to become a statistic. Your child can become an adult who loves the Lord the same way you do – but this will likely require a radical parenting reset on your part.

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Micro Business for Teens: Starting a Micro Business

Encouragement for teenagers to start and run their own micro business. They will learn a lot while earning some money. A micro business can be started quickly and easily with no debt from home. Presenter Carol Topp, CPA has counseled dozens of teenagers starting a business and will discuss business plans, ideas. Teenagers and their parents are encouraged to attend together!

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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Role of Maturity in Math

Although we know each child is created by God to be unique, it can be challenging when a child doesn’t learn at the “typical”? pace. We may try to fit children into scholastic molds they simply are not ready to fill. Just as children learn to walk and talk at different ages, so also children mature to the point of understanding key mathematical concepts at different ages. Author and educator Carlita Boyles provides insights into what to do when your child is not performing at expected grade level in math or quickly forgets math concepts you have taught. Moreover, her refreshing approach to math instruction will help you teach more effectively, resulting in less frustration for you and your children. Carlita’s ideas and friendly encouragement have helped parents throughout the country find more joy in helping each child learn with greater success and less stress. Join her in this workshop which is filled with practical tips and Scriptural support to help you teach math with confidence.

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How to Successfully Teach Science to Your Teen

Biology. Chemistry. Physics. Teaching secondary science can be daunting. How can I make science interesting? How can I find sources for lab equipment and ideas for labs? How can I safely do labs at home? How can I teach so as to promote understanding and not just memorization? How do I integrate a Biblical worldview into science? Bill Harmon shows you practical ways to be successful no matter what the subject.

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Finishing with Confidence: A Plan for Homeschooling 7-12th Grades

Would you like support teaching higher level math, science, history, literature and language classes? Do you need assistance with transcripts, diplomas, and college advising? Are you interested in help from instructors who love the Lord, love to teach, and are from homeschooling backgrounds themselves? Find out why more and more homeschooling families are turning to Logos Online School, an affordable, accredited, online classical Christian school, as their children get older.

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The Four Steps of Learning

Learning consists of four steps. No matter what is going on with an individual, each person (whether special needs or typically developing) should go through these same 4 steps. First, the brain receives the information being inputted. Next, the brain must process the information it has received. Third, the brain needs to store that information. Finally, the brain has to use the information. Again, this four-step pattern for learning is the same for every person. There are multiple factors which can affect each step of learning and cause corresponding challenges. In this session, learn about these 4 steps of learning and how to optimize each step to become an excellent, efficient learner.

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Diving into Memoria Press in the Older Grades: You’re never behind!

It is never too late to begin a classical education! If you are just starting your Memoria Press journey with a middle- or high-school student, this is where you need to be! Your student can absolutely gain the beauty of a classical education while earning the necessary credits to graduate from high school – and it need not be a struggle.

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Top Ten Tips for Successfully Graduating Your Child

With 19 years of home education and four homeschool graduates who have successfully been admitted to their chosen universities, Debby Sjogren has learned by success and some failure how to prepare your children to have an amazing high school transcript. Come listen and learn how you can also best prepare your children for their next level of higher education.

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Crash Course in American History

Parents, has it been awhile since you studied American history? Do you need a refresher course to teach this subject with confidence? If so, join Linda Lacour Hobar, the author of The Mystery of History, for an insightful and inspiring “Crash Course in American History.”? Offered in two sessions this weekend, Part II will complete the Civil War and cover Chief Joseph, Pearl Harbor, Bay of Pigs, Dr. King, Watergate, and more – taking you up to today’s War on Terror. (If you missed Part I, come anyway! Both sessions will be recorded and available for purchase.) Students of all ages are welcome!

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