jhawk2415

Josh is a swim coach and family farm entrepreneur. He and his wife of 20+ years, Amy, have worked full time together for the better part of their marriage homesteading, coaching, and homeschooling their 2 boys (Amy does 99.9% of the teaching). They have both been coaching since graduating Taylor University in 1997 and specifically coaching swimming since 2003.

Using less sugar…

In conversations about cutting back on sugar while baking, I am often asked…”How do you adjust a recipe to use less sugar?”. One of my goals in the last several years has been to use as little processed sugar as possible while still sweetening things with natural sweeteners (syrup, applesauce, and honey being my top […]

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8th grade–

Books our boys enjoyed during 8th grade… Hardy Boys series books (again and again) American Adventure series books (again and again) Ralph Moody series books (again) The Assassination Plot (Dunlop) The Golden Lamps (Dunlop) The Great War (Dunlop) The Willoughby Bank Robbery (Dunlop) Night Journeys (Avi) Alone Yet Not Alone (Leninger) The Notorious Benedict Arnold

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7th grade–

Books our boys enjoyed during 7th grade… The King’s Arrow (Cadnum) Doomed Queen Anne (C. Meyer) Beware Princess Elizabeth (C. Meyer) Mary, Bloody Mary (C. Meyer) Explorers Who Got Lost The Biography of Tobacco (Gleason) The Corn Raid (Collier)The Witch at Blackbird Pond (Speare)The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (Hunter) Traitor in the Tower (D.

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6th grade–

Books our boys enjoyed during 6th grade… Roller coaster books Ranger in Time series The Hardy Boys books Where the Red Fern Grows Books by Lois Walfrid Johnson Airplane books Combat Aircraft of WW2 Which Way to the Wild West (Sheinkin)The Family Under the Bridge (Carlson) The Astro Outlaw (Kelly) The Whipping Boy (Fleishman) Sounder

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5th grade

Books our boys were interested in during 5th grade… Phantom Tollbooth (Juster) Doomed Queen Anne (C.Meyer) Sounder (Armstrong) Elizabeth, Catherine, Bloody Mary (books by C. Meyer) American Adventure series Farm books Jet books Abeka grade 4 readers The Slopes of War     (N. A. Perez) Kit Carson Crazy Horse The Swamp Fox of the Revolution     (Holbrook)

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4th grade–

Books our boys were interested in during 4th grade… Charlotte’s Web (White) Ralph S Mouse (Cleary) James and the Giant Peach (Dahl) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Dahl) Will at the Battle of Gettysburg (Calkhoven) The Sword in the Tree (Bulla)Viking Adventure (Bulla) The Chalk Box Kid (Bulla)A Dog Named Penny (Bulla) White Bird (Bulla)

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3rd grade-

Books our boys were interested in during 3rd grade… The Red Hen (Emberley) Snowballs (Ehlert) Squeaks Good Idea (Eilenberg) A Very Improbable Story (Einhorn) Curious George [ x7 ] (Rey) Leaf Man (Ehlert) The Tail of Peter Rabbit (Potter) Winnie the Pooh and His Friends (Krensky) Mr. Putter and Tabby (Rylant) Mouse Tales (Lobel) Goldylocks

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