Juggling A Student and A Toddler The biggest challenge in homeschooling first grade was that our older son was doing school and our younger son was still too young. The older son could see that the younger still got to play all day; and he didn’t like that he had to do school and couldn’t […]
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Today we move our American Guinea Hogs from one paddock to another. With the simple use of a bucket of feed and 2 sorting boards (found here: https://amzn.to/31FCddo) we walked the pigs 100 yds in open space in less than 60 seconds. The pigs almost got into a single file line like elementary school kids going the lunchroom!
But it does take patience and persistence. If you spend just a few minutes each day training your pigs to a feed bucket, you can do the same!
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What Worked Well For US A friend was using a curriculum called My Father’s World. And another friend had given me some 4th/5th grade ABeka materials —“…In case I decided to homeschool”. I was familiar with ABeka from being in a private Christian school during some of my elementary school years. However, since I was
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A brief glimpse of our decision to homeschool and how it has been implemented in our family.
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Permanent chicken runs are bad. And I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve been a bad homesteader by raising chickens on a permanent chicken run. But I don’t anymore….and here’s why. Permanent Chicken Runs Are Bad….. Permanent chicken runs are bad for the land and they are bad for bird. After six months (sometimes
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