Tag: summer

Homeschooling Teen – June 2015

Congratulations to this year’s graduates! We wish you all the best as you move on to exciting new possibilities. 🙂 A couple of changes taking place in our columnists: Katie is leaving to start a new phase in her life; and now that she’s graduated, Millie has come back to write for us! Here is […]

My Story

By Lulu. I started getting homeschooled in the fall of 2012, the beginning of my 8th grade school year.

My First Trip

My first summer away from home I got my sister back and my first time on an airplane was a first class experience.

Summer Camping Trip

By Josh My family always goes camping in the middle of August to pick raspberries and watch the Perseid Meteor Shower. So we packed our Ford Expedition and drove from our house in the desert up to the forest. On the way there, we stopped at a place called Garlic Paradise just off the freeway. […]

Senior Road Trip

By Sara The summer before my last year of high school education my mother decided we needed to go on a road trip. I guess she figured that this would be our last summer together as I was planning on starting college right away. We did not have much money at the time, but she […]

The Sports Report

… by Caela MLB All-Star Weekend The MLB All-Star Weekend is a combination of the Home Run Derby and the All-Star Game. The Home Run Derby is when eight of the league’s best hitters compete to see who can hit the most home runs in three rounds of competition. Four players are from the National […]

Taken Away, by Patty Friedmann

By Emily Russell Summer’s little sister went missing in Katrina – and her mother blames Summer. Summer Elmwood’s parents don’t believe in television, computers, cell phones, air conditioning, or caller ID. They don’t believe in evacuation, either – which is how they ended up living in their local Baptist Hospital when Hurricane Katrina hit New […]

Modest Summer Fashion

Hot weather doesn’t have to mean showing a lot of skin. Covering up is also a choice. So how do you stay cool and comfortable while dressing modestly – and why is it a good idea? Here is Homeschooling Teen‘s guide to modest summer fashion… The Bible says that “women should adorn themselves in respectable […]

A Summer Day’s Dream

I’ve saved the best (or at least, the most important to me personally) for last. This week is the crown jewel of this season of Xbolt’s Anime Reviews. A Touhou anime. Granted, it’s not an official anime done by a professional studio, but honestly, who cares? The fans who put this together did a superberiffic […]

Summer Wars

          In the near future, the Internet has grown into a huge virtual world called the World of OZ. In OZ, users create avatars to represent themselves, and do stuff. Shop, game, etc. Companies and governments have also set up shop in OZ, so it is connected to much of the […]

Books for Summer

College Bound Reading List Books for Summer Relax and be inspired with these books about sailing and the sea, nature, travel, adventure, and more. Dana, Richard Henry. Two Years Before the Mast. (A detailed autobiographical account of a two-year trip out of Boston and around Cape Horn to California circa 1834. For an extra touch […]

The Summer of Saint Nick, by Josh Burk

This review was originally published at http://www.knowledgehouse.info/review_SaintNick.html Josh Burk, a homeschool graduate, wrote his first book after finishing college. The goal was to create a novella for young teen readers that would be both entertaining and educational, seeking to improve the readers’ vocabulary while delivering a captivating story. The end result was The Summer of […]