Homeschool Pow Wow!

POW-WOW (homeschool style)
A few people have wondered about Tapestry of Grace and another friend was unable to attend the homeschool conference.  So, I gathered some people together to encourage and equip one another.
Some of the notes include:

• Read good books, not just fluff. List of good books
• Honey for a Child's Heart by Hunt
• Read for your Life by Hunt
• Books Children Love by Wilson
• Science Exploration Exploration
• was good at the experiments and explanation
• Apologia Science all loved
• Institute in Excellence in Writing we talked about Fix-it! a grammar book correcting skills
• Spelling Power

• Phonetic Zoo Spelling from Institute in Excellence in Writing

• Scripps Spelling Bee (for the Nintendo DS) which my children's scores on their weekly tests were amazing.  *downsize it is sometime misplaced 
• Interesting Website help
• alexs.com is a fee based math but only has the student work on what he doesn't know
• ixl.com is a online subscription that is tailored to math requirements per state and grade
• khanacademy.com is a simple guy teaching math, science, and art and it is free
• Atelier Art DVD teacher who explains art and makes it do-able for children and adult
• Teaching Textbooks (video math) that corrects instantly as the student is working on the problems
• Math u See (mastery math)

There was a long explanation of Tapestry of Grace and the benefits of using this amazing program.

Since it is now spring, I needed the refreshment from others in this journey of training our children.  Thanks for all that came and gave your input.