9th Grade Science Project: Accuracy of Weather Forecasting

One of John’s major school projects for this year is complete!  Yea!  Each year, A Beka Academy students in grades 7-12 put together a science project that involves several steps.  There is a background information research paper, an investigation, analyzing of the investigation, and sharing the project through a display and oral presentation.  These projects [...]

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October 2011 A Beka Academy Scripture Memory

Note:  John and Brock are on a different verse schedule this year, so sometimes they will have verse videos, and sometimes they won’t.  They are still learning lots of verses, though!  :)  

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2011-2012 School Pictures

Well, after much photo shooting, sorting, and editing, I think I am getting our family’s school pictures narrowed down.  I have been taking them myself for several years, and have discovered that if I take lots and lots of shots, a few will come out right!  :)  Now comes the hard part:  getting the actual [...]

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Book Review: A Time to Betray by Reza Kahlili

My son, John, who is in 9th Grade of A Abeka Academy recently wrote this review of A Time to Betray by Reza Kahlili: A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran, the autobiography of Reza Kahlili, reveals the atrocities committed by the Islamic Republic of [...]

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State Fair Exhibits, Silliness, and Chainsaw Sculptures

One of the first buildings that we went into had some interesting 4-H exhibits. We enjoyed looking at the many insect collections, model rockets, and woodworking in this building.  The boys were especially interested in the Lego Mindstorms projects that had been entered.  They have expressed interest from time-to-time in these programmable robotics kits, and [...]

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A Beka Academy 5th Grade Mammal Poster

One of the first projects for A Beka Academy 5th Grade is the mammal science poster.  Brock did his on guinea pigs, and John did his on bob cats.  Cosette wanted to do hers on dogs, but I told her that “dogs” is too broad of a topic and encouraged her to pick a particular [...]

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Nope, It’s Not!

    So, the answer to the question in my last entry is this:  no, that is not Kara on TV, but it sure is a close resemblance!  And there is a story….. Five years ago, we were getting ready to go to China to adopt a little girl.  We had planned and dreamed about [...]

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Could It Be????

So, what do you think?? Is that Kara on the TV?? (I’ll tell you the answer and the story behind it in my next post.) 

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Brock’s Leaf Collection

Brock completed his first major 7th Grade A Beka Academy project today, and I think he did a very good job!  He was supposed to collect 10 leaves showing different venation, shape, arrangement, etc., and mount them in a book. This is a new science class–John had the older version of the class and did [...]

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September 2011 A Beka Academy Scripture Memory

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