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Compared to a hundred years ago, most of us don’t know much about farming except that chickens lay eggs and cows make milk. That’s why it is beneficial for city children to participate in 4H or attend county fairs or state fairs.

Boy at County Fair

Little Hands on the Farm is a fun way to teach kids about agriculture This web article by Lisa Foust Prater tells all about the Little Hands on the Farm program. It started in Indiana and is now part of many state fairs. It helps children to understand how food gets to the grocery store.

Count it for school! Include it as a field trip for your “Early American” or “Westward Expansion” studies. If you are studying plants or animals, it counts.

Helpful resources for your farm study include: Old Fashioned Farm Life Coloring Book, Prairie Primer Unit Study (unit study for Little House on the Prairie), and God’s Design for Life Series with the World of Plants and the Animal Kingdom.

Gotta love homeschooling.

Blessings,

Harriet

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According to this Fox News Story, a federal judge in California ruled yesterday that students who used Christian textbooks such as  BJU Press Biology for courses in a private Christian school can be denied course credit by the University of California . It is “because those texts failed to teach critical thinking and omitted important science and history topics.”

The lawyers for ACSI (Association of Christian Schools International), the two schools, and several students who filed the initial lawsuit will appeal the case. Go team! Let’s pray for them.

Apparently, BJU Press Chemistry was OK with U.S. District Judge James Otero of Los Angeles.

You can  Read Full Story at the San Francisco Chronicle website.

Isn’t he the same judge who ruled that homeschooling is not legal in California unless you have a valid teaching credential?

Wake up, America!

Blessings,

Harriet

PS: Thanks to my lovely homeschooled daughter who gave me this news. Using her “critical thinking skills” she deduced that I would be concerned about this “important science and history” topic. I give credit to her study of The Fallacy Detective and Thinking Toolbox.

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I’ve always been fascinated by the Richter Scale. It’s amazing how it works.

This week I checked at the U.S. Geological Survey for news about the California earthquake. Like a lot of you, we have family and friends who live there. That site has “real time” reporting of recent earthquakes around the world.

There’s more to be learned there than earthquake updates. The science topics range from droughts and volcanoes to energy and minerals. It’s very educational!

Disclaimer: While it’s full of information, be on the lookout for controversial topics such as global warming, evolution, etc. Be willing to discuss these with your children.

Pray for families around the world who have experienced an earthquake.

Blessings,

Harriet

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