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Have you joined up for the 2008 virtual conference that Heart of the Matter is doing this year?  We have a link on the main page but here it is if you didn’t see it there http://www.hotmconference.com/.

The conference will be held July 31st through August 3rd online.  Right now there is an early bird special going for only $19.95.  The have a great list of speakers all lined up that I think we can all learn from.

Make sure to take a look at this great opportunity that you can take right a home and when the kids are doing something else.

I hope that each of you are having a blessed day.

We have been asked to see if there is an interest in having an anatomy and physiology camp in Missouri.  If you are interested please let us know.  If you have questions please feel free to contact Greg Landry at LandryGL@appstate.edu.  For more information go to http://www.homeschoolscienceacademy.com.

We have been invited to take a trip to Israel.  The following is the information if you are interested in going.  There are 2 remaining trips to go.

2-Remaining Israel Experiences for 2008…

“Few other groups experience Israel like those traveling with Homeschool Travel” —Israeli Ministry of Tourism

How would you like to do the following with your family?

*Raft the Jordan River

*Pick up 5 smooth stones from the same brook David picked up his 5 stones

*Work alongside archaeologists as they look for ancient treasures from beneath the Temple Mount

*Walk the entire length of Hezekiah’s Tunnel deep underneath Jerusalem’s Old City

*Find ancient pottery shards from the area around Moses’ Tabernacle

*Drink from the same spring from which Gideon’s army drank

*Sit in the “Seat of Moses”

*Speak Jesus’ words in the very Synagogue where Jesus taught

*Build a mountaintop bonfire to send a message to the captives in Babylon

*More experiences than can be named here! (you must look over the website)

Experience biblical history in the very places where it all happened!

2008 is the 60^th anniversary of the founding of the nation of Israel. Imagine being in the Promised Land to help celebrate God’s faithfulness to His people!

Spend 14 or 19 days in Israel with your homeschool students and they will receive High School credits in Biblical & Middle Eastern History & Biblical Archaeology

Students younger than high school may receive the same high school credits through Advanced Placement.

Homeschool Travel was created exclusively to give homeschooling families the experience of a lifetime as they travel & study in Israel.

Visit our website to read what others say about their own experiences with Homeschool Travel.

We currently have 2 more trips remaining in 2008 and families are signing up.

Our July Experience is only a few weeks away and September is coming soon.

Check out our website: www.homeschooltravel.com

All ages have traveled with us, including grandparents and relatives & friends of homeschoolers who aren’t even homeschoolers, themselves!

Join us as so many other homeschooling families have already done for—

THE EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME.

We have had families from the U.S., Australia, Canada, England, South Africa, and India on our trips. What a way to meet homeschoolers from all over the world! And, in the Promised Land! It doesn’t get any better than that!

Visit our website, www.homeschooltravel.com, to see travel dates, cost, testimonials and more.

Chris Davis

Homeschool Travel

chris@homeschooltravel.com

or, call me at 615-775-7345 (Crossville, Tennessee—central time)

We want to wish everyone a wonderful 4th!  We hope that everyone will enjoy their FREEDOM both in Christ and the USA the way that they should.

Thank you to all of our military men and women that are fighting for us.  Many have already given of their lives and many of had their lives changed forever from being in the battle front either emotionally or physically.  If you know of a family that has blessed us of our freedom, please take a moment to thank them for what they have done.  If mom or dad isn’t their beside the children give them a hug and let them know you appreciate what sacrifice they are giving for us.

We will start putting out more blogs hopefully in the next few weeks.  We are also planning to add some of our reviews to our blogging so that others can hear about the wonderful opportunities for homeschoolers.

Again, may each of you have a blessed 4th and please becareful with the fireworks!

May God keep blessing our country and some how bring her back to her knees.

You won’t want to miss the SHEM convention that is advertised in this newsletter!  Besides all the workshops and vendors that you will be able to listen to and visit with we will be there.  We will be bringing all sorts of helpful information, things for the kids, free samples of magazines, and all sort of door prizes.

• Above Rubies
  • Reclaiming God’s Plan for Women (4 DVD collection)
  • Peace All Over Me (CD)
  • Soothe Me (CD)
  • Be Fruitful & Multiply (Book)
  • The Power of Motherhood (Book)
  • The Family Meal Table & Hospitality (Book)
•     Sovereign Grace Music
  • Asleep in a Storm (10 CD’s)
•     The Old Schoolhouse
  • 1 yr free subscription
•     Deeper Roots
  • Rooted & Grounded (10-12th graders)
  • Discover Our Amazing God (Book 1)
•     Homeschool Today
  • 3 - 1 yr subscription
•     TEACH Magazine
  • Welcome Home Daddy (Book)
  • What’s for Dinner Mom (Book)
•      Knowledge Quest Inc.
  • The Star-Spangled State Book
  • Wonderful of Old - A Blank Timeline Book of World History - (Book & DVD)
    
  • Blackline Maps of World History
  • Blackline Maps of American History
  • Wonders of Old - A Blank Time Line Book of World History - (DVD)
    

You don’t want to miss out on these wonderful items!

Please check out the following magazine

http://www.thehomeschoolmagazine.com/US_Promotion.php

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine is one of the best magazines that I have seen in a long time. They have this wonderful section that they offer freebies from different vendors they have. I love the the homeschool unit area that they have every month. They have the regular magazine subscription for paper through the mail or you can subscribe for a digital subscription that I just love!! It makes it a lot easier to read and click on links as I go.

So if you want to have a wonderful magazine that will help you out no matter what age of homeschooler you are teaching, this is the magazine for you!

As an 501 c3 organization MATCH can’t promote one canidate over another but we want you to take a look at two canidates that are running and what they have to say about the homeschool work. As Missourians you probably have watched the Arkansas homeschool work, you will remember what Mike Huckabee did to help them out.

Please go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-q0h1cb6xE&feature=user to view Mike Huckabee’s stand on homeschool and to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQP5KVM5tB8&feature=related to see Ron Paul’s stand.

We hope these will be of help. You will also find other clips on these two canidates at these websites.

God bless,

Orilla Crider

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We had a great time being together with our two young children this year. Our family came down with the flue so we had to be alone but we all enjoyed our time together.

One of the looked forward times in our family tradition is reading Luke 2, this year our daughter wanted to read it. Then we put a candle on top of Baby Jesus birthday cake and sang happy birthday. It was such a delight to watch our son’s little face light up and sing “Happy Birthday”. Then we opened the few gifts we had and enjoyed watching the children play with their toy a piece.

As we look toward 2008 that will be here on Tuesday, I reminded that we can’t start a new time together and do things that we wished we had done this past year. No I’m not talking about resolutions that you know you will never be able to keep but the little things that you would like to do more this year that you didn’t do this past year.

Look for the small things that are fun to do with your family. Have a family night, adopt an older person outside of your family that your kids can draw pictures and make cards for that will mean a lot to both your children and to that person you adopt. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to have wonderful times together and memories made together.

Slow down and enjoy the flowers. Take things a little easier this year and try to be more patient with your kids and husband. We always look forward to the first little flowers that pop up saying spring is on the way. We call them God’s little surprises.

We hope that each of your will enjoy the holiday time together on Tuesday. Spend some time just as a family and getting to “know” each other better.

May God bless each of your richly!

Members have you checked the Members Only website? I have recently updated the section for Teachers with a bunch of helpful websites to print off certificates, worksheets and crafts. Check it out! Most of the places I have on the page is free to use a few of them you have to pay to be a member but I think you will find these places very helpful.

This year we are homeschooling our daughter from our own workbooks that I have put together. A lot of the workbook pages came from these very sites.

Hope you find them helpful and enjoy them.

God bless!

Wow! What a great weekend at the Silver Dollar City Homeschool Day! Everyone that went made that day that much better! We had people from all over the nation there this year, even as far as California! We loved meeting all of you and look forward to seeing more homeschoolers come next year. Make sure to tell your friends about this wonderful event.
We had a lot of people that were disappointed about not having the class groups this year. We are sorry that this didn’t happen, but since last year when people wrote back and told SDC what they were wanting, the classes weren’t one of the things. Soooo….if there is enough that want the physics class (the one that is on the roller coaster) or any others that you think might be interesting, please let me know and we will see what we can do. Also, if you are interested in having the scavenger hunts every year, you need to voice it!

Keep a watch on our website for new homeschool days throughout the year from SDC. We have exciting things happening starting this next year and we know that you won’t want to miss out on this.

Again, thanks for make SDC homeschool day a great day!

The Criders (MATCH Directors)