This Week’s Money Carnivals Curtis Ophoven 10/18/2008 - 2 Comments This week I participated in one blog carnivals. Carnival of Homeschoolers #145 hosted by Homeschoolbuzz. They did an excellent job and, as usual, there are tons of great posts. If you have the time, I highly suggest you skim through them. Carnival of Homeschoolers Our article, "Teach Children to Work Hard When They Are Young" was listed. Here are a few other articles that I found interesting. Kim lists 16 Reasons to Read Aloud via Works in Progress. Denise linked Writing to Learn Math II via Let's play math! Subscribe via RSS Copyright © 2008 SaveMoneyHomeschooling.com. All rights reserved. Reader Comments Be the first to leave a comment! Write a Comment Please keep comments civil and on-topic. Abusive or inappropriate comments will be removed without warning.  Name (required)     Email Address (required)     Website URL  Comment

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