Blogs

Article about Tennessee Virtual Academy in the Leaf Chronicle.

Local students participate in new virtual school

Moms applaud Internet-based program for flexibility, individualized instruction

There are many parents who write blogs about their thoughts and experiences with online education. Here are 2 recent posts that I thought would be of interest to our thinktanK¹² readers. I hope you agree!

Momania with Theresa Walsh Giarrusso

Do you feel like you have to defend your homeschooling?

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K¹² Week Summer Reading Challenge Week 11

Leave a comment on this weekly challenge post with the following:

• Book Title
• Genre
• Age Category
• A short review

They are mammals… They live in a forest habitat… They are called cubs when they are babies… They leave large tracks in almost any surface; their tracks are as large as an adult man's footprint and show imprints of all 5 toes and claws…

What are they?

• Giant anteaters
• American bullfrogs
• Fallow deer
• Grizzly bears
• Eastern gray squirrels
• African black rhinoceroses

(Answer at the bottom of the post)

15 year old diver and Hoosier Academies student Dashiell E., along with his partner, finished in first-place in the USA Diving Junior National Championships at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center. They won the inaugural boys 14-18 synchronized platform diving competition. 

According to the article, "he started diving when he was 8 years old. His god-sister was a diver and invited him for his 8th birthday to stop by where she dove and try it. He did, and he has hardly stopped since."