New Kids on the Blog

WordPress Automattician? Homeschooler? Blogging co-op?

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I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a blogging class for kids for a while. I homeschool my kids and for some reason it is so hard for me to get my kids blogging. I suppose it’s the old shoemakers kids scenario. Finally, I decided the best way to get them blogging would be to offer a class to my homeschool group. Committing to working with the children of my friends would mean my kids could ride along.

After talking about it and talking about it, we finally did it. Last week, I had six kiddos in my house, sitting around the dining room table: taxing my wifi, setting up blogs and publishing their first post and second and third in some cases). In case anyone is interested in replicating this experiment, here’s how it goes:

Tools

  • laptop or device per child
  • WordPress.com accounts for each child – we…

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Sunday Scriptures – Old

In honor of the 400th anniversary of the translation of the Bible into English, commissioned by King James of England in 1611, and originally published by Robert Barker, printer to the King, I will use this version for the rest of this year in these posts. Hope we can enjoy the quaint differences we find here and appreciate all that went into it.

Remove not the ancient land marke, which thy fathers haue set.  Proverbs  22:28

Remove not the old land marke, which thy fathers haue set. Proverbs  23:10

I haue beene young, and am now old; yet haue I not seene the righteous forsaken, nor his seede begging  bread.