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Notes from our homeschool, practical ideas, resources, adventures, books, and what we’re learning along the way.
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Our Homeschool
Real updates from our family’s education and the lessons we learn along the way.
Books & Stories
Book reviews, reading discoveries, children’s writing, and stories worth exploring.
Learning in the Wild
Adventures, field experiences, nature, travel, and hands-on learning beyond the house.
Ideas & Resources
Curriculum ideas, useful tools, practical approaches, and things that make learning easier.
Growing Up Feral
Independence, character, relationships, resilience, responsibility, and growing up.
From the Kids
Reviews, stories, projects, observations, and other work created by the kids themselves.
Latest From the Journal
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Disney World: A Florida Adventure
3,146 miles from my home is one of the worlds most popular amusement parks, Disney World. I want to go on the Jungle Cruise Wildlife Expedition and I very much want to go and see Brave. I want to go in the Alice and the Wonderland attraction I have always thought it would be fun…
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August 2025 Vacation: Update 1
My family and I are a week into our month-long vacation at our lake property on Tenmile Lake in Lakeside, Oregon. I purchased this property in 2014 and then shortly after moved to the Oregon Coast and then started moving there part-time (through the week), building a sustainable hermitage where I intended to live the…
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Update for 2025-2026 School Year
Hello Internet, It has been a little over a year since we last posted anything on Feral Kids Academy, so I thought it would be appropriate to write an update and explain where we’ve been, what we have been doing, and where we are going from here. If you are new to this website, my…
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Enrolled in the Koinonia Institute
A few days ago Skye and Jeremiah finished up their very first course at the Koinonia Institute, an online Bible training program that, in their own words, is “focused on verse-by-verse study where serious Christians can grow in knowledge, understanding, awareness and commitment! Here at Kl, we delve into the relevance and reliability of Scripture,…
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Christian Singing in Another World
I wanted to be sure to post this somewhere, but I was not logged into the church website tonight, only the kids’ homeschooling site. But I know if I don’t post it now I never will. This is a church in Africa. Click on the image below to listen to their singing….
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A Day at a Museum
A field trip for Feral Kids’ Academy……. We struck out this morning on journey of a lifetime. Well. Not really. Actually, we got up about 8am and got everyone dressed and loaded up in the car and headed down the road to destination unknown. Well, that’s not true either. I knew where we were going.…
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Magic Tree House Book 5 – Book Report – by Jeremiah
Here is a book report by our son, Jeremiah. It is the very first book report he has written. Recently, he graduated from rote copywork (from books) and now has more control over the writing assignments he does. Currently, he is required to turn in 5 hand-written pages each week, with one being a book…
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Welcome to Our Online Homeschooling Digital Portfolio
Welcome. I just wanted to write the first post here as a way of introduction so you have an idea of what you might find on this site. We are a homeschooling family of three with 3 kids who are “homeschooled” using an eclectic, customized curriculum (I will write more on this later). Here is…
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