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Naming your homeschool

Monday August 4, 2008
In preparing for the school year to begin, how do you establish a school identity? Do you name your school? Do you have a mascot, make student identification cards or school T-shirts? Jacci Howard Bear, About.com guide to Desktop Publishing, has step-by-step instructions on how to make a student ID Card for your homeschool students.

Share your ideas with us by leaving a comment here or in the Homeschooling Forum.

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August 6, 2008 at 12:38 pm
(1) Natalie says:

I’ve never officially named our school, so I think that will be one of our first projects this year.

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August 6, 2008 at 4:47 pm
(2) Kim says:

We have been at this homeschooling thing for three years now. I think it’s high time we gave ourselves a name:)

August 10, 2008 at 5:24 pm
(3) Stephanie says:

We just named our homeschool last week– Willow Tree Academy. It’s named after the beautiful willow tree in our back yard. I just started a new blog, but there’s not much to it yet! willowtreeacademy.blogspot.com

August 20, 2008 at 12:34 pm
(4) Christine says:

Great post! I love the idea of i.d. cards. . .

August 20, 2008 at 1:54 pm
(5) Renee says:

We have been HS for 8 years now :) My son will be in 6th this year :)
We named our school when we first started when he was 4 years old ,it is
G*L*O*W Academy

G=God
L=Leads
0=Our
W=Way
Academy :)

Our Color has changed 2 times and so has our mascot :)
We are now
Eagles
and colors Blue and White :)

August 20, 2008 at 1:56 pm
(6) Renee says:

ID Card

We have made one Each year, you would be surprised who all gives discounts with them :)

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