You’ve done it. You’re homeschooling. You’ve got your little darlings nestled at your feet while you read good and beautiful literature. You’re taking field trips to museums and art galleries. You’ve got a basket of science projects up your sleeve and a list of nature crafts ready to go. And Read more…
My 4-year-old is shy. Painfully shy. Terrified of new people and new situations. We’re talking too scared to eat snack on the first night of Vacation Bible School. It’s rough. At home though, she’s clever, funny, bold, loud, and clearly knows how to take advantage of being the baby of Read more…
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Using Stick Jars to Execute Your Plans I’m a planner. You know the type. Lists, notebooks, journals. I’ve got lists of the lists I need to make. Can anybody out there relate? And planning is a great thing. You identify potential problems and ways to prevent them. You make things Read more…
If kids aren’t doing book learning daily, they’re going to be too far behind their peers to have any chance of catching up, much less getting into a good college. And if they don’t get into a good college, what’s to become of them? Won’t we have failed them through all those homeschooling years? Am I right?
The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie is such an encouragement! There is something lovely to be found on every page. It will be placed on your annual reading list. I promise.
By now you know that every homeschool looks a bit different. How could they not with the smorgasbord of methods and curriculum options out there? But there’s one thing that all of us wonder about everyone else. One thing that we find ourselves wanting to compare. It’s the one thing Read more…
Let’s face it – this is one of the top questions on everyone’s mind when it comes to homeschooling. How long does it take every day? And we have lots of reasons to ask this question. You might wonder what you are signing up for – are we really going Read more…
One of my favorite things to do every year is to pick out our curriculum. There’s just something about a new book, a new topic, and new resources that just gets me excited. Please tell me someone out there can relate? And when I am researching for the early grades Read more…
Whether you are new to homeschooling or you’ve been around a few years – you know that choosing curriculum is hard! The “crazy” homeschoolers of the late 20th Century were faced with almost no resources to help them. We have the opposite problem – there are almost too many things to choose from (but thankfully we aren’t considered “crazy”! Most of the time anyway…).