Teaching Math Around the House
Jan 5th, 2009 | By Sonshine | Category: HomeschoolingSonshine offers lots of great ideas to help your kids practice their math concepts without cracking a textbook.
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Writing Thank You Notes
Dec 31st, 2008 | By Sonshine | Category: HomeschoolingEase back into post-holiday homeschooling and teach your children writing skills without having to use textbooks.
Number Bonds: The Key to Teaching Math Facts
Nov 18th, 2008 | By Joy Miller | Category: HomeschoolingLearn how to use number bonds to help your children remember — and understand — math facts.
Homeschool Conventions
Nov 12th, 2008 | By Toni | Category: HomeschoolingI realize that most homeschool conventions are five to six months away, but the time is now to begin your convention planning. I talk to many homeschool moms who do not or cannot attend conventions because they cannot find a sitter, their husband has to work, they don’t have the money, they don’t know anyone [...]
Teaching with “Go Fish”
Nov 4th, 2008 | By Joy | Category: HomeschoolingMy family loves playing games. But of course, as homeschoolers, we especially love games that are not just fun, but educational as well.
A couple of years ago my 4-year-old found an old deck of cards that my husband and I had purchased in Alaska over a decade ago. It was similar to an ordinary deck [...]
School is Fun
Oct 21st, 2008 | By Toni | Category: HomeschoolingOkay everyone, repeat after me, “School is fun, school is fun, school is fun.” It seems like right about now the newness has worn off and we are in our school routine. And sometimes our routines are boring. I am a workbook gal, but my kids are not, each year I try to find a [...]
Homeschooling—Don’t go it alone
Oct 14th, 2008 | By Joy | Category: HomeschoolingThe decision to homeschool is rarely made lightly. Often a mom will do a lot of research about homeschooling, discuss it at length with her husband, and earnestly pray for guidance before making the final decision to homeschool. But there’s another step that is just as essential to ensuring success (and preventing burnout) in homeschooling [...]
Homeschooling—Don’t go it alone
Oct 14th, 2008 | By Joy Miller | Category: HomeschoolingThe decision to homeschool is rarely made lightly. Often a mom will do a lot of research about homeschooling, discuss it at length with her husband, and earnestly pray for guidance before making the final decision to homeschool. But there’s another step that is just as essential to ensuring success (and preventing burnout) in homeschooling [...]
Keeping Home Education Simple
Oct 7th, 2008 | By Toni | Category: HomeschoolingWith the new colicy baby, I have had to keep our schedule very basic and bare-bones. It used to bother me that I did not include a gazillion other subjects into my children’s day, but slowly I have come to realize that less is more. I do not have to schedule in science experiments [...]
Curriculum Review: Rod and Staff English
Sep 30th, 2008 | By Joy Miller | Category: HomeschoolingThis is my family’s fourth year of homeschooling, and in those four years we have used several different English writing and grammar curricula (such as Bob Jones, Shurley Grammar, IEW, Instructional Fair Diagramming, Write Source, and various grammar workbooks). All of these curricula have their strong points, and we didn’t necessarily switch specifically because of [...]
