Are you wondering how to combine Valentine’s Day with homeschooling? Looking for ways to incorporate something different into your school day to capture your kids’ attention and spark their interest? Well, keep reading! I have ideas for you! Do you have ideas yet for Valentine’s Day? Coming up with ideas can be hard! Sometimes we […]
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Doing a homeschool evaluation mid-year sounds like extra work and effort that you don’t have time to do! But what if that evaluation could save you time, heartache, headaches, and conflict? Does that make it seem more worthwhile? Simply put, an evaluation is an assessment, a judgment of quality, or an appraisal of worth or […]
These 15 easy Christmas activities will give you some ideas for keeping your family happily occupied during all that “extra spare” time between now and Christmas. Okay, I get it. Extra spare time before Christmas is a joke. Sp spare time is a rare occurrence between all the shopping, baking, wrapping, decorating, partying, and get-togethers […]
Teach the Christmas story – Have you Incorporated that into your homeschooling plans this December? It’s so easy for us to get wrapped up in all the busyness of the Christmas season that the Christmas story gets shoved aside in favor of everything else that’s going on. We get busy with church activities, parties, family […]
Christmas books are a great way to get your family in the Christmas spirit. You can make reading Christmas books part of your school day or just use them as a family activity to wind down a busy day and get everyone ready for bed. Some families prepare a stack of 25 Christmas stories and […]
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(With apologies to all poets everywhere!) ‘Tis the day before Thanksgiving, and my house is a mess. Company dinner tomorrow – I am so stressed! The pies are all made, but there is flour on the floor. The kids played in the mud, so there was mud on the door. The turkey’s not thawed, though […]
Add your homeschool blessings to your list of things to be thankful for this year. As Thanksgiving approaches each year, we receive repeated reminders to count our blessings. And indeed, we have so many things to be thankful for daily! As homeschoolers, we have even more incredible blessings! So, join me in counting your homeschool […]
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Can you survive the holidays, homeschool simultaneously, and have everyone get through the season and still retain some sanity? Absolutely! It is not impossible. These four suggestions will help you make it through the upcoming holiday season, continue your homeschooling, and do it all with a smile—most of the time. Maybe – no guarantees on […]
Do math word problems leave you and your children confused? Do they not make any sense to you? And, if you can’t figure out these problems, how can you teach your children how to solve word problems? Why do math books include word problems anyhow? Using word problems in math books shows kids how math […]
Secret homeschooling facts? Really? Information you see about homeschooling doesn’t always paint a complete picture. Does that info tell you about how hard homeschooling can be? Or how lonely? And what about glitter? Have you read negative reviews about glitter? Let me tell you, glitter is not your friend! (And some other homeschooling facts no […]
