How to Get Started Homeschooling
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For various reasons, whether religious or educational, more and more families each year are deciding that homeschooling is an educational option they want or need to try. So where to begin? First, find out your state’s regulations regarding homeschooling. Some states require absolutely nothing from homeschooling...
Read Aloud for Littles
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The preschoolers squeeze and elbow their way beside me, vying for the place on my lap, and settling cozily in. It is reading time. Our youngest kids and I have a few favorite nostalgic authors and titles as of late for your consideration. Most of these I’ve been able to order through our local libray system and...
End of Winter Science
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That is an optomistic title, because, really, winter is still usually roaring around here into March. January and February seem to be the most difficult months for me as a homeschool mother, partially because of the constant gray lingering in the sky and partially….well, maybe it’s all the gray. So while I keep...
Homeschooling with Toddlers
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The key to successful homeschooling with toddlers is preparedness. Knowing this now, as I do, all the year round I keep an eye out at garage sales, thrift stores, and craft blogs for activities, inexpensive ones, that will keep a toddler’s attention. I don’t spend much money on busy activities for my toddlers, and...
Getting to Know Hannah
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Your family is… full of joyful mayhem! Name 5 homeschool products you cannot live without: Flip Over Math, the great outdoors, our microscope, books that reaffirm our faith such as those by Liberty Press and Rod and Staff, and great classic books for family read-alouds. What was your favorite toy as a child? baby doll, of...
Seeing Creation Through the Eyes of a Child
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Among the many and varied reasons for choosing to teach our children at home, right at the top was our desire to give them a Biblical world view. Down the line somewhere under that was the desire to not bore them with learning. When we brought those two desires together with the subject of science, I was a bit apprehensive...
Biga Bread
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Wintering here in upstate New York, the snowdrifts pile up to the stop signs and the temperatures lately have been too cold to let the kids play outside. We hibernate indoors, slippers, sweaters and lessons. By the wood stove, a bowl of delicious dough soaks up warmth. Fresh warm bread from the oven, sliced thick with...
Walking through the Valley
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“..though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me…” (Psalm 23:4) These age old words we’ve all heard, I remember memorizing off a scripture card when I was six. But somehow, at thirty-one, which I am now, I’ve been traveling a spiritual road ever...
Review: Free Range Learning by Laura Grace Weldon
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“A natural education is complex and purposeful. When each person is empowered to learn as it suits him or her, the process of discovery is invigorating.” Quoted from Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes Everything: This book is a meaty one, textbook size and three hundred and four pages long and I steadily...
Book Review: Easy Homeschooling Companion
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Someone who thinks the way I do, who loves her children and home and life in similar ways, recommended this book, which I ordered and picked up from the library. I’m so glad I did. It came along with me on trips to the beach, rides in the van, and visits to grandparents. It, 3×5 cards, and a pen were my companion for...



















