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Simple Autumn Preschool

This year in addition to my middle schooler and elementary schoolers, I now have an “official preschooler.” I love having my littlest home with us learning alongside his brothers and sister. He listens along and...

Homeschooling Preschoolers

There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of middle ground when it comes to preschoolers. Either parents are anxious to begin their homeschooling journey and go out and buy full curriculums for their four and five year olds, or...

The Best Teaching Tip No One Ever Tells You

Be quiet. That’s right. Stop talking some times, especially at critical thinking moments. This is one of THE hardest things for me to do. Here’s how I typically get it wrong. “So Glenn, you’ve got two fractions and you...

Staying Organized on the Go: Car Schooling

Let’s be real. Not too many of us actually do 100 percent of our schooling at home. Even when our family had one car, which my husband drove to work every day, the girls and I rarely spent every day of every week inside of our...

For “the Littles”

One of the best ways that I kept my younger child occupied (while still giving them an educational, interactive outlet) while I did school with my older child was with something called “activity bags.” You can make...

A Meditation on Dahlias

Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.–Mary Ann Brussat This will be an unusual post from me, and since I am no photographer, and...

When Books Spark Original Ideas

“Neo” from the Greek is new. “Logos” from the Greek is word. Put them together and what do you get? Neologism. A new word. So what’s this got to do with original ideas and books? Read on. I am planning on beginning our...

Journal Writing – Unleashing the Writer Within

“Everyone reaches, but not everyone touches. . . . Reaching is instinctive, but for the most part touching is learned. For in touching we give and receive, talk and listen, share ourselves and see into another. And not...

Rocket Languages – Review and Free Trial Offer

We have been studying foreign languages in our homeschool for years, using quite a wide range of products from software to workbooks to audio read alouds. My kids have experienced vocabulary lessons and other cultures in several...

The Joy of Flexibility

For the first two years of homeschooling, I created extremely detailed schedules for every day. It sounded something like this: 8am – Breakfast, 8:15am – Bible and Prayer Time 8:30am Craft Time, 8:45am Math, etc. Then within...