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Homeschooling with Toddlers

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...

Q & A with Kendra: Little Ones

Help! How do you get the little ones to stay still while you “attempt” to teach them? They want to bounce off the wall while I am trying to teach them to count, do phonics and even simple things like learning the...

Availability and its Effect on Learning

As I was pondering what to write for a post this month, my five-year-old sat on the floor nearby playing with some frozen orange juice lids that I had made into math manipulatives. He set them up from 0 to 9 going one way,...

The First Five Years

I was talking with some parents trying to get a feel for what the most important thing their child(ren) learned before the age of 5. I got a lot of “potty training,” “socialization,” “reading” and “how to be away...

Five Manners Your Preschooler Should Master

When my oldest son was a preschooler, we were at a birthday party. We were waiting for our turn to hit the piñata, when I saw a man in front of me tell his children to move to the back of the line so the younger children could...

Homeschooling a Toddler

I recently mentioned to someone that I was planning to homeschool my soon to be 5 year old son. One of the first questions that she asked was what I was going to do with my 2 year old son. I just smiled and told her “I’m...

Home “Schooling” Little Ones

Sarah Mae raises her babes, loves her man, home-keeps, Java-hugs, homeschool teaches, idea slings and blog writes. She is a truth seeker and a grace lover. Her passion is to see women living intentional lives to the glory...

Excited to do it all over again

This fall I am anticipating the beginning of learning lessons with my soon-to-be-four-year -old. When his two older brothers were each three I began doing intentional learning activities with them. But, when this son, my...

High Hopes

I’ve been teaching our children preschool at home for a few years now. I began planning and doing educational activities with them both since they were each about 2-1/2. This past school year, as they turned ages 3 and 5,...

Learning from my Preschooler

What a difference a year makes! This time last year, my son had about 8 words in his vocabulary. He was still wearing diapers. Now he talks non-stop, creating elaborate stories about castles, knights, and superheros. He...