I homeschool my two boys, who have a 3 year age gap between them. This means that I have to keep two children at very different skill levels happy and focused on learning at the same time. I have found many Montessori activities fall naturally into this category, because often Montessori classrooms are comprised of [...]
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Over the years, I’ve found YouTube to be a great source for homeschool supplementation. Of course, you will need to supervise your child’s time on YouTube, there are plenty of unsavory things on there too. However, today I’d like to share some of the videos we’ve utilized and enjoyed. PRESCHOOL: Farm Animal Sounds For Children [...]
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My kids take a variety of classes outside the home – currently music and Spanish with a Toastmaster’s speech class coming up soon. To my knowledge, none of their instructors are current homeschooling families and I’m not sure the lady teaching the speech class has ever homeschooled, yet they’re still giving to the homeschool community. [...]
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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 As homeschooling parents, we work endlessly to ensure our children master the basics of reading, mathematics, and grammar. We allow caterpillars to live in jars on our counter tops and build pyramids [...]
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For a lot of people, the winter months usually mean cold temperatures and a lot of time spent indoors. This is a great time to set up a indoor obstacle course to get little bodies moving and give an outlet to any pent-up energy. So jump into your comfy sweats and get ready for a [...]
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Where in the world does the homeschool mama find time to have passions? There are not enough hours in the day already and now you expect me to be passionate about something other than my kids and laundry? Well, if truth be told, I am really not that passionate about laundry at all, but I [...]
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