Photo Credit By now, you’ve passed the half way mark in your school year if you follow a traditional school year calendar. This isn’t usually the time that you’d think about making a plan for the next school year, but maybe you should be thinking about it. Winter tends to be a blah time. We [...]
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Our first year of schooling has hit a brick wall, a brick wall that comes in the form of severe morning sickness. (I have never understood why it’s called morning sickness – it lasts all day!) Yep folks, we are expecting our fourth little blessing sometime around May of next year! Now, not only do [...]
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1. Make a school schedule you can stick to and then stick to it. All too often we either try to adhere to a schedule that makes no sense for our family or we abandon a perfectly working schedule because we are chasing other things. Sometimes that chasing is honorable and sometimes it is selfish. [...]
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When we first began homeschooling, it seems like an exciting, scary, wonderful, overwhelming endeavor – one that I knew little about. In the ensuing 9 years, we’ve had good moments and bad moments. We’ve laughed and we’ve cried. We’ve tried and erred. And, I’ve learned a few truths that I wish I’d known from the [...]
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Homeschoolers are busy. A homeschooling family is not unlike families that have both parents working outside the home. Even though we are with our children each and every day, normally our daytime hours are filled with doing lessons, preparing lessons, developing new lessons, plus all the other tasks needed to maintain a clean and reasonably [...]
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I only have two children who are currently being “schooled.” Both are boys, only 16 months apart, but these two are so different you’d think they were being raised in two separate homes. Left Brain My first grader is my dream student. I graduated with a degree in engineering. I’m your typical left-brainer. I gravitate [...]
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