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Growing up in the country makes the idea of going green pretty easy for me. My grandmother preached ‘waste not, want not’ to us, so I find it easy to pass that on to my children as well.
1. Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
My children are exposed from a young age on how to use our resources wisely. We pass [...]
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“Whatever you do, find ways to read poetry. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it.”
~Eve Merriam
Poetry is terribly misunderstood. Most of us were introduced to complex, often incomprehensible poetry when we were in school and learned quickly to dislike it. But poetry doesn’t have to be a jungle of symbolism and metaphor, heavy [...]
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Photo credit: Frank Van Den Hurk
Although we have been homeschooling for over a decade, this is the first summer that I am taking time to just leisurely make plans for next school year. Typically I make plans each week of the school year as we go along. This was kind of an unexpected way to [...]
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In the next few weeks, our school year will come to an end. As we are finishing the last pages of the math workbook, or gluing down the last piece of the lap book, I am ridiculously sentimental about the ending of our first year of homeschooling.
I wish I was one of those mothers who [...]
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Preparing for the following homeschool year always begins around February for me. I have tried a zillion different materials, as I am sure many of you have. This year when I took a step back realizing the flaws of my thinking, I realized I had a flaw in my curriculum choices as well.
Curriculum should be [...]
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Since homeschooling families tend to spend the majority of their waking hours together, if we’re not careful, our children’s birthdays can end up resembling a regular day, especially if their birthday falls on a school day. To celebrate our children’s birthdays, I like to put forth a little bit of time and effort, but not [...]
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