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As homeschoolers, we often sacrifice non-essentials for essentials due to budgetary constraints.  However, sometimes we even sacrifice essentials for the same reason.
That’s why I’ve compiled a list of must-have homeschooling gear, along with my reasons for choosing these as essential to homeschooling because it really is important to have the right tools to do a [...]

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Something about summer can make even the most scheduled mama want to throw caution to the wind.  While there is a lot of merit to loosening the reins during the summer months, you don’t want to lose the team altogether.  That’s where a good summer schedule comes in.
Make a list of summer activities and anything [...]

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Science in the City

by Amy on June 14, 2010

in science

Many families choose to use their summers to study science when nature is in full bloom. In fact, for some homeschooling families, this is all they do during the summer months, cramming a whole year’s worth of science into three months.
For those of us living in the city, science (especially the nature studies) can [...]

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I can’t take credit for this idea.  It was all my 9 year old daughter’s doing.  But, it’s turned out to be a wonderfully fun educational tool!
We gave our daughter an old digital camera on her 8th birthday last year, and from there, it’s been pure creativity!  Picture Plays was born out that creativity.
All you [...]

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Many children have difficulty getting information from Point A to Point B. There are things inside their little brains that just don’t seem to get expressed coherently or appropriately. Earlier this year, I stumbled upon something that has become a light bulb moment in speaking to this issue.
LOGIC
I was pretty sure my children only needed [...]

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Workboxes are a fantastic homeschooling innovation, but like any idea, what works for one family may not work for another.
While the concept of workboxes intrigued me, I was hard-pressed to figure out a way to make them work for a family our size.  That is, until I ran across this [...]

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