Here are some favorites from last week: Early Literacy Stages When Love Looks Like a Red Skittle Garden in a Glove What is eligible? Anything applicable to homeschooling: daily life, symptoms stories, illness how-to posts, cialis encouragement, curriculum reviews, giveaways…basically anything that another homeschool family might find useful or interesting. Link-up a few … [Read more...] about Ultimate Homeschool Link-Up #16
Flying by the Seat of Your Pants Homeschooling
The girls from here were talking about homeschooling styles as we were brainstorming. Charlotte Mason came up. Classical came up. Several versions came up, and I jokingly said, "I use fly by the seat of my pants homeschooling," to which LaToya said, "I'd read that post, you need to write it." And it's mostly true, half of my lessons I come up with on the fly. I'm not … [Read more...] about Flying by the Seat of Your Pants Homeschooling
How to Host a Curriculum Swap
It’s almost that time of year again! I am proud to say that this is the first year, medicine in a very long time, patient that we are looking at the end of many of our books and curriculum. What a blessing! I am excited when I think of the brand new books that will be entering our home for the new year. If your family is anything like ours then your budget supports “new to … [Read more...] about How to Host a Curriculum Swap
How Screen Time affects the love of Reading
I had the privilege of working as an educational consultant with a large publisher of children's books for two years. A huge part of my job was meeting with teachers and parents to help in the process of choosing books for kids. I thoroughly enjoyed the job because I genuinely love books and love kids. I'm passionate about childhood literacy not only for our own children, … [Read more...] about How Screen Time affects the love of Reading
Ultimate Homeschool Link-Up #15
Here are some favorites from last week: Children's Book Management Teaching Special Needs Homeschooled Children to Read Tips for Gardening with Kids What is eligible? Anything applicable to homeschooling: daily life, stories, how-to posts, encouragement, curriculum reviews, giveaways…basically anything that another homeschool family might find useful or interesting. … [Read more...] about Ultimate Homeschool Link-Up #15