April is poetry month. And in a month like this, there are two types of people. There are those who say, “Poetry MONTH? Only one month for poetry?!? We do poetry all the time in our homeschool!” And then there are those who say, “POETRY month? We’ve done poetry in our morning time. Once, I…
Now that it’s November, all the stores – and maybe your family home – are decorated for the holidays. It’s a special time of the year, full of wonderful traditions and memory-making events. But for some folks, it’s also the time of year to rub shoulders with homeschool detractors. Are you facing family holiday gatherings…
I was talking with a friend the other day about doing school work with kids. Her kids are in public school; mine are homeschooled. But we both agreed that our biggest problem with school work is the same: telling the difference between skill issues and character issues. If your child resists doing his school work,…
This post is part of our how to homeschool lots of kids with babies and toddlers series. Be sure to read the rest of the series. Homeschool moms have vivid imaginations. We are able to think of all kinds of wonderful things we’d love for our kids to learn and experience. From classic literature to…
Before we had kids, we didn’t have “date nights”. We didn’t need them, meaning we didn’t need to share a Google calendar item and make advanced plans. At nine o’clock at night, we could hop up off the sofa and go to the gym together. Or we’d go out for dinner and then just hang…
You know what it’s like. You’ve spent the entire summer planning, curating beautiful curriculum, and organizing a lovely, color-coded schedule. Certainly, your homeschool days will be full to the brim with good things. You’ve planned for everything. Everything, that is, except the inevitable sibling squabbles. And now you feel like huge amounts of every school…
It’s not uncommon – especially as the end of the school year approaches – to experience math burnout. “Math” becomes simply the title on one of the books you’re trying to get through quickly so you can enjoy a summer break. Just make sure that in all your math “doing” you don’t sacrifice math understanding! Here’s…
I’m going to be perfectly honest. I’m not an “artsy” kinda gal. And including art in my homeschool has been super intimidating. Multiply that by the five school-aged kids at five different levels (six if you count the preschooler) and I was afraid it was never going to happen. I’d always figured that art was…
All the gifts are unwrapped. All of the new toys are (mostly) assimilated into the household storage system. And now it’s time to help your kids write thank-you notes to all of the relatives. To be fair, Dear Abby actually says that thank-you notes are only actually required when you receive a gift by mail…
If you’re anything like me, you grasp the concept of sharing truth and goodness with your students in Morning Time or elsewhere in your homeschool day. But we often leave out or don’t know how to approach “beauty.” Did you realize that this actually impacts your ability to impart the true and the good? Purpose-Driven…
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