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Friday, 17 August 2018 / Published in Articles, Blog

What We Don’t Need for School

  I’m loving those back-to-school sales, aren’t you? Now is the time to stock up! Just because we homeschool doesn’t mean we don’t use school supplies, right? I’ve flipped through the pages of catalogs and scrolled through the websites, ordering the books and materials we will use for the next several months, if not the
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Thursday, 16 August 2018 / Published in - Character Development, Articles, Blog

Don’t Be Lemons

  This year will be our 11th year of homeschooling. One would think I’d have all my ducks in a row by now, but my ducks tend to be freethinking, hyperactive ducks. Every year has been a new adventure and I’m thinking that my 11th year won’t be an exception. Ironically, as the mother of
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Wednesday, 15 August 2018 / Published in - Christian Upbringing, - Teaching Methods, Articles, Blog

Teaching on Historical Figures Like Scripture Does – Part Two

  After acquainting us with Moses’ world, he makes his debut on the scriptural pages. As our man takes the stage, the Bible utilizes several storytelling mechanisms that set it apart from traditional methods of teaching history. Tell me the story or tell me the facts Getting barebone facts of history is not a problem
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Tuesday, 14 August 2018 / Published in - Reading, - Teaching Methods, Articles, Blog

Reading Should Count as Schoolwork

  “Reading through the Lord of the Rings should count as schoolwork,” or so said my 13-year-old son just now. Although I don’t plan on letting him follow Frodo and Pippin’s adventures to the exclusion of all else, he does have a point. Long ago, about the time I first devoured the Lord of the
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Monday, 13 August 2018 / Published in - Character Development, - Teaching Methods, Articles, Blog

How to Teach Accountability

  How do you teach a child to be accountable for their own actions and embrace personal responsibility? Starting young is ideal, but even teens who have been coddled for far too long can learn to be held accountable. 1. Lead by example. It has been said that, when it comes to children, “Much more
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Friday, 10 August 2018 / Published in - Games and Activities, Articles, Blog

Summer School Days

  My daughter, Clarissa, has been asking me to teach her to read, off and on, since before she was potty-trained. She constantly asked to start kindergarten this spring, so I spent May planning what I wanted our year together to look like. In June, we officially started kindergarten. I knew that I wanted to
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Thursday, 09 August 2018 / Published in - Games and Activities, Articles, Blog

10 Ways to Learn at the Beach

  The beach is a great place to explore. You and your children can have all kinds of learning adventures along the shore, in the tide pools, and climbing the sand dunes. Here are some great ways to learn at the beach: Engineer a Castle that withstands the Waves Here’s a great STEM project: construct
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Wednesday, 08 August 2018 / Published in - Teaching Methods, Articles, Blog

Teaching on Historical Figures Like Scripture Does – Part One

  There are three pillars of the scriptural view of history: God is the center character, Scripture promises a hopeful end from the beginning, and Scripture teaches history in the context of individual men and women in their relationships to God as the center character. In the next several articles, we’ll discover how to teach
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