by Kandis | Nov 20, 2024 | Blog Posts, Do, Learn, Middle School, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
I’m pretty sure that everyone has a Nana in their life because Nana is the person who can tell a story about anything because she has lived it all and if she hasn’t she has a way to connect what you are talking about to something she has lived. Nana can...
by Kandis | Oct 23, 2024 | Blog Posts, Do, Middle School, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
Sometimes I think that my local weathermen would have more accurate predictions if they said something like “It’s cloudy and later we have a chance of meatballs” because quite frankly that is more likely what is going to happen than what they predict...
by Kandis | Sep 18, 2024 | Blog Posts, Do, Learn, Middle School, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
Read the following words and then close your eyes for a moment. Quietly the child walked hand in hand with her grandmother down the seashore. There was no need for words – the crashing waves and squawking seabirds were carrying the conversation. This would be...
by Kandis | Sep 13, 2024 | Blog Posts, Do, Playful Homescholing, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
Learning to access your schema – what you already know – about something is an important skill to a thoughtful reader. To thoughtfully read something, you must compare what is in your current schema file about a subject to what is being communicated by the...
by Kandis | Aug 30, 2024 | Blog Posts, Do, Middle School, Playful Homescholing, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
The science curriculum that we prefer has a million experiments, projects and “Try This” sections embedded into the textbook. This is part of what we love about it. It is also what has made me lazy. I love science and the doors it opens for exploration,...
by Kandis | Aug 28, 2024 | Blog Posts, Do, Learn, New to Homeschooling, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Values & Beliefs, Younger Elementary
I don’t know about your family but our family was enthralled with the Olympics this summer. We watched bits and pieces of countless events. Everything from surfing to ping pong, high jump to water polo and all the things in between. One part we didn’t...
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