by Kandis | Jan 16, 2025 | Blog Posts, Do, Middle School, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
Last week I told you all that I wanted my kids to pretend they were two again and ask all the questions – if you missed it the blog post can be found here. And boy did they take to it! They have jumped strongly with two feet into throwing a million questions out...
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,...
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