by Kandis | Mar 22, 2023 | Blog Posts, Learn, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
When you have several different children, finding ways to teach the same content to multiple children at the same time is a life saver. If you try to keep every subject separate for every child, you’ll find yourself drowning in planning and pulled in a thousand...
by Kandis | Mar 15, 2023 | Blog Posts, Do, Learn, Think, Upper Elementary, Values & Beliefs, Younger Elementary
To form an opinion one must analyze and evaluate the available information before creating a personal thought. Then when defense is required, one must evaluate the strongest support for the chosen argument. While being able to form an opinion is an important skill to...
by Kandis | Feb 8, 2023 | Blog Posts, Do, Know, Learn, Playful Homescholing, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
Kids ask an inordinate number of questions every day. What’s for dinner? Why is the sky blue? Can a grasshopper jump up to our deck? Why do people like non-stick stkillets? Is it better to use parsnips or carrots with pork? Can you make cookies puffier if you...
by Kandis | Jan 18, 2023 | Blog Posts, Learn, Values & Beliefs
Kids love to play follow the leader whether or not a game is actually in progress. I regularly find my now five year old following me around walking like I walk or fluffing pillows behind me right after I finish fluffing them. He’s mimicking me as a way of...
by Kandis | Nov 23, 2022 | Blog Posts, Do, Learn, New to Homeschooling, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary
One of the first things that I realized as a homeschooling mom is that I cannot possibly do all the things all the time. When we started homeschooling, we had two boys in elementary school [first and third grade], a preschooler and a newborn and quite honestly by the...
by Kandis | Nov 16, 2022 | Blog Posts, Do, Learn, Think, Values & Beliefs, Younger Elementary
Novel studies are often reserved for students in middle and high school; but, this this doesn’t need to be the case. It is possible to make this leap as soon as a child is ready to read a chapter book semi-independently. Yes, that is right, semi-independently....
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