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Didn’t You Always Want to be a Model?

Didn’t You Always Want to be a Model?

by Kandis | Aug 21, 2024 | Blog Posts, Do, New to Homeschooling, Not Yet School Age, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary

I am not a fashion model. I am not tall enough and though I’m thin, I’m likely not thin enough by industry standards. That has always been my shape. I am also not good at putting together fashionable outfits. I don’t care for shopping and if you shop...
I Didn’t Know I was Thinking

I Didn’t Know I was Thinking

by Kandis | Aug 19, 2024 | Blog Posts, Do, New to Homeschooling, Not Yet School Age, Playful Homescholing, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary

The hardest part about metacognition – thinking about thinking – is learning to listen to your brain. Your brain is constantly telling you things and making you aware of what it is doing but most of what it is saying we leave in our subconscious minds. We...
Thinking about Thinking – The Place to Start

Thinking about Thinking – The Place to Start

by Kandis | Aug 9, 2024 | Become, Blog Posts, Do, Learn, New to Homeschooling, Not Yet School Age, Reading Comprehension, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary

One of the scariest thoughts parents have is “Where do I start?” Every parent asks this question what I have to imagine is thousands of times before their child is grown. Where do I start to teach him to sleep? Where do I start to help her learn good...

Picture Book Favorites – Winter Edition

by Kandis | Feb 1, 2023 | Blog Posts, Get Organized, New to Homeschooling, Not Yet School Age, Playful Homescholing, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary

There is no such thing as a bad day to curl up with a good book or to read aloud with my kids but my absolute favorite days to snuggle in beneath the blankets and read are the cold snowy days that we get nearly every winter in this part of Ohio. When we are snowed in...

Read Together Even When They Can Read Themselves

by Kandis | Dec 21, 2022 | Become, Blog Posts, New to Homeschooling, Not Yet School Age, Playful Homescholing, Upper Elementary, Values & Beliefs, Younger Elementary

It is a glorious and proud parent moment when you realize that you child now reads well enough to go and read a book to himself without your help. You now have the freedom to give your child a book and walk away knowing that he can read it and you all can come back to...

Picture Book Favorites – Christmas Edition

by Kandis | Dec 14, 2022 | Blog Posts, Get Organized, Not Yet School Age, Playful Homescholing, Think, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary

Books play a central part of our every day. There is not a morning time together that we do not read a picture book and share our thinking before, during and after we read. If there is one thing that I know, it is that these times are essential to our learning and to...
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