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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...

Picture Book Favorites – Fall Edition

by Kandis | Sep 28, 2022 | Blog Posts, Get Organized, Not Yet School Age, Upper Elementary, Younger Elementary

If you have been around Smart Simple Homeschool for a more than a minute, you know that I teach all comprehension strategies using picture books – yes, even to middle school and high school students. There is something powerful about picture books that allow us...

Consider the Scale

by Kandis | Aug 10, 2022 | Blog Posts, Do, Get Organized, Learn, New to Homeschooling, Not Yet School Age, Upper Elementary, Values & Beliefs, Younger Elementary

I sit on the unpopular side of the fence in homeschooling in that I do believe that the work our children do should be graded. But, before you quit reading, hear me out for a moment because I don’t believe in traditional letter grades or percentages so we may...

Back to School Season Spending

by Kandis | Jul 27, 2022 | Blog Posts, Get Organized, New to Homeschooling, Not Yet School Age, Upper Elementary, Values & Beliefs, Younger Elementary

I see you with that back to school ad mama. I also see your concern about your bank account and the giant pile of curriculum books that you are avoiding. August starts next week and let’s face it, everyone is talking about going back to school. Everywhere you...
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