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...
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...
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...
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...
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