When kids are just beginning to read it can be tricky to find them good books to read. You know the only way for them to get better is to practice their skills, but which early readers should you be supplying them with? Hopefully this post will help give you some good ideas. When kids…
I think there is often this idea that most of us believe at one point that homeschooling needs to look just like regular school done at your home. When other mothers say “oh, I could never homeschool”, they are often imagining pages of worksheets, coloring pages, spelling tests and planning for all the subjects. The…
I thought it would be so hard to teach reading. I mean, how does one actually do it? I admit, I even entertained the idea of sending my kids to school for the first few years and then homeschooling after they already knew how to read. Thankfully, even though we did send our daughter to…
If are around homeschoolers long enough you’ll start hearing terms like classical education, Charlotte Mason and unschooling thrown around and if you are new to the idea of homeschooling all these different methods and what they mean can get confusing. I wanted to take what I see to be the 5 most popular homeschooling methods…
This week is my daughter’s last week of kindergarten, after that she will officially be a homeschooler. While I’d love for her to take a little break and just enjoy a few weeks completely off, if I know her at all she will be asking me to teach her something by the time the week…
We are going to be taking it fairly easy this summer (we all need a little time to decompress) but we wouldn’t be true to ourselves if we didn’t have a summer reading list in place. I’ve gathered some chapter books that I’d love to read aloud to my daughter this summer, I’m not sure…
