Home Schooling or Home Education?
I don’t know why it took me so long to have this aha moment, but it did. It wasn’t until last week that I fully grasped that I am not a homeschooler. I am a home educator. Then I found a …
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I don’t know why it took me so long to have this aha moment, but it did. It wasn’t until last week that I fully grasped that I am not a homeschooler. I am a home educator. Then I found a …
I wanted to bring together two topics near and dear to my heart in this one post: spirited children and homeschooling. More specifically, teaching a spirited child to read. (If you aren’t …
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Pablo Picasso
A few weeks ago I ended up on the website A girl and a glue gun and her DIY Barbie House post (now both closed). I knew Caroline would be enthralled, but I had no idea how much it would impact her. …
As we head into the home stretch, I’ve been reflecting on our first year of homeschooling experience. To say it has been interesting would be an understatement. I’ve reminded myself of …
Remember the post How a homeschooled dreamer does preschool math? A year later, here is a rough breakdown of how my kindergarten homeschool schedule with Caroline might go on any given day. Calendar …
Like most homeschooling moms, I’m currently in the midst of planning. For our family, I am in the middle of planning our relaxed homeschooling kindergarten year. After doing a lot of research …
One of the things I enjoy about Caroline is the fact that she is so imaginative and creative. She has a rich imagination that far exceeds anything I ever had as a child. In the Strong-willed Child Or …
Like many little ones, Caroline is fascinated by stickers. I found My Big Book Of Stickers and it was a fabulous teaching tool! We garnered hours and hours of learning time from this one book. I …
Caroline’s big Christmas present this year was a Melissa and Doug easel. (Read more about that here.) It has a chalkboard on one side and a whiteboard on the other. She uses it every day and …