A Quiet Simple Life with Sallie Borrink
Cozy and Simple Living, Homeschooling, Faith, Homemaking, & Books
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Have fun learning skills with these free garden printables. The four reading and writing activities will help your children practice important skills while thinking about gardens and ideas related to gardens. There are four print-and-go garden-themed activities in this pack that will be a great addition to your garden unit. Free Garden Printables Pack The …
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Learning to understand the difference between a fact and an opinion is an important skill for children. An easy way to practice this skill is by using topics that are high interest and highly relevant for the learner. This free Thanksgiving themed fact or opinion activity is a fun way to practice telling the difference …
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I’ve heard many homeschoolers mention over the years how much their kids love Reading Eggs, but for some reason we never used it. When Caroline and I had the opportunity to try it out, we were interested since we always like looking for fun ways to learn on the computer! (Truth be told, I’m not …
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I had the opportunity to receive five picture books around a particular theme of my choosing that would work well for a unit study. I selected picture books about character for girls. They include The Princess and the Presents, Just Like Coco, Fiona’s Little Lie, Because Amelia Smiled, and Sidney, Stella and the Moon. I …
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In order to assemble this collection of free and paid printables, I asked some of my online friends to share their best and favorite early elementary printables with me. I also spent several hours looking online to find great resources. Below you will find a selection of both free and paid worksheets, printables, activities, mini-books, …
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I almost feel like it is dishonest to say how I teach language arts because I sometimes feel like I haven’t. I have facilitated a lot of learning. If there is any area where I feel like I’ve really embraced relaxed homeschooling and can see how well it can work, it is relaxed homeschooling language …
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Perhaps the best website I’ve used with Caroline is ABC Mouse. It is by subscription, but worth every penny in my opinion. There are two things that set ABC Mouse apart from other learning websites. The first is the high quality of the site in general. The graphics and production level are far superior to …
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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 familiar with the concept of a spirited child or wonder if you have one, you might want to check out my spirited child …
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I can officially call LeapFrog Letter Factory a big hit with Caroline. Now that I know she likes it, I’ll look into the other related ones as well. Thanks very much for the recommendations! I’ll be checking out some of the others soon! I also purchased the Fridge Words Magnetic Word Builder today. We already …
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We never really sat down and taught Caroline her ABC’s. It just happened naturally over time because we provided lots of interesting materials for her to use such as the Baby Einstein Alphabooks. So while we did do lots of things to provide learning materials and engaged with her about print and books, she was …
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Caroline enjoys Goodnight Moon and I was excited to find some fun Goodnight Moon activities we can use with the large board book we already have. I found both a Goodnight Moon lapbook and a Goodnight Moon puzzle that she is enjoying! Goodnight Moon Lapbook Today we (David and I) made a Goodnight Moon lapbook …
