Curriculum

Not Back-to-School Blog Hop {Curriculum Week}

If homeschooling didn’t take so much time, I could start a curriculum consulting business. Researching the gazillion resources available for teaching my children comes close to being as much fun as actually teaching them. I’ve tried some great resources over my now-eleven years of homeschooling, growing to understand what is a fit for me and [...]

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Ten Things I Am Changing This Homeschool Year

1. We are going to master the basics, by golly, if its all we do this year. All the kids will be up to speed on math facts and language arts basics. No more getting so sidetracked with history and other stuff that seems more important. 2. We’re flip-flopping our day. We used to do [...]

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Top 10 Things Not to Do Your 1st Week Back to Homeschool

1. Don’t set high expectations. Have a mindset that you’re just going to go through the motions of school and get everyone back into the routine. Anything learned will be a bonus. Lower the bar this week and attitudes will soar next week. 2. Don’t start with every subject. We started our first week with [...]

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Day One: Watch it Wiggle

I’m making this short. You can see from my last post all the plans for our new homeschool year. Well, all of last week was spent preparing to start TODAY with all those plans. As much as I love to plan, and as nice as that plan looks on paper (or digitized, as it may [...]

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Our Homeschool Plan this year

Our focus this year is to strengthen foundations on the core subjects—reading, math and writing. I know we’ll have a great time with our history and science, but I’m not letting that lead my schedule as much as making sure our foundation is really solid. Here is our big plan for the 2010-2011 homeschool year. [...]

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Simply Basic Homeschooling

If you have more than one child, you’ve probably noticed this: all the snazzy new things that were invented between babies. I have six children who were born about every two years. With each subsequent baby, there were several new gadgets and gizmos that I really wanted to have. Even though I really had all [...]

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Spring for Homeschool Moms

The traditions of springtime abound–spring cleaning, spring fever, spring break. We do them all to some degree at my house, usually more fever and break than cleaning, but after nine years of homeschooling, the biggest spring event for me is homeschool planning. {Read the rest of this article over atHeart of the Matter Online.} Home [...]

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A Long Day

Today was our first totally full day of homeschooling. In addition to the kids independent work, we started with Illuminations today which included Bible, history, literature, geography, grammar and spelling. We’ll do science on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I’ve been more excited to start this program than any I’ve done in all my 8 homeschooling years. [...]

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The Faithful, Curriculum-Choosing God

I made a BIG mistake last year in not praying about the upcoming homeschool year. I just assumed God would have me continue in the direction we’d been on. So I went to our homeschool convention, placed all my orders and came home to find that the Lord was leading me differently. I feel sure [...]

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