Afternoon Quiet Time for All Ages

Afternoon Quiet Time for All Ages at Hodgepodge

All this week I’ve been sharing the learning layers of our homeschool day. First, we place a generous helping of prayer, next we layer all those helpful homeschool habits, we stir around the 3 Rs on five levels. After lunch we sprinkle the wonderful spices of enrichment, showing how we fit in all the extra [...]

How To Fit In All The Extras

One More Thing After Lunch

One more thing after lunch. One more thing after lunch. This is the one thing that really changed our homeschool. When the children were all little we could usually get most of our learning completed before lunch. As they grew and the needs of the age range grew as well, I struggled to fit it [...]

The Three Rs for Multiple Ages

Three Rs

Sunday morning, I’m helping put his shoes on for church and he says it. “Mama! N is for no and Y is for yes!” And I realize then that it’s time. It’s time to teach four-year-old to read. Those gentle ways of reading. He’ll be the fifth one we’ll teach. Of course the three Rs [...]

Helpful Homeschool Habits for Multiple Ages

Helpful Homeschool Habits for Multiple Ages

Welcome back to 10 Days of Lasagna Learning: Teaching Multiple Ages. For over a dozen years we’ve turned to our habits as the ‘bones’ of our day. Our habits help us accomplish a basic school day and get food on the table. We leaned on one or two more heavily when all were age 10 [...]

A Recipe for Teaching Multiple Ages

Layers and Levels of Learning. That one-room schoolhouse type of learning. But Lasagna Learning describes it much more accurately.

Welcome to 10 Days of Lasagna Learning! I’m so glad you are here. As homeschool mothers, parents, we can all learn from and help each other. I hope that some part of this series will bless you – whether you are balancing the needs of an age range or just starting your homeschool journey. So [...]

10 Days of Lasagna Learning: Teaching Multiple Ages

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If ever there was a week that was an example of lasagna learning, it was this. Lasagna learning being layers and levels of different ages, all together. The spices of learning all blending and complimenting. Take Columbus. I read this book from our Tapestry studies to the age range (pictured at top). We just read [...]