When I find good resources I always want to share. This list of devotionals would be great to start with this new year or any time of year. Here’s our virtual stack: Read more at Habits for a Happy Home today…
Homeschool Highlights: Weekly Wrap & CPF
1. Baby niece | 2. F is for Fritos (an f snack while practicing f in handwriting) | 3. Me on the Map | 4. Hurricane Irene current events | 5. Sand Art | 6. dropped butter | 7. Cicada – unexpected nature study | 8. AiG Science lesson – muscles | 9. Waiting for big sis to get bottom braces | 10. cookie dough balls –
Answers for Preschoolers
Stop, drop and roll; numbers, matching, science, music, math, cutting and pasting, coloring, calendar work, weather seasons, holidays, Bible verse memory work and Biblical world view. “Complete multi-subject curriculum for preschoolers” ~ Answers in Genesis And, look! Right at the top of each page – plenty of practice in name writing. Join me at The Curriculum Choice today for the full review of this fun
What About the Little Ones? Planning for a New Preschool Year
Keeping the habit of sharing a helpful habit on Fridays… I’m coming off of a weekend attending our state homeschool convention. I spent a good deal of time planning, researching and seeking out the tools I’ll need to teach my older children. But here comes the question I get most often. What about the little ones? It’s a valid question since I’ve had five preschoolers
What Preschoolers Like
from the 2009 archives, written by eldest girl when she was 11-years-old. I’ll tell you what preschoolers like to do: Something shocking. You’re lucky if you’re preschooler doesn’t do these things 3-yr-old did… called 911, came inside a complete mess after a day outside (see On a sunny monday) and more. So here are some really good preschooler tips I used on 3-yr-old: Find a
Helpful Habit – Before 8:45
Last week of the ER visit, I spoke of good intentions and three basic helpful homeschooling habits. This week we gently folded in and fell back into our morning routine. Habits help. Before 8:45 This checklist from HSLDA’s Vicki Bentley and her Everyday Homemaking helps us focus. And if your children are like mine, they need a bit of reminding to brush their teeth and
Hodgepodge Curricula 2010-2011
2010-2011: 7th, 6th and 3rd grades plus two preschoolers Tapestry of Grace Year 4 “From Teddy Roosevelt to Sept 11th” everyone participates in this unit study approach which includes History, Writing, Vocabulary, Geography, Bible, Worldview, Arts and Activities, Literature and Music. We use workboxes with Tapestry. Read about how I am the Tapestry cheerleader here 🙂 All Tapestry posts here Bible – Plants Grown Up
Simple Schooling Strategies
Hodgepodge Simple Schooling Strategies Practical Prayer – how to keep a prayer life in the day to day of balancing the age range. Helpful Homeschool Habits – all the most useful ones compiled in one post. The Housekeeping Habits that Bless Our Home – a list of favorites. Jurisdictions – carving the big job of picking up the mess into smaller pieces. Everybody has their