Category: How-To
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Building on the Firm Foundation
A firm foundation is laid for our faith in God’s excellent Word. Higher thoughts.
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Good Education and Prayers
As the new year begins, embrace the thrill and challenges while focusing on good education and prayers.
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10 Favorite How-Tos ~ 2024–2025
10 reader-favorite How-Tos from the archives: Skill subjects vs content subjects, teach a child to read, onomatopoeia, & more!
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18 Tips to Stay Creative & Inspired When Homeschooling
In a slump? Looking for inspiration? Here are 18 tips for remaining creative & inspired — Keep the spark lit!
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Making Wise Homeschool Decisions: A Prayerful Approach
In the face of an overwhelming number of decisions, how do we make good choices?
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How to Choose Curriculum Without Becoming Overwhelmed!
Choose curriculum without becoming overwhelmed! 11 tips.
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Expectations When Homeschooling
For those of us who educate our children at home, the expectations multiply. There is pressure to perform, and fear of consequences.
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Guiding Your Child’s Education: 8 Reasons to Educate Yourself
8 reasons why homeschool moms should educate themselves.
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8 Time-Saving Solutions
Time-saving strategies for busy homeschool moms: prioritization, establishing routines, planning meals, and more!
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Tips for Using Our Free Units
Tips for using our 200+ free units covering everything from earthworms, arches, inventors, and DNA to composers, horses, holidays, and bread…and practically everything in between.
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So How Do You Teach Reading?
An effective approach to teaching reading using phonics, patience, and a natural approach to learning to read.
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Forsaking Our Idols
Life is so much easier when we can fit things into nice tidy boxes. Avoiding labels and forsaking our idols.
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Prioritizing
We will always have time to do the things that God has given us to do. The key is prioritizing.
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Searching for the Right Homeschooling Approach
Each method has its strengths and weaknesses, points of confusion, advocates and detractors. So how do you decide between them?
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Writing Ages and Stages
Understanding where your student is in the writing process and meeting him/her there.
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10 Favorite How-Tos ~ 2023–2024
10 reader-favorite How-Tos from the 2023–2024 archives: Skill subjects vs content subjects, Beechick basics, get started homeschooling, and more!
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Keeping Your Ducks in a Row
To have your ducks in a row is an idiom that means you are well organized and prepared to tackle your project.
