Category: How-To
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Bloom’s & Critical Thinking: Applying
The Applying level (Bloom’s Taxonomy) reflects the ability to apply what has been learned, or to use the information learned in a new way.
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Finding 10,000 Hours
Children need ample time for deliberate practice to develop talents — a learning lifestyle that emphasizes essential skills and individual interests.
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Sowing and Reaping
Sowing faith in children requires time, consistency, and diligence, but ultimately leads to reaping godly individuals.
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Bloom’s & Critical Thinking: Understanding
The Understanding level (Bloom’s Taxonomy) encompasses the ability to take in information, understand it, and be able to restate the information in our own words.
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Bloom’s & Critical Thinking: Remembering
The Remembering or Knowledge level (Bloom’s Taxonomy) involves bringing to mind the information to be recalled.
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5 Tips for Choosing Music
Expose children to high-quality music to shape their taste and values. Provide variety, set a standard, and lead by example in enjoying music.
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Incorporating Bloom’s Taxonomy & Critical Thinking
By using the chart, we can make sure our children are incorporating critical thinking skills — particularly useful when we pull together our own studies.
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Process vs. Product
The process IS the education. And that takes time — small, consistent steps each day that eventually lead to the whole.
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Educational Bucket List — 6 Things To Do Each Day
Those things we really want to cover when we educate our children at home.
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Extending Grace
God did not command that you should homeschool like any other mom. Tips for extending grace to yourself.
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The Purist
Perhaps the purist should also be accepting of the eclectic, the non-purist who marches to a different drummer.
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10 Things to Do With Your Child’s Artwork
What do you do with all of those … things? 10 things we have actually done over the years to preserve our child’s artwork creations.
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Making Scripture Study a Priority
Keeping the first thing the first thing will smooth out even the most uneven days.
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5 Real-Life Writing Elements
5 real-life writing elements for a more natural approach to writing … that works!
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10 Ways to Learn During “Car Time”
From audio books to singing, learning activities to make the most of time spent in the car.
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Favorite Sugar Cookies
Every mom has her go-to recipe for sugar cookies. After all, sugar cookies are an essential element of a successful homeschool family!
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7 Ways to Mark a Book
Mortimer Adler, author of How to Read a Book, makes the case for marking in a book and shares the seven devices “for marking a book intelligently and fruitfully.”
