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Celebrate 100 Days of Learning {Free Download}
“Celebrate 100 Days of Learning” is a free download from MensaForKids.org that actually includes 50 activities related to the 100 theme: The activities may be given to the students for individual self-guided work, or they may be taught in a classroom or a home-school setting…. Assessment strategies and rubrics are included. Examples include: Line upContinue reading “Celebrate 100 Days of Learning {Free Download}”
4 Things You Need to Know to Educate Your Children
Education at its best is an impartation of knowledge, skills, and values. But that is just the beginning. It is also an implantation of the ability to teach oneself, to understand what is known — and what is yet to learn — and where to look for it. It is also by design, and thereforeContinue reading “4 Things You Need to Know to Educate Your Children”
10 Tips for Living on One Income While Homeschooling
We know first-hand that living on one income while homeschooling can be a challenge. But where there is a will there is a way! Here are our 10 tried-and-true tips for making it happen: 1. Stick to your budget. We have operated on a budget since nearly the beginning. It started before we had childrenContinue reading “10 Tips for Living on One Income While Homeschooling”
5 Books to Read over the Holidays
Each year through our weeks off during the Christmas break, I read several inspiring home-educating-related books to stay creative and motivated. Time alone spent educating ourselves makes us better teachers and mentors, and the breaks we incorporate in our schedules provide the time to read deeply — instead of peeking in here and there betweenContinue reading “5 Books to Read over the Holidays”
8 Ideas for Enjoying the Thanksgiving Holiday
If we’re not careful, Thanksgiving can end up being an over-stressed, over-indulgent, over-chaotic holiday!
10 Tips for Homeschooling Gifted Learners
Tips for best serving a gifted learner with resources.
Homeschooling Special Learners
Considering homeschooling your special learner? A home full of love, warmth, security, and support can be the ideal atmosphere in which these children will thrive. Their needs can be met in an environment where there are no labels. There is help in abundance for such families. “The first step in working with your special needsContinue reading “Homeschooling Special Learners”
Finding Balance
Homeschooling requires finding balance. With all of the the focus on being productive, it is not surprising that we find ourselves on the cusp of complete and utter burnout! We have apps, roles and goals, lists, habits, more to do better, and frogs to eat. And our complete focus on pushing through and getting thingsContinue reading “Finding Balance”
20 Tips for Staying Organized
Today we are constantly hit with streaming, flashing, fast-paced content that tends to leave us distracted and anything but organized. Here are 20 tips for staying organized — but this is not your ordinary let’s-get-organized list…. Obviously, discipline is one key to staying organized. When it comes to getting organized, this is the area thatContinue reading “20 Tips for Staying Organized”
Summer School for Mom: Introduction
Summer School for Mom series to help you prepare and be fired up for the next year!
Things to Do: June
Keep them learning this summer with these free summer units, free eBooks, and great summer-themed finds!
9 Things for Mom to do This Summer
9 ideas for things the homeschool mom to do this summer.
18 Tips for Remaining Creative & Inspired!
Looking for inspiration? Here are 18 tips for remaining creative & inspired — and keeping the spark lit:
Why Your Children Need You to Remain Creative
I remember once reading about one homeschool mom’s journey — about the things she had given up to spend time on her children. She hoped to get back to those things at some other point in her life. I don’t know how the end of the story turned out — whether those interests that sheContinue reading “Why Your Children Need You to Remain Creative”
10 Ways to Stay Well-Rounded
Homeschooling can consume us — if we let it. It can become not only what we do, but who we are, the sum total of our existence. Here are 10 ways to stay well-rounded and avoid becoming one-dimensional! 1. Spend time with God. As a Christian, this is where my day starts. My faithContinue reading “10 Ways to Stay Well-Rounded”
6 Tips for Avoiding Burnout
From expectations to practical solutions, here are 6 tips for avoiding burnout!
4 Ways to Keep Your Focus
Looking for ways to keep your focus? The Internet has made sharing information, ideas, models, methods, curriculum plans, material reviews, scheduling information — and so much more — very accessible to many, if not most, homeschoolers. With this barrage of information, it is easy to lose our focus. It is easy to get caught upContinue reading “4 Ways to Keep Your Focus”
12 Ideas for Inspiring Creativity
If you have educated your children at home for several years, you know how easy it is to fall into a rut — doing the same things day in and day out. Big-time creativity buster. Ready to liven things up a bit? Here are 12 ideas for inspiring creativity: 1. Schedule time for creativity toContinue reading “12 Ideas for Inspiring Creativity”
Rejuvenate This Summer
Whether you are taking a couple of months off or a week or two break, summer is a great time to get rejuvenated! Here are a few tips to help you rejuvenate this summer: Learning Sizzling Summers {8 Ideas for Making the Most of Summer} Ways to get the most out of a summer vacation.Continue reading “Rejuvenate This Summer”
Perseverance … Again.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas A. Edison True for our children as much as it is true for us!
Being Deliberate
Time passes so quickly. I don’t think this is something we can really appreciate until we are slightly out of the forest — you know, the one with the trees that keep you from seeing the big picture. Then we really start to notice how long things take, how little missteps add up, how aContinue reading “Being Deliberate”
20 Easy Ways to Save Money Around the Home
Most homeschool families are one-income families. In many cases the family runs a small business or Dad is self-employed. Many homeschool families watch their pennies. Here are our tried and tested top 20 easy ways to save money around the home: Make a budget. Knowing how much you have to spend (or not) tends toContinue reading “20 Easy Ways to Save Money Around the Home”
6 Tips for Creating a Workable Schedule
No matter what type of planner, calendar, to-do list, or app you use, it starts by creating a workable schedule. After all, a schedule is only as good as the thought behind it. So here are 6 tips to help you create a schedule that will work for you: Know what type of scheduler youContinue reading “6 Tips for Creating a Workable Schedule”
