As a teacher, turned homeschooler, I love providing ideas and resources to other families that might use my homeschool curriculum or just find inspiration from the ideas we use.
I am an unexpected homeschooler. We landed here, swiftly and without warning, almost four years ago. As a product of public schools and being a school psychologist, homeschooling was never on my radar. And yet here we are. When we first started homeschooling, like many, I attempted to recreate a version of school at home….
I admit, I threw my hands up in the air and walked away after 13 times my daughter declared that West was actually South. What the heck had I gotten myself into? How did I think I could teach my own child, especially abstract concepts? I knew good and well she was just as stubborn…
Sitting in a local ice cream shop, my kindergartener refused to share her ice cream. She refused to give up even a single bite of her precious treat to her sister. “But she’s a baby. She doesn’t eat sugar yet.” Those words. She was just repeating what she had heard me say far too often…
My oldest is a hands-on girl. Many time she needs to be working with a concept in her hands in order for her mind to fully grasp it. It’s how she’s wired, so when we tackled basic graphing skills, of course, the obvious choice was to make it something that worked her fine motor skills…
The big bad boogie man that is the internet is something that many families with young kids shy away from. However, knowing which sites are best for learning and how to keep them safe on them in the process is part of equipping our children for life. In fact, if they can’t get online, they…
Stepping back in time, I remember as a kid entering old courthouses and libraries where the musty, vanilla-like smell fills the room and the continual click of microfiche breaks the silence. My parents both did genealogy. We had an entire walk in closet dedicated to the books, the copies, and the old photos that comprised…
Elections are coming, elections are coming! And it’s an exciting time we live in. We have had our first African American president and now we have the first woman to run for president from a major political party. Plagued with ads on television, on the highway, and everywhere we turn, it’s apparent even to young…
When looking at ways to teach your 2 and 3 year olds, scissors may be the last thing you want to equip them with. Visions from a horror movie flash through your mind involving your own toddler, your furniture, and a pair of scissors. I get it. But let them cut. Let them learn to…
I absolutely abhor spiders with every ounce of hot blood running through my body. However, my young children love all things that creep and crawl, so a spider thematic unit was a perfect impromptu learning week! Even if my own skin was crawling while making the printable pack and teaching them the fun, awesome, and really…
My daughter can easily add and subtract; however she only consistently can identify numbers 1, 3, and 8. She’s ready to learn more in depth concepts and topics; however, her learning style and needs dictate what we can do. So instead of spend a lot of money on a pre-constructed kindergarten curriculum kit, I did my…
It’s noon and my daughter is on her 17th piece of paper and has somehow misplaced her crayon 4 times already today. While appropriate at any time of year, back to school season and the start of a new semester are both great times to implement or re-approach the idea of responsibility. And it’s a…
Every parent’s fear in homeschooling is that they won’t be good enough, they’ll fall behind, or somehow fail. And at the beginning of the school year, planning can be completely overwhelming. But it doesn’t have to be. Last minute running around and making sure you’re prepared will always bring some stress, especially if this is…