How one revolutionary art movement can unleash creativity and teach art history from preschool through high school Imagine a moment where an 8-year-old grabs a bright purple marker to confidently color a tree trunk. “Trees aren’t purple!” Might be what’s screaming in your head. They are if we want them to be wild; they are…
How one art technique can engage every child in your homeschool, from preschoolers to high schoolers Recently, I watched my 10-year-old daughter place a bright yellow perler bead next to a purple one, then gasp as she noticed how much more vibrant the yellow appeared. “Mom, it’s perfect!” she exclaimed, unknowingly discovering the same color…
Picture this: It’s 9pm and I’m loading my kids into the van for a surprise trip to see The Wild Robot movie on opening night. Why? Because they’d devoured the book three times and I wanted to create a unforgettable learning moment they’d never forget. Despite nearing midnight that night, all of my children were…
I remember the first time I went snorkeling. I knew about coral reefs, but to actually engage with the fish living under the thin line of water was like bobbing between two worlds. A family friend took me to go spear fishing and even grabbed urchin from the bottom of the ocean floor. These moments…
For several years, our family has homeschooled with unit studies. It’s an easy way for us to cover the same basic material as a family and learn together no matter the age, taking the majority of the prep work our of teaching! It also has meant that for us we can compile multiple smaller topics…
In our ever exciting journey through tot school and preschool, we’re at a point where I am actually trying to write out preschool curriculum learning objectives. While my personal typical strategies to teach 2, 3, and 4 year olds is in no way a rigid classroom-type structure, I felt that establishing learning objectives for the…
