Never say never. All last week, I felt comfortable saying that I was going to be embarking on homeschooling my youngest three children. Granted, one of them is in 8th grade and taking Geometry, the other in sixth and taking pre-Algebra and the last in first grade, but I thought that I could handle it….
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Homeschooling from scratch
I’m going to be homeschooling my three youngest this coming year. Which, quite frankly, is a shock to me. When I hung up my homeschooling yoke four years ago I never thought I would take it up again. But, here we are. 2020, the year of never say never. I’m going to be homeschooling 1st…
Reading isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
I’m teaching my daughter to read using the Reading Lesson. I like this book. It’s simple looking with lots of white space. It takes the kids slowly through the process of introducing some of the phonetical sounds. (Nothing like teaching someone to read to notice how much of the English language is not phonetical at…
Our Chapter Book Read-Alouds so Far…
Since we have started formally homeschooling Kindergarten, we’ve added chapter book read-alouds to our day. With my older three children I feel like I rushed into chapter books. I distinctly remember reading the Little House series to my oldest when my second child was born, and he wasn’t even three yet! But, with our fourth,…
Homeschool Morning Meeting – What we’re doing
I’m homeschooling my Kindergartener. I wanted to add something called a Morning Meeting to our day. If you google “Homeschool Morning Meeting” you will find lots of good ideas for how to structure your morning. But, I wanted something a little less intensive. Something that she could take ownership over. I couldn’t find exactly what…