Written by Sarah Mackenzie of Amongst Lovely Things We’re tiptoeing to the end of summer, and if you’re anything like me, you’re looking over your plans for the school year, making sure you’ve dotted your i’s, crossed your t’s, that you’ve stocked up on 10 cent notebooks and colorful pens. And …
Being outnumbered by babies and toddlers: The hardest part of Sarah’s homeschool year
Written by Sarah Mackenzie of Amongst Lovely Things No one likes to be outnumbered. If you’re in a soccer match and the other team has more players on the field than you, it feels like defeat before you begin. I don’t just have more children than I do hands- I have more children than I do …
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Summer = time gained
Written by Sarah Mackenzie of Amongst Lovely Things. I have a bad habit of thinking that summer is time lost. You know what I’m talking about, right? It seems that every time we take a couple of months off of school completely, when we finally get back to hitting the books in September, each …
How to read aloud every day
How to Read Aloud Every Day ~ Written by Sarah Mackenzie of Amongst Lovely Things. I'm convinced that the minutes and hours I spend reading to my children are the best invested moments of my entire life. With six kids underfoot to love on and teach, I fight a constant feeling that I’m not …
Paradigm shift: Curriculum is not something you buy
Paradigm shift: Curriculum is not something you buy ~ Written by Sarah Mackenzie of Amongst Lovely Things. What if we've got it all wrong? What if it doesn't matter which books we use, which history projects we take on, how many lessons of math we accomplish in a year? Homeschoolers spent an …
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