Written by contributor Kari Patterson of Sacred Mundane Intentional summer. This phrase doesn't exactly send a thrill of excitement up our spines, does it? When summer comes often the last thing we want to do is think. We work so hard during the school year, slowly losing …
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“Homeschool” – “school” = HOME
Affiliate links are included in this post. "There is no place like home." ~ L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz Home. What comes to mind when I mention the word? For many of us the stereotype of home (and if we're fortunate, our own experience of it from childhood) brings up certain …
How to ROCK the last few weeks of your homeschool year
The following is a post by Kara Anderson. In our family, we have tried many school year schedules. We’ve tried summers off, summers on, occasional month long breaks and once, a 6-week-on-one-week-off rotation that I never successfully kept track of, meaning that often it was more like 8.5 …
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Our top 25 read-alouds (ages 5-12)
Written by contributor Sarah Small of SmallWorld at Home We started reading to our firstborn the day we brought him home. We didn’t start with Pat the Bunny or Goodnight Moon, although those both played an important part in our story time with all our children. We started with a college textbook, …
Creating a homemade extended family
The following is a guest post written by Brooke Scott of Violicious. We are a family. We are a family of homeschoolers. We are a family of homeschoolers who lives far away from its traditional family. And so, we created a new one. Two years ago during the winter holidays my eldest son …
