The following is a guest post by Sheila Petruccelli of Sure as the World. Summer is planning time at our house. The upcoming year seems expansive, exciting and full of possibility -- the towering piles of books, papers and post-its scattered everywhere are tangible proof of this. For the most …
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Could a slight schedule-switch work wonders for you?
The following is a post by Kari Patterson of Sacred Mundane. One simple schedule-switch worked wonders for us. One of the main reasons we homeschool is to have the freedom and flexibility to "go with" what life brings and what needs and situations present themselves, so we're far from rigid. …
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A one-room schoolhouse philosophy
The following is a guest post by Cara Thompson of Write Season. There are so many amazing home school moms online. So many, that my first year of active educating in our home, my heart was given over to finding out how the majority of those moms set up their homes for school. I zeroed in on …
4 spring cleaning and organizing tips for homeschoolers
Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool, also blogs about motherhood at Steady Mom Something seems to happen to me every spring - as the snow melts and the sun emerges, I have an urge to throw everything in our house away. (I never actually follow through with this internal nudge, don't …
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How I plan our homeschool days
It all feels so official sometimes: I'm homeschooling three children. Surely I need a teacher's lesson planning book, the kind I used to see in the classroom, right? They look so professional, after all. Yet the longer I'm at this gig, the less I seem to plan and the more our days seem to …