Homeschooling Moms of great creativity never cease to amaze me. I can appreciate them so much because I *lack* creativity (in the area of crafts and incorporating that into homeschooling) great. 🙂 I thought I’d share this creative idea as it relates to teaching children address facts. It’s so neat! Hope many of you consider …
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Homeschool students who are planning to attend college should plan to finish up their schooling with 24 credits. Of those 24 credits, for those students college bound, they should have at least SEVEN units of electives. Electives are pretty easy to earn or create BUT just in case you’d like some suggestions or ideas here’s …
Homeschoolers are always looking for ways to satisfy the computer science credit other than keyboarding. Here are just a few option for computer programming both FREE and for purchase. https://docs.google.com/document/d/100bNZqfgq32hjfwPemqxu2Q02XJCTR-EGyQtz9uweMU/edit Simply keep a log of students work time on a particular project. 150-180 hours of logged work equates to the satisfied credit earned for computer …
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Besides working hard at marriage, birthing children into the world, raising those children to live Christ-like, with morals and standards…………. The next challenging *self-inflicting* thing there is in this life as it relates to our children is *HOME SCHOOLING* them. Ha! If anyone has ever said that homeschooling is easy………well the Lord bless them. Because …
If you have been homeschooling for any period of time you may have come to realize that FORMS make homeschooling and keeping records that much easier! In our state, homeschooling under Option 3 comes with quite a few regulations we must follow. Such as attendance. Keeping attendance of at a minimum of 180 days is …
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“Teaching Math Through Art” takes students from around 3rd to the 8th grade and goes through all the things they need to know in math and puts lessons in a hands on art context. Rotations, reflections, fractions (when drawing the face, measuring tryptches, grids, and more), three dimensional shapes, and much more are included. Go …
Alright…..I read this article and it was a mind opener. Hhhhmmm!! Interesting. The brain grows and intelligence gained as we exercise our brain. Struggle with something until we get it. So, in essence the writer, Salman Kahn of Kahn Academy, suggests that you should praise children for the conquering or making a clear accomplishment over …
The Learning Myth: Why I’ll Never Tell My Son He’s Smart by Salman Kahn Read More »
Book Adventure is a fun, free way to motivate your child to read! Kids in grades K-8 can search for books, read them offline, come back to quiz on what they’ve read, and earn prizes for their reading success. Click the blue link down below to go to the website resource 🙂 Book Adventure-Free …
Wiggles. Fidgeting. Loosing Focus. Uninterested. Short Attention Span. <Sigh> These are all great reasons to incorporate Brain Breaks in and throughout the learning day for our homeschooling students. It’s just a BREAK from the rigor of BRIAN work. A 10 minute break. Or more. Focusing on something else can make a huge difference in children’s learning, interest and …
My question is…… Although preschoolers – our little ones may be the description of what the sign says above but at what point are they trained to learn to sit still, be quiet, be patient while others are being home schooled? I know personally I take the age of 2 yrs. old and 3 yrs. …
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