When am I ever going to need this? Why do I have to learn this? Math is so boring. If you’ve ever heard any of the above in your home, I have a suggestion for you. It’s called Make It Real Learning. I reviewed one of the modules: Sets, Probability, and Statistics from Volume I …
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Do you long for the good ole days when children played outside with their friends, went fishing, and had great adventures? I know that a lot has changed in the few, short, ahem, years since I was a child. No, I didn’t grow up in the country, but my friends and I did ride our …
My son William had a lot of trouble learning to read. I read all the advice that said not to worry about it. “It will come.” “Some kids are just late readers.” It was helpful advice when he was 6. It was a little less helpful at 7. After he was 8 and even 9, …
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Six years ago this morning I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Nine months earlier, I found out I was pregnant from the surgeon who had removed my gall bladder the week before. He was very concerned (near panicked) when he called me to tell me the news. The day before, at my post-op …
This summer we went on the most amazing vacation to Arizona. In the spring, as we were planning our trip, we were floundering a bit in our history studies. My husband suggested I try a unit study on Native Americans. I thought that was a great idea so I went straight to work on putting …
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Much research has shown that early childhood is an ideal time to begin learning a foreign language. Because of this, I’ve always tried to expose my children to Spanish at a young age. I chose Spanish mainly because it’s the easiest foreign language to find resources for children. Ideally, I would teach them Spanish by …
I’ve always thought alphabet memes were fun, so when I found out that Marcy at Ben and Me was starting over on hers, I marked my calendar. And I still missed the A week, because… Read the title. Busyness. Whoa. We started back to school, and I’m working part time, and it’s cross country season …
I remember when all my friends started getting into the scrapbooking craze. I was recently married and working full-time. I loved seeing their creations, but I feared that once I started, I would never get a photo into an album again. I also didn’t like having to buy so much to get started, not to …
Do your children like to act out their history lessons? Do you want to make history come alive? Does your history curriculum suggest activities like dressing in historical clothing? I have a fantastic resource to recommend. I was recently given a copy of Costumes with Character from Golden Prairie Press to review. Costumes with Character …
We started school on Monday. We started without fanfare. We started without a special breakfast. We started without taking pictures of the first day of school. And even though I am reasonably certain that my oldest 3 children would not even want any of those things, it still bothers me. It’s one of the disadvantages …
