Balance in Your Homeschool Life
So you decided that homeschool was best for your family and you got started. Great! You probably had fun figuring out which books to use and made some plans for…
The Layered-Lesson Math Book
https://youtu.be/8019FRsQo8w If you've taught multiple levels of math at the same time, you know how complicated it can feel. Each level has to be taught their lesson individually while you…
An Easter Fun Day
How will you celebrate Easter this year? If you're familiar with my homeschool posts, you know we have a "fun day" about every six weeks as part of our home-micro-school…
A Shepherd Experience
Looking for ideas to teach the Christmas story? This Christmastime, I wanted to give my home & micro-school kids a shepherd experience. I knew we had a fun day coming…
A Mom’s Day
Maybe you are a parent wondering if life for you is like it is for other parents. Maybe you are thinking about having kids and want to know what it…
A Fun Day
What do you do to keep things positive in your homeschool classroom? One of the things we do in our home/microschool is to have what we call "fun days." For…
History Doesn’t Have to be Boring
When you think of history, what comes to mind? My memories of elementary school history are mostly reading the chapter and answering the questions at the end of it. Does…
Fun Days and Field Trips
Every classroom needs discipline, even a homeschool classroom. I learned long ago that positive consequences for good behavior are just as important as negative consequences for bad behavior. And so…
How to Teach your Kids to Read
Have you ever thought about the English language? How the "rules" of phonics only apply to a certain group of words, and then you have to learn another rule for…
Layering Lessons Part 2
Homeschooling multiple grades can be done by layering lessons. I realized I forgot something important on my last Layering Lessons post. I didn't tell you how I needed a homeschool…