From the category archives:

Homeschooling

Giving Your Heart Away

March 9, 2010

Yesterday, in homeschool, we read a touching story from our book Stories from Africa about a little girl named Titi, who was able to sing in the midst of suffering because she gave her heart to Jesus.
Tears came to my eyes as I read this story while I’m also reading the stories written by bloggers [...]

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He Couldn’t Tell a Lie…and Neither Could She

February 22, 2010

Sonlight has been our homeschool curriculum of choice. I like, no…I love the excellent and well-rounded selections that we read within their core curriculum.
Sometimes, though, in the ups and downs of homeschool questionings, I wonder if I’m wasting my time reading these selections.
I wonder if I should discard them to focus more on phonics instruction, [...]

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Punished

February 18, 2010

Each week in homeschool EA and MC have a memory verse to hopefully commit to memory by the end of the week.
I have to say that I was thankful for this week’s verse as it would give me an opportunity to discuss discipline with the girls and how it is necessary and for their good.
This [...]

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Homeschool Science Experiment: Making Gas

January 22, 2010

We conducted our very first homeschool science project this week.
We’ve been reading about the three different states of matter in The Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and Nature. In case you don’t remember from your elementary science class, they are solid, liquid and gas.
In the book, Mama Bear does an experiment to change ice [...]

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A Real Encourager

November 12, 2009

I’ve written before about what an encourager EA is. She is constantly giving out praises and compliments in the sweetest way.
Last week I saw a perfect example of encouragement in an interaction she had with her sister during homeschool.
After both of their phonics lessons, I decided it may be fun to play a game with [...]

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Vote for DailyDwelling

November 11, 2009

I’ve been nominated for a Homeschool Blog Award in the category of “Best Encourager“. The voting began yesterday and will continue until Nov. 21.
The description of this category reads:
“It is time to say thanks to those bloggers out there who lift you up out of the homeschool “blahs” and help you get back on track. [...]