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homeschool

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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Field Trip to the Bakery

October 15, 2009

A few weeks ago we read about bakers in our Social Studies book, The Usborne Book of Things People Do.
At the end of the week, the kids and I took a field trip to one of our local German bakeries in town.
We didn’t get a tour of the bakery or anything more involved. They’re still [...]

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Teaching Phonics with The Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading

September 17, 2009

Over the summer as I was planning out homeschool year I read two great reviews of The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading. Both were from bloggers that I love and respect greatly. One from The Pioneer Woman, who needs no other introduction and the other was from LoraLynn of Vitafamiliae.
I did a little more [...]