Family Life
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Winter Homeschooling
After the Christmas decorations have been packed up and the new year officially welcomed in, it’s time to re-start your family’s homeschool year. Continue reading
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Autumn Homeschooling
With summer officially over most homeschool families have begun their school year. With the coming of cooler weather and crisper fall mornings comes a renewed sense of diligence as we turn our focus to formal lessons. And though we should definitely take advantage of the renewed motivation to work on the school aspect of our… Continue reading
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Enjoying Christmas Together
Whether you choose to maintain a regular homeschool routine, take the entire month of December off, or compromise to something between those, Christmas is an especially cozy season to settle in with your family. In the past, our family has taken the entire month of December off as a winter break, but this year we… Continue reading
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Enjoying Thanksgiving Together
Thanksgiving can be the perfect opportunity to enjoy family life. Involving your children in your food preperations for the day, setting the table for the feast, and savoring the meal with one another are great, but the day is ripe with plenty of other opportunities to spend time making memories with your little ones. Game… Continue reading
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Springtime Homeschooling
Congratulations, homeschoolers! You made it through the holidays, the dreary months of February and March- when every homeschooler on the planet begins to question everything, reevaluate their curriculum choices, and their ability to pull off this whole home education thing- and now springtime is upon us! We are in the home stretch of the school… Continue reading
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Reading Aloud in Your Homeschool
Reading aloud has served as the foundation of our homeschool since we first began. Whether we were reading our history lesson, enjoying a novel, learning the rules for a new game, or listening to an emerging reader get some practice, the sound of the written word spoken out loud has been a constant in our… Continue reading
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The Case for Video Games: Strengthening Family Bonds and Building Skills
I am not a gamer. I mean, I played the original Sims as a teenager. And I’ve played a couple Elder Scroll games. But, other than that, I don’t play video games. They’re just not my thing. I prefer reading. In fact, I was I was such an avid reader as a child that my… Continue reading
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Summer in Your Homeschool
The sun is shining, the beach is busy, the temperature is soaring… it must be summer! Many homeschool families choose to homeschool through the summer, or choose one subject to do “summer school”. We started our journey as year-round homeschoolers. As time went on, however, my kids’ friend circle grew to include more and more… Continue reading
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Watching Movies in Your Homeschool
If you were a public school kid in the 90’s, you probably remember the days when the tv on the cart was wheeled into your classroom. It really didn’t matter what was going to be played- the whole class usually erupted with claps and cheers of joy. You can achieve that same effect by declaring… Continue reading
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Boredom Busters
We have been done with our formal school work long enough at our house for the kids to start saying that they’re bored, or defaulting to spending hours in front of a screen. While I’m definitely not anti-screen time (you can read more about my experience with that here), I also don’t think it’s healthy… Continue reading