Unit studies can be a really fun part of your homeschool, but as a new homeschooling mom it can be really intimidating to plan one out. What do you study? What should you read? How do you do it without a curriculum laying it out for you? Thankfully, the process really isn’t as scary as […]
Mr. C has been working on multiplication for a while now, and he really enjoys it. He’s pretty good at memorizing facts and doing abstract math, but when I ask him to explain how he got to an answer, he struggles. “I just know” I understand and I empathize. I was that kid. I could […]
Cutting is one of those fine motor skills that preschoolers need to learn, but it can feel intimidating to teach. It intimidated me because none of it comes naturally to kids. They need to learn which fingers go into what holes in the scissors, how to hold the paper, and how to move their cutting […]
If you look at any given homeschool curriculum, you’ll see that the last twenty lessons or so look almost identical to the first twenty lessons of the next year. Why is that? Summer Brain Drain. Really. We teach kids for nine months, and then they spend three months forgetting what they just learned. It’s a […]
My boys are lovely, and they love animals, but they are far from gentle. It can be hard for them to understand that animals have feelings, and they should be as gentle with them as they are with their baby sister. The most difficult part is that we can’t really teach them to be gentle […]
Inclusion is one of those things that people generally agree with in principal. Once it gets down to the actual act of including disabled kids, they are much less open minded. Parents of disabled and autistic children have spent years fighting for even the most basic levels of inclusion in society. One of the biggest […]
