The use of technology in home education and beyond is a relatively new idea. As the world around us becomes more technological, we as homes educators have a responsibility to make sure we teach technology in our children’s home education, to help them compete in the technological age. Teaching technology in home education does not need to […]
Hard Days in Homeschool~Facing the reality of special needs and learning disabilities
February 15, 2012 by 2 Comments
This is hard to write, but there are days that homeschooling is so hard, you want to crawl in a hole. Why? Some days no matter how you explain a concept, you feel as you are failing, as a teacher in teaching your child something new. If you happen to ask someone else who isn’t […]
Educating the Strong Willed, I don’t need to know this Child…Creative Unit Studies
October 28, 2011 by Leave a Comment
First, be ready to get creative. And by creative, don’t let them know they are learning something unless you have too…Grammar is going to be one of those. Now, I am not saying that all educational activities should be fun. In fact, children must learn to not be entertained. However, history, science, geography and Bible […]
Creating a Creative Writing Center
August 24, 2011 by 1 Comment
The pictures in this post will be familiar, but I wanted to show how the supply organization has crossed over to our Writing Center. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my plans to put together a writing center. As I was thinking through how I would put together a writing center, I kept in […]
New Series Starting Up Next Week for those with Struggling Learners. Helping Your Learning Abled Child.
May 26, 2011 by 1 Comment
I am excited to let my readers know about an opportunity that my family has been blessed with. I contacted Learning Link Technologies after another blogger contacted me explaining the company was looking for review bloggers with struggling learners. Since I have three with different issues, I contacted them, and we are now on our […]
Learn the Spelling Rules the Fun Way~Wordy Qwerty Review
May 23, 2011 by 17 Comments
I never thought I would hear my children exclaim that learning spelling rules was fun…Seriously Fun? However, over the last several weeks, we have had the opportunity to review Wordy Qwerty ($35) by Talking Fingers the makers of Read Write and Type, review here. Wordy Qwerty contains twenty consecutive lessons that will teach your children […]
Homeschool Sanity in the Special Needs Homeschool Family
March 1, 2011 by 2 Comments
When you are a homeschool family with a special needs child, there comes a time that you find what works. The sooner the better. There are many families with more then one special needs child. Our family is blessed—yes, I do mean blessed, to be one of those families. We have one child with dysgraphia, […]
Literacy for Lifelong Learning…
November 9, 2010 by 1 Comment
In our family we try to make learning something that becomes part of our lives. One of our mottos is “We can always learn something new”. When I began homeschooling, I was doing just that, School at home, and it did not go well. As I have become more aware of my children’s interests, and […]
Writing Instruction for the Dysgraphic Student. How?
September 21, 2010 by 2 Comments
Do you have a child that is struggling with writing, not just hand writing, but putting his or her thoughts onto paper? I do, and I have worked for going on three years to work with this student to get to a point where he can write and it make sense. We have a ways […]
Peterson Directed Handwriting Review~Cursive
August 30, 2010 by Leave a Comment
As part of my job on The Old Schoolhouse Review Crew, I was asked to review Peterson Directed Handwriting. This is a handwriting program unlike any other we have tried in our home. There are both gross and small motor activities to help improve the motor skill needed for good handwriting. I tried this with […]
Homeschool Drawing Program~Simply Draw with Bob Parsons Review
August 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Honestly in our homeschool, we have never truly used an art program. When I was contacted to review Simply Draw with Bob Parsons, I thought, hey, this could be a lot of fun, and a nice change from our daily grind. That was an understatement. Philip , my ten year old, a fifth grade dysgraphic […]
Not Back to School Blog Hop~Curriculum Week
August 2, 2010 by 2 Comments
As many of you know, I have a bit of an addiction to homeschool curriculum. Don’t all homeschool moms? I mean, there are so many choices for us to look over. My goal is to hand pick curriculum that will meet my childrens’ learning needs, styles, and desires, without breaking our budget or causing my […]
Weekly Wrap Up—Testing Curriculum Samples, End of Year Evaluations, Extreme Nature Walk
May 28, 2010 by 6 Comments
We had a big week, considering I didn’t ever get to lesson plans over this past weekend. I landed in the garden and only stopped long enough to eat and sleep. 😉 So, Sunday around 8 pm, I decided it would be a week of curriculum samples to try it, complete our year end evaluations […]
Choosing Quality Reading Material for Your Family Part 1 Read Alouds
May 27, 2010 by 3 Comments
Reading is a skill that is not only needed for education, but for life. If you can read, you can pretty much learn anything you need to. Learning to read can be a challenging process for many. However, children who are read aloud to from infanthood, normally have an easier time learning to read. In […]
Our Honey Bee Lapbook
May 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Our first spring lapbook was about Honey Bees. My oldest, a ten year old, went into more depth then our younger children, but we all worked on this lapbook together. I used this Honey Bee Mini Books set as our lapbook guide. Using this guide allowed me to be able to spend more fun time […]
Top Ten Things I Loved from the Schoolhouse Expo.
May 20, 2010 by 3 Comments
During the days of May 12 through May 14, I “attended” the Schoolhouse Expo put on by The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. This was a Webinar for homeschooling parents. It was meant to teach, encourage, support and help homeschooling parents. I have to say it was a HUGE success. There were lots of speakers from those […]
From Workboxes to Study Binders—Streamlining the Large Family Homeschool
May 12, 2010 by 9 Comments
As a mom of six children, streamlining our home has become a habit. I constantly look around and try to find ways to make everything flow smoother. Our house is laid out in a way that is choppy, as in lots of walls, cutting up the “flow” of the floorspace. I like wide open spaces, […]
Nature Study without Overwhelming Yourself or Children—Part 1 of my Weekly Spring and Summer series
April 6, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Our family loves nature. It is super nice that we live in the country, where we can go for nature walks at will. With a dysgraphic child, traditional nature study has had to be modified. Luckily this child LOVES to read. So, he finds a piece of nature and we take a picture of it, […]
Helping the Dysgraphic Child Write-Why Homeschooling is the Write Choice.
February 18, 2010 by Leave a Comment
One of the biggest struggles for the dysgraphic student is handwriting. From writing letters,to writing words, to writing a sentence to, writing a paragraph, to writing a whole story, the dysgraphic student struggles with the actual process of writing. In order to help them work through this struggle, you have to help them learn and […]
Choosing a Math Curriculum for the Homeschool Family with Multiple Needs Part 4
February 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment
For our family choosing a math curriculum has been one of our easier choices. At my second homeschool convention, I picked up, by luck of the draw, Singapore math. We have pretty much stuck with Singapore Math since that time. For just a few weeks we tried something else, but went right back to Singapore […]
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