Handwriting Without Tears – Manipulatives
Learn more about the range of tools developed to aid your handwriting...
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Handwriting Without Tears
Do you have a child that’s “dramatic” about practicing their handwriting? Maybe...
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Speling Thru the Years
Spelling does not come naturally for all children. In our homeschool, I had one child who studied...
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Middle Grades… the Big Transition
How does a parent go from hands-on, exploratory, interest-driven learning in the early grades to...
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Start Homeschooling Midyear and Flourish
We recently reread a 2018 article we wrote encouraging those starting midyear. So much has...
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Growing Language Arts Skills… like Grapes!
Will you go with me to a vineyard and pick grapes? We’ll pick some fruit and maybe even make some...
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Back To Basics
As a homeschooling family, we strive to give our children a good, well-rounded education. We want...
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Teaching Through Board Games- Language Arts Edition
In this series of posts, I am giving lists of board games for each subject that my family has...
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Martin Luther – October Unit Study
In our October unit study, we will meet a man whose writings brought far-reaching economic, social and religious change and gave confidence to other world changers to share their ideas – Martin Luther.
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Language Arts – A Delightful Medley
Most of our language arts curriculum choices fall into three different “camps” – traditional, Charlotte Mason, and classical – and, of course, there are variations and blendings of these.
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Language Arts – a Lovely Tapestry
It’s not surprising we feel overwhelmed by language arts curriculum. We talk about the core subjects and we tend to say “language arts” and to some extent we all know what is meant by that. But take a quick look at our website or our catalog and all of a sudden the waters seem much muddier.
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From Boring to Bam – Free Winter Homeschool Unit Study for Middle School
Unit studies have a way of not only bringing the family together, but they are a great boredom buster. Whether you are looking for a complete change to your homeschool approach or want to tip toe into unit studies, try this quick and easy free winter homeschool unit study for middle school.
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