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Preschool
Preschool Activity: Cutting Shapes and Lines
Cutting with scissors is a learned activity. By three years old your child should have no problem holding a pair of child-sized scissors. It takes them awhile to master this new skill, however, so be patient with them while they begin to show an interest in learning how to do it.Read Article
The Best Way To Improve Fine Motor Skills
The Best Way to Improve Fine Motor Skills (And It’s Fun, Too)!If your child needs help with handwriting, STOP having him practice writing letters sheet after sheet. Let’s go back to the underlying cause, which is more than likely weakened muscles in your child’s hand and arm. Counteract this weakness with strengthening of your child’s hand and arm muscles.Read Article |
Elementary
How to Plan a Great Field Trip
“Hey, Mom! Let’s go on a field trip!” Those words can either inspire us or put us into a state of complete panic. Over the years, as I’ve spoken with many homeschooling moms, it appears they either gravitate toward the field trip concept and love to plan, organize and promote it OR they dread it. If you happen to fall into the first category, then this article will inspire you and give you some new ideas. However, if you dread field trips yet would still like to incorporate them into your homeschool plan, then this article is for you.Read Article
Is Charlotte Mason For You?
If you are looking for a way to homeschool a number of children of various age ranges, enjoy reading books with them, want to enhance their writing skills, delve into stories of historical figures and events, and minimize the use of textbooks, using Charlotte Mason’s methods may be just the right path for you to follow.Read Article |
Middle School
Zap History Boredom!
Are you looking for ways to make history come alive for your children? Here are some easy ways to turn history lessons from dull to dynamic.Read Article
When Your Homeschooler Does Not Like School
There is something you can do about it and that’s what makes homeschooling successful. When your child tells you that he doesn’t like school, you know the program doesn’t fit. Just like when a shoe pinches, it’s time to get a new one.
Your child will start showing signs when he does not like school. Red flags may appear in his attitude, action, and work. He might even come out and say he doesn’t like it with words that none of us like to hear. He might just be having a bad day. But when the problem continues day after day, it’s time to do something about it.Read Article |
High School
How to Homeschool in High School
How do you homeschool in high school? The greatest encouragement someone gave me when I was contemplating what high school home schooling looked like, was – “It’s no different; you just keep going.”
When our children were entering the “high school” years, I had an idea that homeschooling was going to change completely. However, our routine stayed the same, and most subjects stayed the same. The difference was our learning methods and our focus.Read Article
Role Models For Your Teen
By the time your children reach their teens, there is only a limited amount of time left to influence them and get them started in life in the right direction.
The teen years are a critical time for role models in your children’s lives. Often you will find teens have a hard time talking to their parents. This isn’t always the case, but even in the closest families, teens often feel more comfortable talking to another trusted adult about some of the things going on in their lives.Read Article
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Special Needs
Strategies to Homeschool Children with ADD/ADHD
Learning doesn’t have to be a chore for the ADHD student. It seems to me to be such a waste to bore these wonderful minds when it just takes a little bit of creativity on our part to keep them going. In my thirteen years of being a parent to an ADHD child, I have learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t.Read Article
Davis Dyslexia and Phonics Instruction
Ron Davis, author of The Gift of Dyslexia, has brought to light how the learning disability of dyslexia is caused by the successful use of visual thinking skills at an early age. This “gift” works well for recognizing real life objects, but not printed symbols such as alphabet letters and words. Those with dyslexia are disoriented and confused and although they often find alternate ways to appear that they are learning, they are very frustrated and their self esteem suffers.Read Article |
General Homeschooling
Bible Based Homeschooling
The general public is beginning to see homeschooling as more of a mainstream choice and not just an “on the fringes” movement thanks to national recognition gained by homeschoolers who have excelled academically, many of them from secular backgrounds. Much progress that has been made in the area of “acceptance” of homeschooling as a viable education alternative.Read Article
Avoid Mistakes When Buying Curriculum Online
We’ve all had to click “buy” without being certain of what we were buying- Would the program do what it claims? Would the company offer a refund? Would the layout be too busy? It’s difficult to purchase materials for your child’s education when you can’t handle the actual book in person. Avoid these four pitfalls: “Company Error,” “Parent Error,” “Recommendation Error,” and the last is called “Paying for Free Error.”Read Article |
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