Unschooling is beneficial. It is important. I do think it helps foster a love for learning that extends through a whole life time. Learning should be fun although there will always be some things we will have to learn about even if we are not interested. Homeschooling provides my children time to have the best of both worlds. It allows my children to receive a structured education with enough time to pursue interests.
We all want our children to be successful in school. How do we help our young children learn what they need to learn so when school starts they will be all set? I work full-time as a Speech-Language Pathologist with young children and their families. I go into the…
Do you have a child with speech or language difficulties? As a former Speech-Language Pathologist, I have a great interest in helping young children’s speech and language skills. Parents make great teachers. I’ve been homeschooling for 9 years now and this time has further reinforced the idea that parents…
Back when my boys were in 2nd grade and Kindergarten, I did a health study with them. I had originally purchased a curriculum, but didn’t like it so I made up my own study with a book that I owned and added in online resources. This year I am revisiting…
Back when my boys were 6 and 4, we embarked on our study of the world with a unit study on the Arctic. Since that time we have studied North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Soon we will begin studies of Central and South America. Our Arctic…
Our first year homeschooling did not go well. Math was pretty near a disaster. I guess you could say it was the year my son learned to hate math. At the end our first year I discovered that my son learned best by thinking and applying concepts. As a result,…
Learning the books of the Bible doesn’t have to be boring. When my boys were 6 and 4, I discovered a fun song on Youtube that teaches the books of the Bible. The Bigsby Show put together this video that goes through all the books of the Bible in an…
When my daughter was young, I would grab some picture books off the library shelves to bring home to read aloud to her. Let’s just say that this method resulted in many duds. I knew there were tons of great picture books available, so I decided to put in some…
4th Grader Bible: The War is Over, Bible reading(Acts, Galatians, Colossians), memory work, reading missionary biographies (Imprisoned in the Golden City – Adoniram Judson, Lights in Lisuland (Isobel Kuhn), Sundar Singh, Gospel According to TL and Daisy), OT Bible stories from Adventures in Odyssey, and listening to a dramatized reading…
Our ladybugs are here! Last week I ordered 1000 ladybugs to be shipped to our home. Prior to purchasing, we did a little research and are hoping to be able to observe the life cycle of ladybugs. We went to the store the morning after they arrived and found a…
