A Year in the Life of a Child: Free Living Math Picture Book with Activities
This month, I am teaching my children about the calendar. I could simply, show them a calendar and memorize the days of the week or months of the year. Or even sorting the words every day until they...
View ArticleThe Many Benefits of Family Math
My 3 school aged children and I are all sitting around the table. Each of them has their separate level math lesson out. I am trying to explain to Faith (5) how to do her problems when Grace (9)...
View Article3 Easy Ideas to Practice Math Skills in a Hands-on Way Using a Worksheet
There’s no way around it, kids need to practice math skills. Some more than others. If the sight of yet another worksheet is sending your child into tears, I am here to help. All you need is a...
View Article3 Types of Questions to Ask After a Math Lesson for Homeschoolers
Those who love math–(did you know that this is so for some kids?)–do not love the answers. What they love is the path to find the answer. When a child is really young, the games that they will focus...
View Article3 Important Hands-on Activities to Add to Your Homeschool Math
I turn to my current math student. I am feeling a little more than frustrated. We are solving problems I know they know how to solve. Yet every time I give the new problem, “What’s 4+5?” I receive,...
View Article5 Steps to Homeschooling Peace When You have a Strong-Willed, Intense, Child
My oldest has always been intense. From the time that she was born she made her presence known…and heard. Sleep was her mortal enemy. I thought that if I could just get her into a routine, all would...
View ArticleMake Homeschool Lessons Interesting Using STEM a Step by Step Guide
It’s easy to get stuck in your curriculum. Especially math. Where everyday you’re just plodding through, from one problem to the next. You feel it, the kids feel it, it’s boring. And when things...
View ArticleMeaningful and Interesting: A Beast Academy Review
I had just asked my son what he was grateful for and was surprised by his answer, “Math! I am learning so much!” Now, this boy loves math. But enough that it won out over his computer games in his...
View ArticleMy Structured Unschooling Schedule
I have been struggling trying to find the perfect schedule. I will think I have it and then something changes. A new baby, no more naps for the toddler, but more than anything else it’s me that...
View ArticleDyslexia Curriculum Review: Learn How to Read with Games
I have found a solution to my struggles with teaching reading! Why is teaching reading so hard? It shouldn’t be this hard. In fact, it wasn’t with my first. She pretty much taught herself how to read....
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