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Brain-based Teaching Tip 2 – Move More, Learn More
Read the first tip in this series to learn the crucial role you play in helping your children succeed academically. Continuing this blog series on brain-based teaching tips for your homeschool, here is...
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A Closer Look at Our Daily Lesson Plan Layout
I’m looking at your curriculum, but I need more information. Could you explain the daily lesson plans layout and exactly what subjects they cover? Thank you, Rachel Because we get variations of this...
View ArticleHow to Teach Your Students to Write Better in Five Minutes
#1 She was tired when she finished her paper at midnight. #2 Sleepily, Mary slowly climbed under the cool sheets and let out a huge, satisfied sigh. Although she didn’t finish writing until the clock...
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Turn Listeners into Learners by Priming their Brains
Did you know that you can turn listeners into learners by priming their brains? “Priming” is something you do to wake up your students’ brains and get them ready to learn. Remember reading about how...
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Brain-based Teaching Tip #4: Integrate Subjects for Easy Multisensory Learning
Brain scientists say that in “real life” we usually learn more than one thing at a time. And we often learn something using more than one sense at a time. Learning more wholistically, rather than...
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Our Most Popular 20+ Lesson Plans for You
It makes me smile seeing the Facebook pics of all the kids’ first day back to (home)school! Seeing those pictures remind me of how I loved those days of new books and curriculum, shiny clean notebooks...
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5 Simple Steps to Your Big Picture Plan for Homeschooling High School
Do you have a late middle schooler or 9th grader? If you are planning on homeschooling through high school, there are some things I know about you: You know how important these high school years are....
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5 Simple Steps to Your Big Picture Plan for Homeschooling High School
Do you have a late middle schooler or 9th grader? If you are planning on homeschooling through high school, there are some things I know about you: You know how important these high school years are....
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How to do a Simple Mid-year Homeschool Assessment 📚
Last weekend we finally finished taking down the Christmas tree, packing away the ornaments, creche, candles, bows (we re-use those), wrapping paper, and hanging the wreaths in the attic. And...
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5 Simple Steps to Your Big Picture Plan for Homeschooling High School
Do you have a late middle schooler or 9th grader? If you are planning on homeschooling through high school, there are some things I know about you: You know how important these high school years are....
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6 Secrets for staying calm when your children are misbehaving
There is nothing more irritating than listening to one of your kids taunting, or teasing, or picking on a sibling. Or doing something that you expressly told him not to do. Or maybe your blood boils...
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Using Train up a Child Curriculum With Other Curriculum
When you start homeschooling, you often try and make it look like “real” (public) school. This first phase usually entails getting a “box” curriculum that includes all the subjects and you use it...
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15 Creative Language Arts Lessons Using Living Books
If you homeschool the Charlotte Mason way, you have often heard that narration is “the” activity to do after reading living books. Narration is great, but did you know that there are other ways to...
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How to teach your children to believe in themselves
Why does one child stare at the ceiling and sigh, while another takes a deep breath, focuses on what he has to do, and digs into his work? The first child might think his work is too hard. He may...
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Want to be rested and ready? Plan your summer break!
There’s nothing worse than that sick feeling you get when summer flies by and you have nothing to show for it. It’s almost time to start school again, and you’ve done nothing you thought you would....
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Is homeschooling better than public schooling?
Perhaps your son has struggled all year to keep up the pace at your local public school. Or your high school-aged daughter has found a questionable group of friends and you feel you are losing her. You...
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Can I use your daily lesson plans without all the books?
How to use our Daily Lesson Plans without all the books A FAQ we get all the time: I love the lesson plan sample I see on your website! I know I should be using a literature-based homeschooling...
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Seven Ways to be a Rock Star Homeschool Mom
This is one of our most popular back to school messages and has been recently updated. You’re chasing the toddler, trying not to slip in the puddle of milk on the floor and the phone’s ringing. It’s...
View ArticleLearn about Martin Luther King!
This post contains affiliate links from books we have read and loved. If you buy a book from our links, we will receive a few cents at no extra cost to you. Dr. King wasn’t just a brilliant man, he...
View Article11 Tips to Simpify your Homeschool Life
This post includes affiliate links. If you purchase something from one, we may receive a small amount of compensation at no extra cost to you. Nothing makes you want to simplify your life like...
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