Let's just not. Let's just say no, we can't do that. Let's just say, I'm not going to homeschool without an encyclopedia. Why, oh why, would you not want well organized, well researched, easily accessible information available to you at all times right at your … [Read more...]
Reading Aloud
I think over the course of the Spring and Summer that doing some posts on using literature as the backbone of education would be kinda fun. FYI. I know that kinda isn't a real word. I'm just being colloquial.Let's start with some basics. Reading aloud. … [Read more...]
Making the most of your homeschool content
There's a lot of talk about content these days by the Internet people. "How to add content to your website, blog or podcast." "Content marketing." "How to produce content." "What your content says about you." "How to write content that increases your … [Read more...]
Ten ideas to improve your homeschooling day
HAHA. That title was just a hook. I thought maybe NEWSLINQ would pick it up. Maybe it would have been better if I had said, "She woke up with the intention of homeschooling her children, as usual, and then THIS happened...I am SO TIRED of the "ten ideas" of … [Read more...]
Resources for Dictation and Reading
Let's start with Dictation for this post. Virtually any source material can be used for dictation. Our family uses a lot of poetry, a lot of quotes, scripture, excerpts from novels or story books we love. Occasionally a science text or math text, or a non … [Read more...]
Onion as Curriculum
Let's get back to that slice of onion.You've looked at it under a microscope, seen what it's made of, it's structure, it's little parts. Maybe you've looked up types of cells. Today you take another thin slice. It makes your eyes water. You find out … [Read more...]
Passion
The first time we walk through the process of teaching a child to read, whether actively or passively, we learn how to do it ourselves. We re-learn, in a sense, the beautiful process of reading. And the next time we walk through the process, it is more familiar, more … [Read more...]
Surprised by Education
Children everywhere are reading. On the couch, one at the kitchen table, in bedrooms and basements. All absorbed in thick novels. The silence is almost like no one is home. What a fascinating thing to watch a child learn to read. I doubt there is … [Read more...]
The School Model
We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to conform to school-isms in our homes. The school model may or may not work in the school, lots of different variables that affect the success of an education. In our homes the school model may or may not work, however, the … [Read more...]
Family Education
Reading is, perhaps, the most simple and organic way to teach your kids without plugging into programs and workbooks. It is because there is So Much to learn in every book you read. But the organic, family centered quality comes through reading aloud to … [Read more...]