Posted in Lesson Plans / Ideas Religion

Make your Bible study memorable with Legos

My boys love to build things. We can never have too many Legos in the house. On Monday I decided to have them build a…

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Posted in English Spelling Writing

Dyslexia Games

Creative Students CAN Overcome Reading Confusion with Art, Drawing & Logic Games! Make Dyslexia Games your reading curriculum for one semester or a full school year! There are 180 Lessons…

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Posted in 1st grade Kindergarten Preschool Religion

Counting on Faith

Counting on Faith by Maurice Prater Illustrated by Jason Koltuniak Bismarck, ND: Divine Providence Press, 2014 It isn’t every day that you pick up a…

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Posted in English Resources

5 Intervention Resources for Homeschooling with Dyslexia ( & Recent Dyslexia Research)

As parents, we experience a wide range of emotions in short spans of time…. love,  pride, love, impatience, love,  anxiety, love, protectiveness, love,  vigilance….. And more….

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Posted in Science The Homeschooling Life

When a Curriculum Isn’t Working – Trying Something New for Science

As a new homeschool parent I hit my first “road block” in realizing that a curriculum really was not working out for our family.  Part of…

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Posted in Practical Tips

Tailoring Education to a Child’s Temperament

Why is one child so difficult to motivate? Why is another so easily distracted? Why does one plod through his work, while another races? Where…

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Posted in 1st grade 2nd grade 3rd grade 4th grade Kindergarten Preschool Religion

Free Glory Stories Entertain and Provide Faith Formation

Guest post by Caitlin Bootsma With summer fast approaching, it’s always a challenge to adjust to the new normal, whatever that means for your family….

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Posted in Practical Tips Unschooling

How to Think Like An Unschooler

No matter our “homeschool style,” most of us center our homeschool on our children. Our common goal is to graduate children who are prepared for…

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Posted in Practical Tips

Benefits of Group Classes

This year, the three big children have been taking a combination swimming and gym class for homeschoolers at our local YMCA. I had initially decided…

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Posted in Practical Tips Resources

Planning Your Homeschool Year

It’s that time of year again. That time when we’re getting ready to put the current year behind us and start thinking about the next…

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