homeschool

Teaching Short Vowel Sounds with Song

September 8, 2011

Will is working through the beginning lessons in The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading. He has already learned all of his short vowel sounds, but we still review them every day. One great way to teach and review the short vowel sounds is by using the song “Old McDonald Had a Farm”. Will has [...]

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Homeschool Field Trip…A Visit with the Dentist

May 4, 2010

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He Couldn’t Tell a Lie…and Neither Could She

February 22, 2010

Sonlight has been our homeschool curriculum of choice. I like, noâ€¦I love the excellent and well-rounded selections that we read within their core curriculum. Sometimes, though, in the ups and downs of homeschool questionings, I wonder if Iâ€™m wasting my time reading these selections. I wonder if I should discard them to focus more on [...]

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Punished

February 18, 2010

Each week in homeschool EA and MC have a memory verse to hopefully commit to memory by the end of the week. I have to say that I was thankful for this weekâ€™s verse as it would give me an opportunity to discuss discipline with the girls and how it is necessary and for their [...]

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Homeschool Science Experiment: Making Gas

January 22, 2010

We conducted our very first homeschool science project this week. We’ve been reading about the three different states of matter in The Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and Nature. In case you don’t remember from your elementary science class, they are solid, liquid and gas. In the book, Mama Bear does an experiment to [...]

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A Real Encourager

November 12, 2009

I’ve written before about what an encourager EA is. She is constantly giving out praises and compliments in the sweetest way. Last week I saw a perfect example of encouragement in an interaction she had with her sister during homeschool. After both of their phonics lessons, I decided it may be fun to play a [...]