Sonlight is having a monthly blog linkup this year, in honor of their 25th anniversary.February’s topic is to share how you first decided to homeschool, and how you decided on a curriculum. I thought it would be fun to join…
Moving from One Sonlight Core to the Next
We have been homeschooling for five years and every year I have followed the same routine that most homeschoolers and even public schools follow. In the fall I moved my children from one grade to the next, selecting new curriculum…
Teaching Short Vowel Sounds with Song
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…
Homeschool Field Trip…A Visit with the Dentist
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He Couldn’t Tell a Lie…and Neither Could She
Sonlight has been our homeschool curriculum of choice. I like, no…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 I’m wasting my…
Punished
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 week’s verse as it would give me an…
Homeschool Science Experiment: Making Gas
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,…
A Real Encourager
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….
Teaching Phonics with The Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading
Over the summer as I was planning out homeschool year I read two great reviews of The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading. Both were from bloggers that I love and respect greatly. One from The Pioneer Woman, who needs…