Category: Homeschool For Success | Page 12

by Debra Bell, Elementary, Homeschool For Success

You Are Going to Skip Something…And Other Realities I Wish I’d Known

August 22, 2013

My son Michael wasn’t all that thrilled to be homeschooled the first year we started. He gave me a month, and then took matters into his own hands. He said we needed to set a schedule. We were doing something different every day! He wanted to have math at the same time followed by spelling Read More...

by Debra Bell, Elementary, Homeschool For Success

You Are Going to Skip Something….(Part 2)

August 26, 2013

4. What’s the rush? You have a lot more time than you think. I was always in a hurry with my homeschooling, fueled by a nagging sense of falling behind. I see now that was just a cultural norm not rooted in reality. God has created an inner timetable for each child called development. And it is not the Read More...

by Debra Bell, Elementary, The Science of Learning

Simple Steps to Nurture a Child’s Natural Love for Learning (Part 1)

August 8, 2013

Do you realize the wonderful potential you have to keep your child’s natural curiosity and innate interest in learning alive? Here is an 8-minute cut from a short talk I did for a small group of women hosted in a friend’s home. (Part 2 will post on Monday, August 12.)

by Debra Bell, Elementary, The Science of Learning

Nurture A Child’s Natural Love for Learning (Part 2)

August 12, 2013

Aim Academy Online, Elementary, Reading

Making the Jump: From Learning to Read to Reading to Learn

July 12, 2013

By Lauren Bailes, Aim Academy English Teacher I don’t remember quite when it happened. At one point, I was reading phonics books about dogs, boys, hats, and bats. Making meaning from even these simple words was laborious. There was just so much for my mind to hang on to — the long and short vowels, Read More...

Aim Academy Online, Elementary, Reading

Safe Landing: Reading for Inference after Making the Jump

July 15, 2013

Part II by Lauren Bailes, Aim Academy English Teacher (Part I discussed the value of the development jump, when readers go from learning to read to reading to learn. Find it here.) It’s easy to watch children begin their trajectory as emerging readers, but shaping that trajectory is just as important. Until about 3rd grade (8 Read More...