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Just Add Snow-Day “Specials” Pt. 2

January 27, 2017

When the temperatures are too cold to be outside for long afternoon breaks, games are a perfect way to bring families together, while also reinforcing skills needed for learning. Here are this homeschooling mama’s top picks for beating winter blues through fun and games! Littles Cranium Hulabaloo teaches shape and color recognition while letting children Read More...

Elementary, Preschool, Reading

Just Add Snow Day “Specials” Pt. 3

February 3, 2017

Just Add Snow-Day Specials– Books to Read and Read-aloud When the winter months seem to put a damper on your homeschool, breaking up your days with a sprinkling of “Snow-Day Specials” can be just the cure! Transform your family’s cabin fever by creating cozy-day fun with favorite books to read and read-aloud. Here are just Read More...

The Science of Learning

Learning How To Learn: Barbara Oakley at TEDx

January 17, 2017

Barbara Oakley is a top educational researcher and a professor of engineering. But she wasn’t always a math person. Originally interested primarily in languages and cultures, she made a career change at age 26 (reminds me of myself…I pivoted from French to mathematics when I started college). In this video she explains what she learned Read More...

Elementary, Planning

Is It Me? My Child? Or the Curriculum? What to do when homeschooling frustrations abound

November 21, 2016

Happy November! Time for mid-school year self-evaluations! I sat down with Debra Bell for practical advice on trouble-shooting your homeschool. This week we look at how to pinpoint the root of homeschooling frustrations, and 4 steps to help when the source of the issue is . . . you. 1.Trouble-shoot. Heather Eades: Many of us Read More...

by Debra Bell, Homeschool For Success, Preschool

How to Homeschool Your Preschooler

October 14, 2016

All of us are homeschoolers for at least the first few years of our children’s lives (and I certainly concur with those who maintain parents are always their children’s primary teachers no matter how they are formally educated). So what is really important during these years, especially as it pertains to getting our kids ready for formal Read More...

by Debra Bell, Elementary, Homeschool For Success

Making Memories Out of Milestones

September 20, 2016

One of the attractions of homeschooling is the opportunity to seamlessly fuse our children’s education with the rhythms of family life. One of the downsides, I learned, is children are never quite sure where they stand in terms of their educational progress. More than one of my four kids looked confused when a stranger asked, Read More...

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