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Continue reading →: Tip #8: Live Beyond Maintenance
The Florida Parent Educators Association in my home state holds a wonderful convention every May hosting stimulating and encouraging speakers, hundreds of exhibitors, and featuring creative programs for the entire family. At the end of each year I look forward to the convention weekend as a celebration of the completion…
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Continue reading →: Tip #7: Read the Classics
When our children were quite young, my husband read aloud to them. It began with nursery rhymes and bedtime stories, but it was not long before he was reading poetry and classic novels to them. They enjoyed hearing Dad read Winnie the Pooh with different inflections and…
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Continue reading →: Tip #5: Don’t Overlook Reading Difficulties
Although I taught reading basics to each of my children in kindergarten, they each learned to read at different ages. My first child didn’t really read well until she was in 3rd grade, but became my most avid reader. I remember being relieved when I saw that once she began…
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Continue reading →: Day 4: Homeschooling Tip of the Day ~ Youngest First
Teaching our children at home is a challenging task, but it is all the more difficult when there are also toddlers demanding our attention. My children were only about eighteen months apart and when I began teaching my older two children, I still had a two-year old competing for my…
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Continue reading →: Day 3: Reading Homeschooling Tip ~ Link Words to Pictures
When children learn to read they link words with the pictures in their minds. The more that you can assist this attachment of word to image, the easier it will be for your young readers to understand the words that they are reading. Phonics and phonemes are necessary for decoding…
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Continue reading →: Homeschooling Tip #2: Spelling Madders!
My children were not the best spellers. We began with phonics and then memorized the spelling rules, but it never seemed to work its way into their actual writing. That was until I discovered a book called Spelling Power. It wasn’t that the book was so phenomenal, but the lesson…
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Continue reading →: Back to My First Love
This morning I read the first eleven verses of Revelation in the Bible. John has received a word/vision from Jesus that he is to write to the churches in his day. The picture John is given is of seven lampstands, each representing a church which is given the task of…
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Continue reading →: Reading your way through the Holidays
So many of my favorite home school memories involve reading good books aloud. For many years we began our days with me reading both devotional books and historical fiction to the children and ending the days with Daddy reading classics to all of us. When the books were riveting, the…
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Continue reading →: Home School Mom or Frazzled Chauffeur
When the kids were young, learning at home often included outings that made our weeks go more smoothly and enjoyably. I felt that these extra-curricular activities were educational and necessary for our children to be well-rounded and ‘socialized’. I must admit that I also felt the need to make sure…
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Continue reading →: High School Homeschooling Tip of the Day (Oct 31) – Happy Halloween!
Write, write, write! That’s the last tip of the day for October. Have your high schooler write. Whether it’s a poem for a contest, the Nanowrimo challenge in November, an article or story for your homeschool support group, or an editorial for the local newspaper, have your student write. The…
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