Pay attention to ACCURACY – Don’t eliminate prefixes/suffixes – Don’t skim over words or eliminate any – Don’t add random words where you think they belong because this can change the entire sentence. Read with Appropriate EXPRESSION – Ensure that your reading isn’t robotic and you are reading sentences, not words Pay attention to PUNCTUATION…
Category: Homeschooling
Creative Play | QuBits
Sunday mornings are typically spent lazing around, playing games, painting, playing outside- all the things to which there should be no time limit. It is perhaps one of the best days in our home because there are no activities planned and we don’t have an agenda to be anywhere at a specific time. This Sunday…
6 ways to avoid Home school Burn-out!
Below you can find a few of my favorite tips that I pep-talk myself with as well as offer to home school friends. While this journey can be beautiful, it is demanding and burn out can happen easily if you are too rigid and structured in your ways.
Arts and Crafts| Weeks in Review
Mermaid Doll Making Kit This was one of our more special art projects this past week. I purchased this Mermaid kit from Joann’s and it included everything needed to make the mermaid. Instructions were simple and easy to understand and we had fun making it. Transforming Ninja Star with post-it notes One of my sons…
Math Manipulatives
When you homeschool, there is a plethora of activities and gadgets that can be incorporated to aid the learning process, but it can get expensive and overwhelming…i’m going to list the ones we enjoy and find the most useful. Math Dice For more information on the Math Dice, please check out my review here. Coin-u-lator…
Arts and Crafts | Week in Review
One of the reasons I love sharing arts and crafts is because when I started homeschooling, one of the things my child who had gone to public school missed was the crafts they did. Needless to say, i make an ardent effort to ensure that they get their share of these activities.
While Mommy makes dinner…
Sometimes they just run around the house, playing tag and soccer and sometimes, i need some quiet while I complete the things I need to do…I’m sharing a few things that keep my kids quiet while I make dinner. They normally sit around the counter or breakfast table so they are close by and we…
Week in Review| Arts and Crafts
I thought it would be fun to share what a week’s worth of art and crafts look like in our house. There were definitely some that I missed capturing but for the most part, here were the most indulged activities this past week.
Top Picks | 8 Year Old activities
Now that summer is here, the question persists…what do we do with our children?? Below are a few activities my 8 year old enjoys!
Top 10 Kindergarten Books
This academic year my kindergartner read 100 books! My goal was 75, then we added in some cool reading programs like “Six Flags Read to Succeed” that required you to log specific hours of reading in exchange for free tickets and we made our way to 94 before casually adding another 6 to round it…
2nd Grade School Day!
This is something a lot of people are curious about, whether its those wanting to try it out, or those who doubt a child can be educated in a home environment and still excel. The night before I go over the things I want each child to accomplish the next day and then I plan…
Pop Phonics
Fun, interactive, engaging way to teach phonics.
This Beautiful Life of Ours 