comparisons
Monday, 21 January 2019 / Published in Articles, Blog

Set Comparisons Aside

  I have always found it hard to get back to our school schedule after the holidays have passed. Facing the later half of the school year, I constantly analyze how my kids are doing with our curriculum and how I can push them further. Worst of all, I catch myself comparing their growth and
in touch
Friday, 18 January 2019 / Published in - Family, Articles, Blog

Ideas for Keeping in Touch with Long Distance Relatives

  We moved to South Korea when Clarissa was eighteen months old. I felt bad taking the only grandbaby on both sides to the other side of the world. But I also knew that there were things that I could do to help Clarissa keep in touch with her extended family. Care PackagesI hang up
writing
Thursday, 17 January 2019 / Published in Articles, Blog

Writing at a Gallop

  Passion is the heart of story. No good writer has ever existed without him being thoroughly interested in what he is writing about – as an essay by a young English man over two hundred years ago teaches us. While we don’t know much about the childhood education of Thomas Clarkson, we do have
faithfulness
Wednesday, 16 January 2019 / Published in Articles, Blog

Faithfulness

  How do people invest 14 years of their lives to homeschool their children? Ask any Christian homeschool parent and they’ll tell you – faithfulness. Faithfulness can be described as being strict or thorough in the performance of duty. Faithfulness, then, applied to homeschooling is persevering in teaching your children even when you are criticized
pattern
Tuesday, 15 January 2019 / Published in - Games and Activities, Articles, Blog

5 Patterning Games for Kids

  Red. Blue. Red. Blue. Big. Big. Small. Big. Big. Small. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. Patterns are everywhere! If you’re looking for a fun way to practice patterns with your kids, give one of these games a try. They’re: Easy to set up Fun to play Full of learning Because learning
winter blues
Monday, 14 January 2019 / Published in Articles, Blog

Preventing the Winter Blues

  With the busyness of the holidays behind us, January can be a time of rest or a time of new beginnings with ambitious resolutions. As the month wears on, with gray days and cold temperatures, it can also be a time of dreariness. As the frigid weather in some areas hinders regular outdoor playtime,
goodbye
Friday, 11 January 2019 / Published in Articles, Blog

Saying Goodbye to a Great Man

  I have always found hearing the horn of a train in the distance to be a lonely sound, particularly on a rainy and foggy day. This feeling was the same as I heard Engine 4141 draw ever nearer to the spot my husband and I had staked out across from the tracks on Wellborn
children
Thursday, 10 January 2019 / Published in - Planning and Organization, Articles, Blog

Two Ways Children Can Help Create Homeschool Lessons

  Educating our children at home has given us the ability to have freedom and flexibility in choosing topics throughout the school year.  In the beginning of our journey I took it upon myself to choose what we studied but over the past two years I have incorporated the children in those decisions.  Though they