The Importance of Sleep in Your Child’s Learning

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  Sleep is crucial for a child’s growing brain. Studies have found that a good night’s rest can have a massive impact on a child’s ability to develop and ultimately find success in the classroom. In fact, simply getting an extra 18 minutes of sleep a night can have significant effects on an elementary student’s
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Write The Essay

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  We homeschoolers are an odd bunch. We sometimes think that because we can do something means that we should do something. This reminds me of 1 Corinthians 10:23: “All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.” Quite often, we
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Teachers are Seed Planters

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  As I glanced over at my garden this morning, something caught my eye. I could see what appeared to be a flower blooming next to the arbor. I thought for certain I was mistaken, since I had not planted anything in that spot this year or last year. I went over to investigate. To
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Five Teachable Moments for Using Math Skills

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  As homeschooling educators, we have a unique opportunity to seize “teachable moments” in our everyday routines to reinforce math skills with our students. Whether you homeschool kindergarteners or fifth graders, you can find plenty of ways to incorporate math skills into your day-to-day activities. Check out these five tips below: Telling Time Practice telling
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Nourishing Your Heart Will Make You Happier in Your Homeschool

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  A step-by-step guide to taking care of your heart Our culture is rooted in dissecting things into different bits. While this may have been helpful at one point in history, when we were still attempting to understand many things, it has never been the way toward wholesomeness. If we want to be healthy and
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Ideas for Any Homeschool History Class

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  History. Woo-hoo! I love the subject. Even though my major in college was Early Childhood Education, all my electives were historical in nature. ‘Cause every kindergartner needs to know about the Revolutionary War. I’m always surprised when I come across folks who shudder when recalling their own experiences with history in school. I am
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Homeschooling. For Now

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  “So…where do your kids go to school?” “Oh! We are homeschooling for now.” …for now. For now. Back in 1997, when Bill Clinton was committing to another four years in office, the Hale-Bopp comet was doing a fly by, and The Lion King opened on Broadway, our little family of four embarked on the
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Where His Heart Now Shudders: The Liberating Pen of John Newton – Part Two

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  The words…they seemed so hollow. What power would they have to lesson one less stripe of the lash that his ships – his slave ships – had condemned innocent men and women to? What life could it bring back from being snuffed out through abuse and hard labor in what, at the most, was
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