Find out how to develop your child’s artistic skills at home, to create well-rounded homeschool students. With approximately 1,770,000 students homeschooled in the United States, it’s clear that many agree children can get a quality education right from home. That being said, reading, writing, and arithmetic is pretty standard for each homeschooler, but what about art […]
Kids Can Learn From Your Yard
Outdoor learning is so beneficial to kids! Find out how to incorporate outdoor learning into your children’s lives, plus why that’s so important! Researchers have now found a new name for the phenomenon affecting so many of today’s children: nature deficit disorder. Put simply, this means not spending enough time in God’s creation, to the […]
Homeschool Crafts are Great for the Brain
Find out why you should incorporate homeschool crafts into your lesson plan, plus ideas of how to do so. Crafting provides our brains with a natural antidepressant, so it only makes sense to weave it into your homeschooling lesson plans, somewhere between reading and discussing literature and memorizing the times tables. Introducing your children to different types […]
Homeschool Book It Program
Find out how easy it is to sign up for the Homeschool Book It Program from Pizza Hut! Did you grow up getting Book It pizzas from Pizza Hut as a reward for meeting reading goals? I absolutely loved the Pizza Hut Book It Program, so I was thrilled when I found out that they […]
4 Reasons We Don’t Homeschool
The top 4 reasons we don’t homeschool. I overheard two moms talking one day when we were hanging out with a large group. The first was lamenting the kids her children were stuck with in the classroom. “They’re terrors!” The other mom agreed wholeheartedly, “It’s tough to keep my kids remembering their manners, when the […]
Teaching Time Telling
A cute and simple clock to use in teaching time telling for kids! This post was originally published on Coffee With Us 3 in 2015. However, as I wanted to share this post with my followers in the homeschooling community, I’m republishing it here today. Enjoy! You may remember from my post on Homeschooling Goals […]
It’s Not about the Vaccines
As the vaccine debate rages on, find out why I believe that the vaccine debate isn’t really about vaccines at all. What is it about? As the vaccine debate rages on in our country, I’ve been surprised to see the stance many of my friends have taken in the debate. I’m mostly surprised that so […]
5 of Our Favorite Read Alouds for 5-9 Year Olds
5 of Our Favorite Read Alouds for 5-9 Year Olds Now that you’ve learned why read alouds are so important, I want to share with you some of my family’s favorite read alouds. Links to these books are Amazon affiliate links. Thanks for supporting this blog by using these links! 5 of our favorite read […]
DIY Recycled Shrinky Dinks
Make your own DIY Recycled Shrinky Dinks from garbage! There’s a reason this post is one of our top posts of all time! Making your own DIY Recycled Shrinky Dinks is so much fun, and it costs almost nothing! I’m going to show my age with this post. I remember when I was in middle […]
Why Older Kids Still Need Read Alouds
Find out why read alouds aren’t just for babies and toddlers, but why they’re important for older kids, too! We all know that reading to our young children is really important. Kids that are read to at an early age tend to do better in school, have better listening skills, and it has even been […]