Our family strives to have PE at home, which means indoors in the bad weather and outside when we can. Having some PE gear at home, and knowing what resources are readily available has made a world of difference in our homeschool and in our children's fitness levels. Creating a home gym for your homeschool doesn't have to break the bank, either. Here are some of our favorite resources for teaching PE class at home. ...
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Homeschool Recap: What We Used to Teach 3rd & 4th Grade
In November, we left cyber school to see if homeschooling would be a better fit for our family. Due to the stress that cyber school had caused, we took a more informal approach to the remainder of the academic year. This year, our children were in 3rd & 4th grades. This made it easy for science, social studies, art, music, phys ed/health/safety, and life skills to be taught to both children at the same time - sometimes taught by me and sometimes worked on ...
15+ Resources for Teaching Literacy
In the '80s, I was an elementary school student. In kindergarten we learned our letters and numbers, very basic sight words, and spent most of our half-day of school learning through play. Being a nun was the only requirement needed to teach in Catholic school. That nun told my parents I wasn't good a student and I wasn't meeting the academic expectations. Needless to say, I was only in Catholic school for first grade. Second grade. I ...
First Impressions of the CHAP Convention
The Christian Homeschoolers of Pennsylvania (CHAP) Convention is being held Friday 6/1 & Saturday 6/2 at the Lancaster County Convention Center. There are more than 70 workshops, over 100 vendors on the expo floor, and there is also a used curriculum & book sale. You can still get tickets to attend the 2018 CHAP Convention online or at the door. Since this is my first homeschool convention, I had no idea what to expect. To say the conference is amazing ...
A Homeschooler Walks Into a Teachers’ Convention …
It sounds like the start of a joke, but that's exactly what happened last November. I went to a teachers' convention, and it was an eye-opening experience. ...