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 …
Our family strives to have PE at home, which means indoors in the bad weather and outside when we can. While I prefer outside activities, I need things we can do indoors as well. Having some PE gear at home, along with resources like these fitness games, and knowing what resources are readily available has …
Read part 1 of our #JourneytoHomeschool here. I never expected to homeschool. I didn’t think it would be a good fit for us, but after the year from hell which resulted in us leaving public school, it felt like we were out of options. The local brick and mortar charter school had an annual lottery, …
I never intended to school my children at home. Then my son started kindergarten. It was the year from hell. My daughter had am preschool, my son had pm kindergarten. They both required me to drive them. From pick up time at the preschool to drop off time at the elementary school was 35 minutes. I …
To all of the homeschooling/cyber schooling parents during this back to homeschool season: Give yourself grace. Even with a cyber school, homeschooling your child(ren) is a challenge. There is a lot of work for them and for you. There is a learning curve as you get used to the technology, courses, and teachers. It takes …
