Christian Homeschooling Moms
How to create a free day planner that perfectly fits your unique needs.
There are homeschool day planners everywhere. The choices are overwhelming. They all look so neat and tidy, holding promises of well organized, smoothly flowing days where nothing falls through the cracks. The problem is I always ended up trying to fit our life into someone else’s planner design and it never worked out quite as well as the promises. [Read more…]
I am burnt out on planning. I find myself having to re-plan all the time. Meals, play dates, lessons, next year’s lessons, activities, chores. You get the picture. I get so overwhelmed by decisions! How do you cope with this or minimize having to keep making new lists, rules, incentives all the time as the kids needs change?
Sara [Read more…]
I love this question! I love the enthusiasm and devotion of a mom who wants to inspire her child’s love of learning.
The best part is homeschooling kids under the ages of 7-8 is inexpensive, easy, and fun.
There are so many ways to take in and retain information. Using just reading, writing and regurgitating onto a test may be okay in the short term, but for long term mastery we need to engage all of a child’s learning capabilities. Most curriculums focus on reading, writing and math. Yet we can learn through:
There is more than one way to be smart and there is more than one way to learn. Many children struggle with traditional text book and workbook curriculums. The struggles aren’t because the children aren’t smart, the struggle comes when the child is forced to use learning channels that don’t fit with their learning strengths. Yes, they need practice using all modes of learning, but when the subject is already difficult for them, the easiest way to master the material is to take advantage of their strongest learning modes or type of intelligence. [Read more…]
Homeschooling, work or business projects, chores, meal planning, household upkeep, church, community events, sports, holidays, hobbies, caring for friends and family, lesson planning, finding and remembering all those great school activity ideas you find online; how can you keep up with it all? [Read more…]
I’ve always been a bit of a rebel. In high school everyone else was listening to Journey and VanHalen, you can be sure I was more interested in Styx or Boston. If all the popular kids were wearing Perry Ellis and Guess clothing, I was in Levi’s. It has always been my nature to look at what the crowd was doing and do something different because in the crowd is where average lives and I’ve never been what you would call average. [Read more…]
First of all, relax. You can do this. There is plenty of help available today that wasn’t around even 10 years ago. This of course is part of the problem. There is SO much information it is hard to know where to start and who to believe. [Read more…]
When it comes to choosing curriculum, it is a jungle out there. Choosing curriculum for homeschooling doesn’t have to be overwhelming or stressful, once you know exactly where you want to go and how you want to get there. [Read more…]