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Lesson Planning Once I selected or put together curriculum, the next thing I do is lesson planning; or spreading out the lessons over the year. When I started off years ago, I would very meticulously write down the page numbers of all topics to cover that day, into a book, under the respective days. But […]
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After I do my curriculum planning for the coming year, my next step is to make the space available! In other words, clearing out schoolwork from past year, filing them away, going through resources, decluttering and reorganizing. By April, I start counting the days for the year to be done… Most subjects may have already been completed, but
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In light of the COVID, and uncertainty as to the reopening of schools next academic year, I thought I’ll do a series of posts in getting ready for the new school year. Hopefully this will benefit those already homeschooling, and those considering homeschooling over online public schooling. With homeschooling, parents get to provide their own
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Why homeschooling is different from public school-at-home and quarantine schooling Recently, it seems there’s lots of misconceptions about homeschooling, as most families who are forced to do public school-at-home as a result of COVID 19 school closures, are considered as ‘homeschooling’. There is a big difference between homeschooling and public school-at- home. There is even
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I am hoping each of you are doing ok in this unique time we are living in now. I’m sure you may know of family or friends impacted by the corona virus. Praying for God’s grace, peace, and strength during these tough times. It’s quite ironical how I had posted couple of months ago about
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First of all, I have an announcement to make. We had our 9th baby girl few weeks back! With God’s grace, everything went well. Baby is doing fine. So now, we are at 4 girls and 5 boys 🙂 Usually after baby comes, I’m back to normal life with all the running around, taking kids
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Lots of people ask me how I manage to do a lot despite caring, managing, cooking etc for a household of 10 (well almost 11 😃. Yes, we are expecting baby #9 next month!) While the truth of the matter is that I don’t manage to do all the things on my to do list, I
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Some months of the year are just too busy for ‘normal school’. With just kids activities/ outside classes, doctors appointments etc etc, I find myself on the road with the kids for upto close to 180 miles a week some seasons!!! One time I was actually on the road for over 500 miles that week!
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Cultivating gratefulness is not something we should start thinking of right around Thanksgiving time. It is something that should be emphasized and even modeled right from the start, lifelong. Gratefulness in literary terms, is ‘being deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received’, according to the MW dictionary. Without gratefulness, one is certainly bound to be
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In a family of 10, unless you have a system for shopping/ purchasing and using, it is very easy for expenses to get out of control. We easily go over about 1.5 gallons of milk in one day, and about 10 lbs chicken leg-quarters in just 2 meals. Now you know what I mean! In
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