Getting Ready for the New Homeschool Year Series – 2 Homeschool Room Cleanout

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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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Getting Ready for the New Homeschool Year Series – 1 Curriculum Planning

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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

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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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Teaching Kids Gratefulness

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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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A look at the Different Homeschool Methods and Educational Philosophies

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Different homeschool families follow different educational philosophies and methods. In fact, there are numerous methods that families tweak to their own style that no two homeschools will be looking the same! In this post, I hope to provide a glimpse into the different methods.  Before I start, I’ll let you know that I have been

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