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Reading, the Imagination and Costume Play

Amber December 9, 2014

Reading, the Imagination and Costume Play

This spring the world was taken captivate by the colorful paper dresses of a four year old girl named Mayhem. In a short period of time her following on Instagram grew from a few hundred to almost four hundred thousand.  Many things converged to create … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Construct, Handcrafts, Homeschool Libraries, Reviews Tagged With: Charlotte Mason, Drama, dress up, Gail Haley, homeschool library, Homeschool Resources, Imagination, living books, Paper costumes, Richard Scarry

Amber February 25, 2014

Learn Place Value by Playing War

Learning place value can sometimes be a challenge for young math students.  This is because they are moving from a concrete counting system of objects that they can manipulate or can imagine manipulating to a counting system that is bigger than their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: Crewton Ramone's House of Math, Homeschool Resources, How To Homeschool, Math, math games, place value

A Fresh Encouragement for Homeschooling In 2014

Amber January 1, 2014

A Fresh Encouragement for Homeschooling In 2014

How is your homeschool year going?  Did you plan out your entire year in July?  Are you right on schedule - not even one page behind in the math book?  I know that is not true in our school.  We have the year planned, but are not on target - life has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Homeschooling Voices, Uncategorized Tagged With: Charlotte Mason, Homeschool Planning, Homeschool Resources, How To Homeschool, Why Homeschool

Resources For Teaching Your Middle Schooler How To Program

Amber December 1, 2013

Resources For Teaching Your Middle Schooler How To Program

This post is a part of the series How To Be a Coder.  You can read other posts in this series:  How To Be a Coder and Teach Your Toddler to Program. Beginning around the age of eleven our oldest boys started expressing a desire to learn to program.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About Technology, How to be a... Tagged With: Homeschool Resources, How To Be A Coder, learn to code, teach kids to code, teach kids to program

Ten Favorite Resources for Learning About A Charlotte Mason Education

Amber November 17, 2013

Ten Favorite Resources for Learning About A Charlotte Mason Education

If you have heard about the philosophy of Charlotte Mason and wonder why it appeals to so many homeschool families you can read my post Ten Reasons To Choose Charlotte Mason.  This post is also part of the Homeschooling Voices column. Charlotte Mason … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Homeschooling Voices, Inside Voices, Philosophies, Uncategorized Tagged With: Charlotte Mason, Homeschool Resources

History According to Bob

David September 22, 2013

History According to Bob

I am an avid podcast listener.  With a daily commute of at least 30 minutes each way I have lots of time to listen and learn.  Of all the shows I listen to, History According to Bob stands out as my favorite.  With almost ten years of podcasting to his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Homeschool Libraries, Reviews Tagged With: History, History According to Bob, History Podcast, Homeschool History, homeschool library, Homeschool Resources, Podcast

Finding Affordable Books to Build Your Homeschool Library

Amber September 15, 2013

Finding Affordable Books to Build Your Homeschool Library

This is the second post in the series Starting a Homeschool Library.  You can read the first post in which I discussed resources for learning which books to buy here: Starting a Homeschool Library I began our homeschool library from the shelves of Jan … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Homeschool Libraries Tagged With: homeschool library, Homeschool Resources, jan bloom, living books, used books

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