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28 Fantastic Poetry Books for Kids Who Don’t Like Rhymes
Here are 28 beautiful poetry books to help your children fall in love with poetry. Each book is short, funny, and relatable.
How To Inspire A Love Of Poetry In Your Children
Have you ever felt intimidated at the thought of teaching poetry to your children? Here are four-time tested ways to help inspire a love of children’s poetry in your homeschool.
100 History Books That Will Delight Your Kindergartner
Reading Time: 1 min 3 sec You might be asking if there are 100 history books that will delight your kindergartner? It might be hard for you to imagine history as delightful if your primary introduction was through textbooks. Let’s face it, it’s pretty hard...
How to Create A Stress-Free Homeschool
Reading Time: 3 Min. 8 Seconds I sat down late at night and did a google search of how to homeschool. I had no idea that there were (what felt like) a thousand different ways to teach my child. Terms like Classical, Montessori, Waldorf, Unschooling, Charlotte...
How to Homeschool When You Hate Certain Subjects
Reading Time: 5 Minutes Do you ever wonder how to homeschool when you hate certain subjects? Do feelings of inadequacy overwhelm you when you think about teaching subjects you flunked? Did you have such a miserable experience that you don’t want to touch the...
7 Amazing Benefits To Homeschooling In The Summer
Reading Time: 4 min 49 sec The end of May rolled around and we closed our school books with a bang. I don’t know who was more excited for NO SCHOOLWORK: me or the children. I was more than ready for this school year to be done. The first couple of days were...
17 Ideas to Celebrate the Last Day of School
Reading Time: 3 min 53 sec When I first heard about celebrating the end of the school year with a party, I thought it sounded brilliant. I mean who doesn’t want an excuse to eat yummy food, and have fun?! However, when the end of the year rolled around, I...
Amazing And Affordable Curriculum Ideas for First Grade
Reading Time: 10 min 32 sec I don’t know about you, but I love planning for a new school year. It can feel like a treasure hunt as I comb through various places to find just that right tool to help learning come alive for my child. I have compiled a list...
The Behind the Scenes Look At Homeschooling
Reading Time: 4 min 25 sec Do you ever wonder if homeschooling is really all everyone says it’s cracked up to be? Do you ever wish that you could get a real (not just Pinterest worthy) perspective on homeschooling? There are so many articles that trumpet the...
The Fear Of The Lonely Homeschooler
Reading Time: 4 min 58 sec I pushed my cart up to the checkout counter at my local grocery store. My cashier was an early twenty-something who just oozed personality. I swear, part of the job description for working at this grocery store is the ability to make...
A Homeschool Day In the Life
Reading Time: 4 min 48 sec When we first decided to homeschool, we had a vision to create a certain type of atmosphere for our children. We wanted to foster deep family relationships, build life long memories, dive down rabbit holes, and allow our...
How to Unlock Hidden Secrets to Affordable Homeschooling
Reading Time: 4 min 21 sec You are interested in homeschooling but one of the huge hurdles is the budget. Last time you checked, you are not Bill Gates, and you have kids that are determined to eat you out of...