Posts Tagged ‘Home School Tips’

Back 2 School Time

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! As a homeschooling family we have the luxury of choosing when to begin our school year or continue on from the summer.  This summer we chose to take a bit of a break.  Our summers usually consist of math work, reading...
August 31st, 2009 | My Chronicles | Read More

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year…

JuiceBoxJungle has a funny show (see my sidebar) about Losing It that helps you feel better about yourself as parent and remember to enjoy those crazy times as well as the calm ones. What better time to remind ourselves of this than the beginning of the busy new school year. Cookie Magazine and the...
August 24th, 2009 | My Chronicles | Read More

Ways to Develop Critical Thinking Skills

Critical thinking is often thought as a scientific or analytical way of thinking. It helps us form more knowledgeable opinions and make better decisions. That certainly seems like an important  skill to obtain but how do you develop the ability to think critically? Critical thinking does not equal...
August 22nd, 2009 | Home School Tips | Read More

Developing Your Own Curriculum

There are many prepackaged curriculum available to home school your children. But sometimes, your child may not be ready to use some of the books in the pre-packaged set or may be more advanced in one of the subjects, so making your own makes much more sense. It is not difficult to create your own....
July 7th, 2009 | Home School Tips | Read More

Do You Have An Auditory Learner?

There are different learning styles and I have discussed Kinesthetic and Visual, today we will focus on the Auditory Learner. How do you know if you have an auditory learner? Well, first let’s describe an auditory learner. An auditory learning remembers best what they have learned by hearing...
June 15th, 2009 | Home School Tips | Read More

Do You Have A Visual Learner?

My last post was about kinesthetic learners and today we will focus on Visual learners. This topic is not difficult for me because I can classify myself as a visual learner. A visual learner is one that needs to see pictures to connect what they are learning. Do you have a child that jumps on your lap...
June 6th, 2009 | Home School Tips | Read More

Habla Espanol?

Teaching a foreign language seems to be tricky for some but it is so important to try to incorporate into your home school curriculum. We are at an advantage because I am fluent in the Spanish language and will actually be teaching my children conversational Spanish this year. For those that aren’t...
May 11th, 2009 | Home School Tips | Read More

Homeschooling Children of Different Ages

This is a question I get quite often, how do I home school with children of different ages in the same house, and especially toddlers? What has worked for us and many I have suggested this method to is the rotation system. I have 5 children of all ages. I have taught them that when I am working with...
April 6th, 2009 | Home School Tips | Read More

Motivating Your Teen To Read

Teen years come with a lot of different battles and one of the battles we may face are those of reluctant readers. This at times comes about because they feel reading is a chore, or part of school work and therefore not enjoyable. Another reason may be that they are struggling with reading at the same...
March 18th, 2009 | Home School Tips | Read More

Kids Teaching Kids

Not  sure if you are aware that I have 5 children which I home school.  You may be wondering how I manage to home school all of them considering they are all different ages and in different learning levels.  Well quite simply we use the rotation system on a daily basis. Today was one of those days. When...
November 11th, 2008 | Home School Tips | Read More