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How to Organize Your Home for Successful Homeschooling

June 22, 2012 educational resources

I recently found this video online and wanted to share it with you guys. It gives lots of excellent information about homeschooling from the perspective of three moms who have been doing this for 15+ years. The video covers: hot to get organized how to be practical and set priorities how to make a plan [...]

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Homeschool Curriculum: What We Are Learning Week 4 (A Look at Kindergarten History and Geography)

June 19, 2012 Homeschool

Last week a reader (Karen Bailey) left a comment wondering about our History and Geography homeschool lessons as we were studying Egypt, Greece and The Roman Empire. On the surface, or at first glance, this does seem like a lot for a kindergartener. Karen’s comment said: One question I have for you is how do [...]

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Homeschool Curriculum: What We Are Learning Week 3 (and Solutions for Hands-on Learners)

June 11, 2012 Homeschool

I am a checklist person- especially with our homeschool curriculum. Each day we do not get each item done on the list for that day. I am learning to be ok with carry over. My boys are still adjusting to all of the reading that is involved in the curriculum and in turn I have [...]

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Homeschool Curriculum: What We Are Learning Week 2

June 4, 2012 educational resources

We have completed our first week of homeschooling. We’re still trying hard to find our groove, but I know it will come with time. The first two days we completed all of the tasks for each day. The curriculum is literature-based so there is a lot of reading and my kids want to do more [...]

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Home Makeover: Sprucing Up Our Homeschool Area with #GELighting

May 31, 2012 Homeschool

As you know we’ve started homeschooling our twins recently. Initially I wanted a schoolroom set up in our house using one of our extra bedrooms (the playroom). Chalkboard, desks, cubby areas for the kids to put their stuff, the alphabet stapled to the wall… you get the idea. Then I realized, I need to make [...]

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Homeschool Curriculum: What We Are Learning Week 1

May 28, 2012 educational resources

We are starting our first week of homeschool for Nick and Luke using Sonlight Core A curriculum which is the equivalent of Kindergarten. The core focuses on World Culture overall. We’ve decided to start now because our kids want to start now. There are 36 weeks of curriculum leaving 16 weeks of vacation time to [...]

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Homeschool: We’ve Chosen Our Curriculum

May 21, 2012 educational resources

If you follow Crystal & Co., over on Facebook you know I have been on the fence for a while about homeschooling. My husband has been pretty adamant about our three youngest children being homeschooled. Remember, we are a blended family. Our two older boys (currently 5th and 7th grade) have always been in public [...]

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