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Relax into Year ‘Round Schooling
With Fall swiftly arriving and calling us out of indoors and into routine, it is a joyful release to know that the required 180 day academic year is beginning with its rhythm and anchoring. But, if you are like us and enjoy the ‘anchorage’ of daily worthwhile...
Counting the Days or Making the Days Count?
Sometimes, especially in the beginning, meeting homeschooling requirements feels daunting. Oftentimes, much of this angst comes down to believing we must do more and be better than a traditional school teacher, and our child must grind through material with perfect...
Teach at Academic Level
In our daily Faithful Scholar’s posts and emails, it is wonderfully clear how much we love the sweetness of our children, awakening their wonder of learning, and homeschooling them toward a lives of brilliance. I read the honor and amazement of all that we get to do in a day. It tickles me…
Homeschooling Olders alongside Littles
The key is knowing that they want to do what the 'big kids' and parents are doing. Allow them to begin practicing (through play) your future plans for how you want them to approach lessons beyond tracing their name with a colored crayon. Children play school until...
Gauging Success
Revised and Updated May, 2023 If you gauge your elementary student against public schooled students you will feel that he/she is behind, but if you teach at home at least through 3rd grade you will find that your child will zoom right ahead of his public schooled...
Balancing Learning and Joy
Rest easy. You absolutely cannot academically ruin an elementary level student. These little guys are made to bounce in all ways. Their resiliency and absorption ranks right up there with Elasta-Girl. The most typical mistake we over-excited, eager, fun-loving...
Dylexia, A Gift
We always have several gifted children in our family. I consider dyslexia a gift, and am an ever-reaching, ever-growing, ever-succeeding dyslexic myself. At least one of our children has this same gift, another is gifted with a processing disorder, and a third is...
Beginning at Age Three
You have made the biggest decision already which is to homeschool. Doing so ‘from the beginning’ is a lovely way to build your home culture to weave fully with a culture of education, building a library in your home as you collect books, and blend learning with...
Success in Our Day to Day
Parent: I feel like I have hit a brick wall with homeschooling 4 of my kids: 7 years old, 8 years, 10, and 12 years old. I have a 1 year old as well. I feel as though I am failing them. It kills me to think of putting them in public school I want this to work. We...
End of Year Fizzles
What leads to burn out at this time of year? How can we instead be encouraged, or at least enjoy a motivated push toward the finish line? We have had lovely Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks, perhaps a Winter Break and a Spring Break, yet April and May are the times...
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