One of the few homeschool blogs I read fairly regularly challenged readers to blog about an ordinary day each month of the year, so we could read about real life homeschooling, unvarnished. I loved reading about this blogger’s day and I considered writing my own, but being a bit of a scientist at heart I immediately worried about bias. If […]
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Developing a Love for Reading Aloud in Your Family
Reading great books together is a part of our young family’s culture and I get asked fairly regularly how I get my kids to “sit still and pay attention” for chapter books. Here are my top 5 tips: Start early. My first two children vary a great deal in the length of their attention span, but from the time they […]
Problem Solving – One Reason I Love Learning at Home
The following problem came up in Mackenzie’s Singapore Math Challenging Word Problems (1) book today: An orange weighs 4 units. It is 9 units lighter than a pineapple. What is the total weight of the two fruits? I was all prepared to help her draw out the problem and work through the steps but instead she slid off her chair […]