One of the greatest challenges in homeschooling is learning how to balance your time and attention between your children. This is even more difficult when you have preschool age children and younger running around. With a second grader hungry to learn and a toddler who doesn’t want to miss out on the fun I had […]
3 Simple Steps to Create a Home Writing Center
Our oldest son is drawn to stories. He loves reading them in books, watching them in movies and hearing them from his parents. Over the past few years, this love for stories has turned into an insatiable desire to create characters and storylines. We love this about him and we want to encourage him to […]
A Simple Tool for Better Online Safety
As our oldest son progresses through his schooling he is asking more questions. In our home, when we want to know something, we go to the internet. I’m sure you do the same thing. “Google it!” we all say. At this point we don’t let an 8-year-old search the web alone. My husband or I […]
Summer of Minecraft Camps
You’ve signed your kid up for every VBS in town. They’ve been to every sports camp, art camp, swim camp and theater camp you can find. You’re exhausted and their exhausted but summer isn’t even halfway over. It’s time for something different. It’s time for an in-home summer camp experience like no other. It’s time […]
How to Create Virtual Field Trips with Streaming Video
If I’ve learned anything in all my years of classroom instruction it’s one thing – field trips are a must! There is only so much you can learn sitting behind a desk staring up at a chalkboard or burying your nose in a book. Students need to get out and explore new places and experience new […]