Have you ever wondered: Do I Really Have to Read Aloud with My Child? Are you concerned that you are going to come across as "one of those" parents if you read to your children early? Or do you dread when your kindergartner is sent home with a new book nightly to be read aloud? Maybe you can feel the boredom or criticism from your older kids as you read to them. Instead of dwelling on these fears and bad feelings, move past them! Reading to your children has so many positive benefits. Experts speculate that illiteracy could be greatly reduced and possibly even eliminated, if parents would read three or more stories a day to their children. Children who are read to tend to be early, proficient readers themselves. They also tend to have a better grasp on language skills overall. Studies have shown that kids do not learn as well from videos as they do from a live, personal interaction, even if the videos and person are teaching the same things. With so much technology available to … [Read more...]
Homeschool Math Favorites
Are you planning to teach Homeschool? These are the favorites for the Math curriculum if you are thinking about how you could possibly get started. These top books are the best way to start making your lesson plans. Check out our Homeschool Math Favorites. Horizons Math 2 - Workbooks 1 & 2 Horizons 2nd Grade Math Student Book 1 contains fun, entertaining lessons that include: counting and writing numbers by 1s to 100-999; using tally marks; recognizing ordinal numbers to 100, less than, greater than, or equal to; adding and subtraction up to four-digit numbers; and understanding inches, centimeters, linear and English weight equivalents. This full-color student workbook contains lessons 180 and perforated pages for easy removal. Horizons 2nd Grade Math Student Book 2 contains easy-to-teach, fun-to-learn lessons that cover: counting money; reviewing geometric shapes and colors; working simple word problems; understanding Fahrenheit temperature; recognizing area, … [Read more...]
How To Homeschool With Little Ones At Home
Homeschooling is not easy. Let me say that again (homeschooling is not easy). This is especially true if you have older children at home you would like to homeschool, but you have smaller children as well. It is possible to be a good mom to your younger children, while allowing your other children to thrive academically. How To Homeschool With Little Ones At Home Go with the Flow Sometimes this approach does not work. You go with the flow, but the kids aren’t really having it. If you are helping an older child with school and a younger child needs your help, try stopping just for a moment. Often times the younger child just wants your attention. Give it to them for the time being and then move back to schooling. Explain to the older child that you are sorry for the interruptions, but the younger ones need you too. Open communication is key to help everyone in the house from becoming frustrated. Self Taught The great thing about homeschooling is that you do not have … [Read more...]
50 Ideas of Summer Fun For Kids
Summer is approaching and for those of us with kiddos, with them being out of school in the Summer time, we need things to help entertain them! Kids get bored easy, so constantly doing things in the Summer time can get very expensive. It's always really nice when you can come up with things to do that are very cheap or even free to do. These things are nice if you have multiple children or maybe you're going to be babysitting this Summer! Great to do and to have a lot of fun along with bonding with the kiddos! Here are 50 ideas of Summer Fun For Kids. Summer Fun For Kids: Other posts you may find helpful if you liked Summer Fun For Kids: How to Help Your Talented and Gifted Child Seven Ways To Teach Your Teenager About Credit Talking to Tweens About Suicide 6 Benefits of Having Kids In Sports Talking to Tweens About Bullying 7 Ways To Help Your Kids Transition To High School … [Read more...]
Tacky Box #Review
Do you ever hear little your little people say something that they shouldn't? Or talk to each other in less than kind way? This is where this Tacky Box comes to the rescue! This is a fun idea created by a mother - daughter team to empower kiddos to change their own words/behavior for the better. The kit includes You simple read the (beautifully illustrated) 32 page book to your child (geared for ages 3-10) and present them with their own box. Let them decorate their Tacky Box. Then the note pads come in! We had kind of a rocky start at this point... Miss Sarah thought she was the "Tacky Police" and wanted to put everyone's tacky behaviour in there. I clarified that it was HER monitoring HER behaviour. (Otherwise I wouldn't be able to call her a little dingleberry anymore when she leaves her clothes on the bathroom floor)! After two months of trying it out -- I have to give the Tacky Box a serious "thumb's up". Miss Sarah is a pretty amazing little girl, but … [Read more...]
10 Free and Fabulous Field Trips for Kids and Homeschoolers
If you are a homeschooling mom looking for some fun, fabulous, and free field trips for kids to take your child to or you are looking for some enrichment activities to do on the weekends or over the summer I have compiled a list of 10 activities that you can find right in your own neighborhood or at least very close by. For little more than the cost of gas you can have an educational and entertaining field trip. 10 Free and Fabulous Field Trips for Kids and Homeschoolers A few tips before you head out: Field Trips for Kids Post Office Our local post office will schedule tours ahead of time and will show you the various areas like mail drops, conveyor belts and trucks. Drop a letter off to Grandma or a friend while you are there. Library Take a tour of the library to show your child the various sections of a library; fiction, non fiction, reference, children's, circulation desk, book return. You can probably even schedule a tour just before or just after … [Read more...]
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