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Encouraging Vocabulary Development in Toddlers 23 Aug 2013 | 01:28 am
The following activities are excerpted from my book Language Lessons, which is packed with games and activities to enhance skills in listening, comprehending, and producing language. Children learn t...
Beauty in the Heart (Schoolhouse Review) 23 Aug 2013 | 01:21 am
Product: Beauty in the Heart: A Study of Godly Beauty for Young Women ($14) Publisher: Doorposts Beauty in the Heart is a study on “true beauty” for girls or women, ages 10-12 and up. It is divided ...
In the Hands of a Child (Schoolhouse Review) 16 Aug 2013 | 11:36 pm
Emily recently spent a week working through a notebooking pack by In the Hands of a Child. She’s done a variety of lapbooks in the past and enjoyed them but has gotten rather tired of the cutting and ...
Win Free Wholly Guacamole! 15 Aug 2013 | 01:17 am
Are you looking for creative lunch ideas for the new school year? Check out the Wholly Guacamole site for lots of great ideas, to print a coupon, or to enter your own recipe in the contest to win $100...
Scrapbooking Your Field Trips 13 Aug 2013 | 10:10 pm
When my grown kids were younger, we took several big cross-country sight-seeing vacations—one from Alabama to New England and the other from Alabama to Montana. As part of their schoolwork, I had them...
Unseen (Review) 12 Aug 2013 | 09:35 pm
Do you ever wonder about what the truth is about the unseen world? About angels, demons, Heaven, and Hell? We’re surrounded by ideas and images of these things, from fairy tales to television and movi...
America the Beautiful Curriculum (Schoolhouse Review) 10 Aug 2013 | 10:21 pm
We have spent the past month using a beautiful US history program, America the Beautiful, published by the Notgrass Company ($99.95). This program is designed for students in the 5th to 8th grades an...
Common Core—A Path to Excellence? Or Not? 9 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Adoption of the Common Core standards by most states has been big news during the past few months. It may be changing the future of education, certainly in public schools, but will also have an effect...
Working With Your Child’s Learning Styles 8 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
One way to help your child learn more efficiently is to identify his or her preferred learning modalities. I found it very helpful to identify whether my children were stronger in visual, auditory, ki...
Pursuing Academic Excellence Away From the Desk 7 Aug 2013 | 04:31 pm
Most of my friends do not homeschool their children. At my church, there is only one other family that homeschools. I know most families that have never looked into homeschooling have a very limited i...
