As I’ve already mentioned, the start of the school year is the perfect time to teach children about kindness, I mean, any time is, but if you are looking for the extra push, the start of the school year is perfect. Here are some good picture books to teach your children about kindness! SEVEN PICTURE…
Since we love books so much in this house (in case you couldn’t tell) our first homeschool year is going to be largely literature based. As of right now I think our actual language arts program will be fairly unstructured since the goal for grade one language arts is to pretty much teach children how…
Earlier this year I picked out the word encourage for my year and over the months my word has slowly evolved into intention. Part of the reason I wanted to homeschool my children in the first place was to be intentional with our days together and with their education. But while I’ve been trying to be…
This year we will be taking some time to study the history of the world. It’s first grade so obviously we aren’t going to study the entire history of the world in one year but we are going to take some time each quarter to learn a little about one time period and I’m hoping…
Well, July was a bit of a different homeschool month than June. Our month started out with a few days of camping with family and then Ephraim had eye surgery, so I knew those two weeks would be slow on the intentional learning front and be more of a vacation, but what I didn’t expect…
A few days ago I shared that books are one of my favorite ways to foster imagination in children and today I wanted share a few of our favorite imaginative books with you. (If you like this list, you’ll love 9 MORE Books To Spark Your Child’s Imagination!) The books on this list not only…