There are seven core skills that are central to school success for any child, whether home-schooled or otherwise. By building these skills in your child, you'll ensure that she has a solid foundation for school and for life. Today TestingMom.com wants to share these skills and how you can use them to help your child break away from the pack!
Want to teach your child some new skills while also making wonderful connections to their regular curriculum? Sewing just might be the answer! Sewing not only allows kids to master a new skill set and offers a creative outlet, but also strengthens fine motor skills, enhances creative problem-solving, and employs spatial and math […]
It's important that we teach our children practical life skills--skills that teach them how to survive in society--how to thrive in society. Read on for a great life skills checklist.
Sometime between a frustrating lesson on improper fractions and an oft-interrupted chapter of Where the Red Fern Grows with my three older students, I noticed that it was quiet. Too quiet. I began the unsettling search to find the silent preschooler, and quickly found the tell-tale sign of trouble strewn through the living room and […]
Not sure if the PSAT is something that your homeschooled student should to take? This post asks you some key questions to help you figure out the best strategy. The PSAT is completely optional for homeschool students – but although students may not need to take the test, there are a lot of benefits […]
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The Junior Ranger Program. Really, does it get much better than fun, free (mostly) and educational? This program, hosted by a series of national and state parks, is an exciting way for your kids to learn the environmental and historical aspects of your region. If you are anything like me, you have seen posts about […]
For almost eight months (when we began homeschooling), I have been trying to establish a homeschool routine for my 10-year old son that works to get the most work done, with the least amount of angst and frustration for both of us. And for the same eight months, I have been struggling with the answer, […]
The location of a homeschool is home, plain and simple. You live, eat, and educate right there in your comfy three bedroom two bath ranch with the same view every day. As a roadschooling family we also live, eat and educate in our home; only our home is on wheels. Wheels indicate mobility. Mobility indicates […]
In the movie, WE BOUGHT A ZOO, Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon) is a Los Angeles newspaper columnist and adventure writer who, as a single father, faces the challenges of raising his two young children. Hoping that a fresh start and a new life will restore their family spirit, Mee quits his job and buys an […]