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How to Homeschool when Mom has Covid: a Detailed Step-by-Step Tutorial based on Personal Experience
Open your school books and carefully examine the next lesson. Close the books and go lie down in your bed. Tell yourself that you'll try...
Emily
Oct 28, 20201 min read
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Lazy Homeschooling
This is a sneaky method of education and I almost feel like a Homeschool Ninja when I see it happening in my home. You could also call it...
Emily
Sep 25, 20204 min read
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Curriculum Choices for Fall 2020
So far in our short homeschool career it's worked better for me to plan from behind - writing down what we accomplish AFTER it's...
Emily
Aug 13, 20202 min read
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Play Is Work: Riddles to Guess
I was observing my children yesterday and thinking again about all the learning that happens while they "play." If you're skeptical of...
Emily
Jul 30, 20202 min read
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Choosing a Curriculum + Keeping Your Sanity (Part 2)
You can find the first four steps of my planning process here! At this point I now have a list of topics I would like to cover for each...
Emily
Jul 23, 20204 min read
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Choosing a Curriculum + Keeping Your Sanity (Part 1)
As I wrote here, this can be hard! Too many choices plus uncertainty about what you want equals STRESS. We are about to embark on our...
Emily
Jul 14, 20204 min read
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Favorite Homeschool Books
Planning a homeschool year can be very overwhelming. There are - quite literally - a million and one resources and curriculum available,...
Emily
Jul 7, 20202 min read
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Pond Life
Charlotte Mason recommends returning to the same nature spot over and over again, and just recently I've begun to see the wisdom in this...
Emily
Jun 23, 20201 min read
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Interest-Based Learning
I've never been a huge fan of unschooling but if all my kids were like my oldest I just might be converted. We affectionately call him...
Emily
Jun 22, 20203 min read
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2019-2020 School Year Summary (1st Grade & 4K)
You know there's a pandemic going on because this is my third post in a month. Ha! Suddenly we've all got a little (or a lot of) extra...
Emily
Apr 23, 20209 min read
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Road Trips With Little Ones
Almost four weeks ago the six of us completed a 2,000 mile road trip, and I still feel a bit amazed when I think about it. We've taken...
Emily
Apr 15, 20205 min read
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Homeschooling With a Baby
... is hard! No matter how you cut it, add a baby to any activity and it will most likely be 1) slower and 2) more difficult and 3) more...
Emily
Mar 4, 20204 min read
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December Routine
No matter how you cut it, December is just BUSY. In the span of a month, we've got two trips out-of-state to visit family, a church...
Emily
Dec 16, 20193 min read
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Wordless Picture Books
We've recently found some wonderful wordless picture books and I can honestly say that Mom and Dad have been enjoying them just as much -...
Emily
Nov 8, 20193 min read
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Beginning Bach
We definitely didn't get to everything on my list for September, but I am so glad that we were able to spend a good chunk of time...
Emily
Oct 1, 20192 min read
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Fresh Air
We didn't crack open a single (school) book today, and we have zero regrets. Instead, we wandered through the woods, threw rocks into...
Emily
Sep 30, 20192 min read
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Back to Homeschool
Our first week is in the books... literally! We dove into our new textbooks and living books and picture books. We began to tweak, poke,...
Emily
Sep 6, 20192 min read
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August Update: A New School Year Begins!
Summer is almost over, and at risk of offending 90% of the population I will just say that I am not sad about it. Summer is lovely but by...
Emily
Aug 20, 20193 min read
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Our Summer Loop - 2019
As I write this, Little Sister is two weeks old. We are all still adjusting to a new routine with this new little person in our family!...
Emily
Jun 4, 20193 min read
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Independent Playtime
Independent playtime (IP) is one of my all-time favorite parenting hacks. Like, the best, most multi-use tool we’ve found in 6.5 years of...
Emily
May 10, 20195 min read
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Hi! I'm Emily.
And I don't have any pictures of myself without children but I should probably get one to put here cause all this black looks funny.
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