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Monday
May202013

Using Notebooking Pages In Every Area Of Your Homeschool

 

We have been notebooking in our homeschool for as long as I can remember.

Notebooking allows my children to have a scrapbook of their learning. It allows them to express themselves through writing, drawing, cutting and pasting, and more. 

Notebooking can also be done across ALL areas of your homeschool. We have notebooked our way through history, science, and music - with sprinklings of Bible copywork, math notebooking, and notebooking with literature.

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Monday
Apr222013

Keeping Homeschool Records with Homeschool Minder

 

Keeping records in your homeschool is important. 

Consider this article from HSLDA. It made me think more deeply about how I keep records in our homeschool. 

It's been fairly easy  to this point, since my children were elementary aged. I save attendance reports, a large plastic bin of their work (one bin for each year), and I have my blog as documentation, too.

As we are facing seventh grade, however, I know I need to buckle down and keep accurate records of so many things. Record keeping is my weakness, and I've come to realize I need some HELP in this area.

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Sunday
Apr072013

Telling The Truth and Holding Our Tongues

 

Telling The Truth.  Holding Our Tongues.

These are things that children (as well as adults) struggle with. 

Teaching our children about the importance of telling the truth takes repeated and consistent modeling and effort, doesn't it? Teaching them to hold their tongues might even be harder - at least I think it is harder because I sometimes have a VERY difficult time holding my tongue.

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