Category: Homeschooling
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Popping the Phantom Mom MACHE podcast
Last fall I was interviewed by Minnesota Association of Christian Home Educators for their podcast. Dayle Annand, their director of outreach, and I had a lot of fun discussing what […]
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Old-Fashioned Lessons That Never Go Out of Style–Cursive Handwriting
Who writes in cursive, anymore? Mostly people over the age of thirty-five. Why is it important? Is it important? I mentioned to our local postmaster once that I homeschooled […]
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The Oldest of Old-Fashioned Lessons–Read Great Books!
A liberal education where one is exposed to all manner of views should confirm whatever is right and good. In college, studying Plato confirmed my faith because it lined […]
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Old-Fashioned Lessons That Never Go Out of Style–the Analog Clock
Telling time. It’s one of the first things we start teaching kindergartners. I remember the model clock in my kindergarten class. It had a huge wooden face with big, red […]
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Old-Fashioned Lessons That Never Go Out of Style–Drills
Fun, huh? Not! But, oh, so important! Drills are part of memorization. For the Grammar stage of subjects such as playing musical instruments and sports, drills are physical rather […]
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Old-Fashioned Lessons That Never Go Out of Style–Memorizing
How boring! Who likes to memorize? Everyone always talks about how hard it is. But if you read Little House on the Prairie books or Tom Sawyer or Elsie […]
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Old-Fashioned Lessons That Never Go Out of Style–Silence
What has been growing on us in our family is that simple is best. In the “old days,” they didn’t have all the fancy bells-and-whistles curricula that are available […]
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15 Ways to Teach Your Kids to Write Using Books: #1–Talk About Stories
My adult son, Ben, is my writing club. Almost all of my kids have spent time writing but he is a natural. We still have his first story. At age […]
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Candy Rocks
How are rocks made? At homeschool group one day, we played with gummy bears to see how Sedimentary, Igneous, and Metamorphic rocks are formed. The kids had a lot of […]