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September 1, 2009

Carnival of Homeschooling

Jennifer from Home Grown Mommy is hosting this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling. Jennifer starts off with a much needed reminder on why we should be thankful that we are homeschooling. She has nicely divided all of the submitted articles into different categories: Thankfulness Lessons/Lesson Plans/Teaching Ideas The “How” of Homeschooling Why We Homeschool Organizing Miscellaneous With a plethora of different articles, there is sure to be something that will help you with your homeschooling year. I was happy to be included with my Organization, Flexibility, Discipline post.

A Journey Through Learning Review

August 31, 2009

Heather L

A Journey Through Learning Review

Posted in Homeschooling, and Reviews

A Journey Through Learning offers beautiful, full color lapbooks and unit studies at affordable prices. Most of the lapbooks include a study guide so you and/or your student don’t have to search for the answers. Munchkin really enjoys doing lapbooks as long as she doesn’t have to do too many at once. In other words, she prefers to do only one lapbook at at time. We have used lapbooks as complete studies by themselves or as review of what has already been learned. With the Journey Through Learning lapbooks, I cut out the components and paper clipped them to the…

File Folder Games

Posted in Homeschooling

I’ve been having fun designing file folder game boards. I tried to make them somewhat generic, so they can be used in many different ways. Most of the game boards are black and white, so the kids can have fun personalizing their own game boards. Munchkin is looking forward to trying out the new games next week. Just click on the images to be taken to the download page for these game boards. This is a science themed game board. I have made up cards using the review questions in Munchkin’s science curriculum. You can find the game board here…

Organization, Flexibility, Discipline

Posted in Homeschooling, and Thoughts

If I were asked to name 3 keys to success in our homeschool (other than reliance on Christ), I would say organization, flexibility, and discipline. Organization By being organized, I can spend less time gathering our materials and more time designing (and finding) fun materials to use during our school day. Organization allows us to have a better flow to our school day. We don’t have to worry about not being able to locate school supplies, books, or other needed items. If I am under the weather, Munchkin knows where everything is located, so she is able to do most…