Using the Bible as Your Primary Textbook
Note: We strongly urge you to purchase the following book by Ruth Beechick, before attempting to use our vocabulary suggestions:
How We Teach Vocabulary
When we were students, we remember having lists of vocabulary words to learn each week. …
Note: We strongly urge you to purchase one of the following books by Ruth Beechick, before attempting to use our spelling suggestions:
Spelling… It was troublesome for me when I was a child, yet my husband claims it was his favorite subject. …
We believe that so much of what we call “Language Arts” is much easier learned in the context of actual language.Not only will your children learn all the separate components of language, but they will also see how real words operate in real-life writing.…
We have agonized over handwriting in our house. We have two seemingly conflicting viewpoints: First, we don’t consider handwriting “busy work.” Rather, we think handwriting should be incorporated into the other subject areas your children are learning, such as Bible, history, science and literature. …
We have fallen in love with a very unique method of grammar, called the K.I.S.S. Approach and designed by Dr. Ed Vavra, a professor of English grammar at Penn College. We encourage you to visit his website and read more about the K.I.S.S.…
Writing is one of the tools God has given us to communicate with others. Not only can writing be a more permanent form of communication (than, say, speech), it is also more closely evaluated than speech. For instance, if we make a grammatical error while we’re telling about our visit to the mall, most people won’t even notice. …
Clutter is certainly a beast that must be tamed for us moms to ever have enough energy to homeschool. You already know that, so I won’t spend a lot of time repeating why we need to get rid of clutter. Let’s get right to the how!…
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Since we don’t use the phrase “I’m bored!” in our home, we don’t hear our kids complaining about being bored during those long days at home during the summer months.…
by Laura Q. — used by permission
I’m not patient, I’m far from organized, and I’m not disciplined. But guess what? We’re doing great! It would be very very hard to do worse than the public schools in educating your child.…
(Originally written in 2001, when my oldest son was in kindergarten, to give some advice to a friend …)
Hi, friend…
My dishes are done and my laundry is folded, so now I can play for a few minutes. I’m going to try to write down my favorites for homeschooling in every area I can think of, to help you get started. …
