by Kay Chance | Encouragement, Encouraging & Equipping You, Parenting
Dear Mom of Little Ones, you’ve heard us as older women say some pretty dumb things, like “Enjoy every minute your kids are little.” Y’all we get a little nostalgic and forget just how hard it is to be in the trenches of toddlerhood. Thank you for not slapping us in...
by Kay Chance | Encouraging & Equipping You, Homeschool Curriculum, Resources, & Book Reviews, Uncategorized
[The following post contains affiliate links. You can read my disclosure here.] If you’ve read much on this blog, you know I’m a big fan of a natural learning approach. To me it just makes sense. How do children learn to speak? By listening and imitating...
by Kay Chance | Uncategorized
We really like “Days” that come up on our calendars. Valentine’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, and even April Fool’s Day (Well, if you are my son who set my alarm to go off at midnight one year 😜 He may have enjoyed that one more...
by Kay Chance | Encouraging & Equipping You, Homeschool Curriculum, Resources, & Book Reviews, Learning with Living Books, Teaching Language Arts, Teaching Writing
I don’t ever remember wanting to reread a textbook from school. Do you? Honestly, the only books I remember from my English classes were a few of the novels, the real books, that we read, along with some short stories from anthologies. But the real books? As an...
by Kay Chance | Discipleship, Learning with Living Books, Learning with THE Living Book, Teaching Language Arts
[The following post contains affiliate links. You can read my disclosure here.] Our Poetry Teatime today is inspired by the Hebrew Poetry of the Bible.Whether a person is a Christian or not, most will acknowledge the literary beauty of Scripture. But as a Christian,...
by Kay Chance | Learning with Living Books, Teaching Language Arts
[The following post contains affiliate links. You can read my disclosure here.] Valentine’s Day, Easter, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas. When most of us see the word holiday, we tend to think of one of these. And all of those can inspire your Poetry...
by Kay Chance | Learning with Living Books, Teaching Language Arts
[The following post contains affiliate links. You can read my disclosure here.] For 5 days in a row, I’m sharing some Poetry Teatime inspiration. To learn more about what poetry teatime is, check out Julie Bogart’s video. You can even download a Poetry...
by Kay Chance | Learning with Living Books, Teaching Language Arts, Teaching STEM
[The following post contains affiliate links. You can read my disclosure here.] Welcome to Day 2 of 5 Days of Poetry Teatime Inspiration. If you aren’t familiar with Brave Writer’s Poetry Teatime, start with Day 1 of this series. When you make Poetry...
by Kay Chance | Learning with Living Books, Teaching Language Arts
[The following post contains affiliate links. You can read my disclosure here.] Poetry. The word either makes a mother swoon with joy or strikes fear in the depths of her soul, the latter of the two being the most prevalent it seems. I have a feeling it has a lot to...
by Kay Chance | Encouraging & Equipping You, How to Homeschool, Practical Help
Sometimes when we are in the middle of something it is hard to get an accurate picture of what is really going on. But seeing the view from the top may just give us the perspective we need to create the homeschool we want. I took this photo while hanging over the side...
