by Kay Chance | Encouragement, Encouraging & Equipping You, How to Homeschool, Practical Help
Instead of adding one more thing, why not slow down and simplify this Christmas season? Use these Christmas celebration ideas to savor the season. [The following post contains affiliate links. You can read my disclosure here.] Just one more. This wasn’t the original...
by Kay Chance | Encouraging & Equipping You, Homeschool Curriculum, Resources, & Book Reviews, How to Homeschool, Learning with Living Books, Teaching Language Arts, Teaching Tips
Candlewick Press kid lit is perfect for building your home library. And with good children’s books you can do a lot more than just teach reading. You can spark the imagination of your young learners with a few simple ideas. When my two boys were young, we made...
by Kay Chance | Building Family Relationships, Encouraging & Equipping You, How to Homeschool, Learning with Living Books, Teaching Writing
Do you have teens who are reluctant to write? Do they think they don’t have anything worthwhile to say? Maybe they are intimidated by a blank sheet of paper? Or perhaps they see writing as just another assignment to complete. Don’t worry! You can encourage...
by Kay Chance | Encouraging & Equipping You, How to Homeschool
Don’t stress over homeschooling preschool and kindergarten. It doesn’t need to be anything formal at all. And even if your children are developmentally ready to “do school” make sure that you keep it play-based as much as possible. Some...
by Kay Chance | Building Family Relationships, Cultivating Your Heart, Encouraging & Equipping You, How to Homeschool, Learning with THE Living Book, Practical Help
We’ve all had one of those mornings, haven’t we? We get up late, don’t have anything to wear, and realize there is no milk—or worse…coffee. Then our day ends up looking like falling dominoes. In slow motion. Because we didn’t prepare for...
by Kay Chance | Encouragement, Encouraging & Equipping You, How to Homeschool
[The following post contains affiliate links. You can read my disclosure here.] As a mom of two sons in college now, I’ve been looking back and asking the question, “What would I do differently?” I even asked some other veteran homeschool moms to answer the question...