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My Practically Free Guide to Getting Started Homeschooling Elementary School
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My Practically Free Guide to Getting Started Homeschooling Elementary School
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This is my go-to recommendation for new homeschoolers — it's designed to help you find your rhythm, build comfort with leading your students’ learning, and keep the learning going as you find your way. It’s basically a six-month, low-cost-investment guide to starting homeschooling.

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Keeping it Real: The Importance of Authenticity in Your Child’s Writing Life
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Keeping it Real: The Importance of Authenticity in Your Child’s Writing Life
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If you want your students to care about writing, give them writing projects that actually matter.

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Curriculum Review: Michael Clay Thompson’s Language Arts
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Curriculum Review: Michael Clay Thompson’s Language Arts
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Rebecca loves the nerdy grammar fun of Michael Clay Thompson’s Language Arts. It may not be for everyone, but it’s definitely for word lovers.

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Our Morning Routine
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Our Morning Routine
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Aminata and Malcolm have discovered that a purposeful morning routine is the perfect start to their homeschool day.

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10 Family Habits that Foster Lifelong Readers
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10 Family Habits that Foster Lifelong Readers
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A love of reading comes naturally for some kids and not-so-naturally for others, but you can do a lot to make your home a space where reading is an important part of everyday life.

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Teaching Literature-Based History without a Curriculum
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Teaching Literature-Based History without a Curriculum
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Truly, the biggest hurdle to cobbling my own history curriculum together has been organizing the resources in such a way that I know where they are, I remember all of the ideas that I had, and I don’t leave anything out. 

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Finding Out: Curiosity as a Way of Learning
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Finding Out: Curiosity as a Way of Learning
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When you shift your focus from WHAT to learn to HOW to learn, magical things can happen.

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My Practically Free Guide to Getting Started Homeschooling Elementary School
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My Practically Free Guide to Getting Started Homeschooling Elementary School
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This is my go-to recommendation for new homeschoolers — it's designed to help you find your rhythm, build comfort with leading your students’ learning, and keep the learning going as you find your way. It’s basically a six-month, low-cost-investment guide to starting homeschooling.

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Simple Ways to Help Your Elementary Student Build Better Attention Skills
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Simple Ways to Help Your Elementary Student Build Better Attention Skills
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The one skill kids really need to master in elementary school is the ability to pay attention and stick with a project from start to finish. Happily, that’s a skill homeschoolers have lots of opportunities to practice.

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At Home with the Editors: Shelli’s 6th and 3rd Grade Curriculum
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At Home with the Editors: Shelli’s 6th and 3rd Grade Curriculum
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Shelli shares the resources she’s been using in her own homeschool this year.

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Curriculum Review: Better Chinese
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Curriculum Review: Better Chinese
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Shelli reviews a beginner’s Chinese curriculum that’s working well for her 6th and 3rd grader.

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New Books: The Mad Wolf’s Daughter
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New Books: The Mad Wolf’s Daughter
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Shelli reviews this medieval fantasy, in which a girl learns to channel her inner heroine.

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How Can I Make Learning More Hands-On for My Kid Who Loves to Move?
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How Can I Make Learning More Hands-On for My Kid Who Loves to Move?
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My 7-year-old needs to move all the time. That’s fine with me, but I’d love to find a few ways to make movement part of our everyday learning activities.

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Book Review: The Porcupine Year
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Book Review: The Porcupine Year
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Omakayas’s adventures continue as she and her family search for a new home.

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Little Unit Study: Learn More About Libraries
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Little Unit Study: Learn More About Libraries
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Homeschoolers and libraries go together like Junior Mints and popcorn. That’s why a little library unit study makes the perfect homeschool project.

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A Day in the Life: Flashback to Amy's 4th Grade and Preschool
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A Day in the Life: Flashback to Amy's 4th Grade and Preschool
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Here’s what a typical day looked like in our homeschool when the kids were in 4th grade and preschool.

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Last week before fall break! We only have two weeks when we get back, so I thought the students would appreciate getting their history final out of the way. There was a little moment of panic (“surprise final!”), but they had a ton of fun
How is the semester almost over!?!

There’s so much stuff happening behind the scenes, as students work on final projects and we start to weave together all the various threads of learning into something that we can’t wait to talk about.
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