Over the 15 years I was a piano teacher, I heard this question "Should I force my child to take piano lessons?" from parents on a regular basis. Unfortunately there's not a one-size-fits-all answer. What's right for one family may not be for another. But let me share my thoughts on the issue. "How would you […]
Interactive Tutorial for Learning the U.S. Postal Abbreviations
I have added an interactive tutorial to help your students learn the postal abbreviations. I have this thing about postal abbreviations. For some strange reason I think that having children learn them is useful — much more useful than learning the state capitals. We see postal abbreviations everywhere: on envelopes, on forms, in headlines, on news […]
How a Bill Becomes a Law…in Great Detail
While looking for information on the branches of government today, I found an excellent and thorough explanation of how a bill becomes a law on the USA.gov website. I was even more surprised that the document was written in easy-to-understand English! How Our Laws Our Made is a 65-page document that explains succinctly how the […]
Customizable Homeschool Weekly Assignment Planner
For most of this school year, Jaden (my 8th grader) has been using a weekly assignment planner to help him organize his schoolwork. The planner form has evolved a bit since I first introduced it to him at the beginning of the year, being tweaked weekly until it met both Jaden's needs and my own. […]
How to Get Books for Free
Who doesn't like going to your mailbox and getting free books in the mail? I love it when emails show up in my inbox alerting me that my Swagbucks prizes have posted. Because that means I can go shopping! Here's what just arrived in the mail from my last shopping spree using Amazon.com gift cards I […]
How to Test for Divisibility (Free Divisibility Test Chart)
Lately Joely's been working on finding common factors in her math curriculum. She knows how to do short division already, which makes it quick and easy for her to find factors, but sometimes it's helpful to know ahead of time whether a number is divisible by a certain factor or not. We've talked about how […]
How to Take Control of Your Time!
My good friend Amy (of Blogging With Amy fame) has just launched her ebook about organizing your time and managing your schedule. I've already read through the whole ebook, and I've gotta say, it's pretty awesome. And convicting too. Organizing my time — keeping my priorities straight — is definitely something I personally need to work […]
Fighting for our Liberties with Education
Educating our kids history will help them to be able to fight for our liberties that we have here in America. We educate our children to equip them to become responsible adults, to be able to support their families, and to be productive members of society. But if our children grow up to have good-paying […]
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
Last year my husband and 10-year-old daughter participated in NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month. Throughout the month of November, they both wrote a novel from scratch. It was a great learning experience for both of them. This year my 13-year-old and 11-year-old are planning to participate. (EDIT: My 8-year-old has decided to participate this […]
Painless Lessons on Government
Politics can be so confusing. What does it mean to be a Democrat? A Republican? A Libertarian? What does the Tea Party believe? What did the American Founders believe? This is a topic we've been discussing lately at our house. I've been reading aloud the Uncle Eric Series of books to the kids this year, and […]
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