One of my most pinned posts on my personal blog is Raising a Highly Sensitive Child: Tips to Help You Get Through, and I’ve thought a lot about how I am going to homeschool this highly sensitive child. I am a highly sensitive person and my daughter is also highly sensitive, it has made for some…
I really appreciate picture books that rhyme if it is done well and it doesn’t feel like the rhymes are forced. The words in the books on this list flow so beautiful it compliments the book. These books I can read over and over and not get sick of them, which is a great thing because…
Today I am continuing the series on our practically free grade 1 curriculum, we’ve already covered math and Spanish, and today we are on to music! Check out the rest of the series here: Our (Practically Free) Grade 1 Math Curriculum Our Free Grade 1 Spanish Curriculum Our (Practically Free) Grade 1 Art Curriculum Our (Practically…
As I’ve already mentioned, the start of the school year is the perfect time to teach children about kindness, I mean, any time is, but if you are looking for the extra push, the start of the school year is perfect. Here are some good picture books to teach your children about kindness! SEVEN PICTURE…
Since we love books so much in this house (in case you couldn’t tell) our first homeschool year is going to be largely literature based. As of right now I think our actual language arts program will be fairly unstructured since the goal for grade one language arts is to pretty much teach children how…
Earlier this year I picked out the word encourage for my year and over the months my word has slowly evolved into intention. Part of the reason I wanted to homeschool my children in the first place was to be intentional with our days together and with their education. But while I’ve been trying to be…