Encouragement for  Friday:   “Writing about music ties the languages together through translation.”                                                      …

Tip Number 11. Encourage your student to BE the superhero! Back in 2010, in the throws of educating my four alongside at least two dozen other children, I constantly doubted the path I was forging.  Doubting, that is, until being…

Tip Number 10. Make Good Art! You might ask: How is a language arts connected to music and visual art? Visual art via the craft of graphic design exists in the world everywhere we go. Music, too, is often in…

Tip Number 9. Stay Connected! Sometimes being a teacher is a lonely job, whether we are in the classroom, the hybrid setting, or homeschooling around the kitchen table. From lesson planning to assessing growth, juggling daily lessons and independent work,…

If my now adult children are talking about their homeschool experience, they will always say something like, “We homeschooled ourselves.” I used to get offended and prickly. I’m older now, and have done some thinking about this analysis. The truth…

Tip Number 7. Purchase Well! Can you believe it’s that time of year when we teachers begin planning forward? There are two ways to purchase your complete English Language Arts materials for the coming 2024/25 school year: One. Our Grade…

Tip Number 6. Play! Last year, around the campfire, we shared ideas about adding playfulness into your kindergarten and 1st grade routine. This tip bears repeating! Kindergarten Once students understand that each of the 26 letters of the alphabet have…

Never be afraid to ask questions! You can teach your children. You can teach them well! We’ve developed tools to help you and your students succeed.  However, when it comes to early English Language Arts, the vast array of terms…

We never planned on homeschooling. Then suddenly our first child was getting closer to school age and the big question hung over our heads, “Where does she go to school?” We were in our first small starter home, the last…

Victor Hugo’s words were always in eyeshot when I was raising and educating my children: “He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze…