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What comes to mind when you hear the term “unschooling”? • Those crazy people who let their kids run wild and never try to teach them anything. • Kids playing video games all day while their moms look at Facebook. • High schoolers who can’t write an essay to save their lives and have absolutely no hope…
It’s time to party with Sight and Sound Reading! When? July 11 at 3pm ET Where? Hip Homeschool Moms Facebook page How do I join? Just stop by our Facebook page starting at 3pm on July 11 to enjoy lots of conversation with other homeschoolers & for a chance to win great prizes from Sight…
Reading is undoubtedly the most important skill that we homeschoolers teach our children. After all, once reading is mastered, a child can learn about anything under the sun. There’s no limit! My five-year-old son has been working on his early reading skills by learning basic phonics over the last year. We were recently given the…
If I sum my philosophy up into one sentence, I gather that enduring learning/thinking should be (my 4 C’s): conceptual, congruent, creative, and critical. As I teach and learn, I aim to focus on these 4 aspects of learning and mostly in this order. In early education concepts are very important. They help children see…
Need a fun, engaging, and educational website for your kids to sharpen their skills over the summer? Visit MrNussbaum.com! Created by a real public school teacher with experience in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th, grades, MrNussbaum.com is easy to navigate with both grade-level and subject-level navigation. With MrNussbaum.com games, kids can play the crazy…
Hi! My name is Kelly. I want to first of all, thank Hip Homeschool Moms for giving me the opportunity to share about Sweetly Creative with all of you! Sweetly Creative provides digital products such as party collections, stationery, labels and wrappers for treats and more! I began this company just over a year ago…
Common conversation in our car: “Turn right here.” “Turn right?” “No turn left right now.” “Turn left?” “Right.” Aggghhh! The word that is pronounced [rahyt] is not only a homograph, (same spelling, two different meanings), it is also a homophone, and can have more than one spelling (write, right, wright, rite). If write is what…
Recently, while I was on Facebook, I clicked through to a link to a blog post entitled, 18 Reasons Why Doctors and Lawyers Homeschool Their Children. A doctor, who also happens to be a mother, wrote the post and began it by saying, “I’m going public today with a secret I’ve kept for a year…
My nine-year-old son is very creative. He loves to make up and tell a good story. And he really enjoys drawing all of the characters and made up worlds that exist in his fictional tales. His pictures paint beautiful wordless stories that I continue encouraging him to draw. However, this year I asked him to…
I just spent the last few days on what seemed like my death bed only because I cannot remember being that sick in a while. Under normal circumstances, I would have taken some medicine and called it a night each night that I just slept hoping to feel better the next morning. The only problem…
Tools for Education At Caffeinated Rhino, our goal is to make your life easier by providing high quality software tools that organize and simplify homeschool education. I started out the new year with one goal in mind. One resolution. I’ve been working since then to keep it. My resolution was to get more organized. I…
Several weeks ago, a box filled with reading, writing and math curriculum arrived on my doorstep. I was so excited and couldn’t wait to open it up as these core subjects have been on the forefront of my mind more and more lately as the subjects I have dedicated to working on with my boys…
