Category: homeschool
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Homeschool Field Trip: Apple Orchard
We’ve completed week two of our new homeschool year! Things were business as usual for most of the week — but on Thursday we had our first field trip of the homeschool year, and the very first with our two newest students in tow! I thought I might be getting myself in over my head…
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Socialization is a Bunch of Malarkey
Every homeschool parent has heard some variation of The Question: “What about socialization?” In my first few years as a homeschool mom, I went to great pains to explain all the ways Kathryn interacted with other children. Now further along in my homeschooling adventure, I realize socialization is a bunch of malarkey. Encyclopedia Britannica defines…
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Easing into our Homeschool Year
This week, we celebrated our official First Day of School! For the first time in my eight years of homeschooling, I actually remembered to do a First Day photo, complete with our homeschool mascot! (Who didn’t pose exactly where I wanted, but whatever. It’s still cute!) Easing into the Homeschool year: Even though this was…
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Morning Board and Calendar Time
Back when I worked in a preschool classroom, we did “circle time” every morning. Kathryn was across the hall in another class, doing the same thing. When we began homeschooling for her kindergarten year (7 years ago!), we didn’t bother with continuing circle time because it wasn’t necessary. This year, however, our first grade girl…
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Homeschool Online Hebrew Language Lessons
In June, Kathryn completed two years of mitzvah classes at her dad’s messianic synagogue. Her mitzvah classes included Hebrew instruction, and she enjoyed these lessons so much, she requested to continue to learn Hebrew this school year. I try to follow her interests in homeschooling when possible, but this was a subject I’d have to…