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Home Education
Six Steps to Plan a Circle Time

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his week at our reading group, we discussed Circle Time. We all shared what we were doing and gave each other ideas and encouragement. It was great fun. In the midst of this, when I shared, I felt my own eyes glaze over, and I wondered if any of you ever feel that way when I post my plans? So today, I thought I’d talk about how to plan Circle Time. By this, I mean some basic principles you can follow. Continue Reading…
March 27, 2014
Home Education
Keeping December Merry and Still Getting Lessons Done

Our first Christmas after we began homeschooling was very blah. In fact, that is all I remember about it — that feeling that it was so. much. less. than it should have been. I think part of that is due to the fact that, during the early years of our married and family life, we always traveled at Christmas time. We participated whatever was happening in the home we were visiting, rather than initiating anything ourselves. That’s fine, as far Continue Reading…
November 25, 2014
Home Education
Record Keeping for Encouragement

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s easy to fall into the trap of looking back and seeing all the negative. When I sit down on my prep day and look back on our week, I’ve got two options. On the one hand, I can immediately notice anything that didn’t get done, or was badly done. {And there’s a place for that, don’t get me wrong.} But still, I have two hands, and on the other one, there is the idea that I can look and see Continue Reading…
September 2, 2014
Seven Quick Takes: From the Mailbag Edition

I am way behind on lots of stuff: projects, blog comments, contact form submissions, and on and on. I’m behind on stuff that has to do with the blog, and behind on stuff that has nothing to do with that blog. May is always crazy for us, and I always end it by being Way Behind on Stuff. Such is life. So one purpose of this edition of Seven Quick Takes is to catch up on some of that… — Continue Reading…
June 6, 2014