Homeschool Corner: “Student Writing Intensive”
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008My Thoughts On: Institute for Excellence in Writing’s “Student Writing Intensive”
Writing is something that I have always liked to do. However, not everyone does, especially many children. Sometimes children struggle to think of ideas and things to write about. So, what can a parent do?
For this school year, I volunteered to teach a writing class [...]
Homeschool Corner: Word Processing and Writing Achievement
Monday, December 8th, 2008When I was working on my Master’s Degree, I had to complete a field research project. Since I was a school teacher at that time, I was fortunate to be able to study my students I had that school year. The topic I chose was Word Processing. I investigated whether word processing during writing projects [...]
Homeschool Corner - Teaching your Child to Read
Saturday, October 18th, 2008Teaching your child to read can be fun for everyone. Children must learn to read properly. There are some very simple ways that we can not only teach our children to read well, we can also teach them great vocabulary usage.
Teaching Children to Read and Good Vocabulary Tips
Read to them Often. We have all heard [...]
Tuesday’s Mommy Tips - Visual Learning
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008Welcome to our FIRST Tuesday’s Mommy Tips! We would LOVE for you to participate in this weekly blog carnival! Click Here for more information! OK, on to my tip for this week…
Visual Learning
This is for Moms with young children. It does not matter if you homeschool or not. We should be involved in their learning.
When [...]
Homeschool Corner - The Importance of Learning Styles
Friday, August 22nd, 2008I recently finished reading Cathy Duffy’s book: “100 Tops Picks for Homeschool Curriculum.” If you have not read this book, I highly suggest it. Your may even be fortunate enough to be able to borrow a copy from your local library. In her books, she does not only detail some amazing homeschool curricula, but she [...]
