Timelines are a wonderful tool for studying history and understanding how the people and events learned about in other subjects fit together. How you use them may change as your child grows and matures. Here are some tips for using timelines at each educational stage....
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A timeline is a visual representation that shows information in sequence order. Creating a timeline helps your children keep track of the order of historical events, as well as what events were occurring throughout the world at the same time....
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Part of the beauty of homeschooling is meeting a child where he is at, and trying to combine skill-based subjects usually ends in frustration for everyone....
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If you spend much time in homeshool circles, you will hear talk of things like mutli-level curriculum, circle time, and morning basket time. These all bring families together to enjoy learning together. Some do it to knit close family bonds, and others do it to save time. These are definite...
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In the end, the happy couple is not the perfect couple. Instead they are often found working hard at keeping a balance by taking time to evaluate and listen....
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Just as I think I’m getting older and humility is growing in more abundance than pride, the Lord takes me down another avenue in my heart where another variety of pride is found....
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No matter what your family’s approach to education may be, the idea of testing introduces a wide array of thoughts and emotions ranging from pride in a score to frustration over what to do with the results. Fortunately, the latter can be eased simply by understanding what testing accomplishes and...
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With a bit of investment and acknowledgment of the challenges at hand, the tween years can be a stage that heightens a love of learning that exceeds even the excitement of the early learning years....
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Subjects like art and science can be messy and time-consuming. Or it can be tempting to reduce science to reading from a textbook and answering questions. But to really bring science to life for your children, they need to do science....
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Natural science can, in turn, be broken down into numerous branches, all of which tend to interrelate and interconnect in mind-boggling fashion! Fortunately, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what branches are important for homeschoolers....
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Every time we seem to get a routine flowing, something jumps in and throws it off. So, how do we find a rhythm that allows us to stay diligent and steadily moving ahead, even when routine is hard to grasp?...
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Somewhere around ten or eleven, and sometimes extending as far into the teens as fourteen, our children return to a season of rapid growth. They mature physically in ways they have not since transitioning from baby to “big kid.”...
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As I re-read each Bible story, it becomes clear that these stories are the exceptions in life. It’s not an everyday occurrence to see the Red Sea parted, be hunted by a desperate king, to be sold into slavery by your brothers, or to become pregnant while remaining a virgin....
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It encourages me, that if Jesus could set aside being God and take on a form of a servant, trusting God with the outcome, then I too need to set aside my own desires and goals and let God have His sovereign work....
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If you had all the time in the world to invest in a personal development or fine arts program, what activities would you choose? Would you learn an instrument? Take a drama class? Pursue taekwondo? Learn to paint? Write a book?...
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