By the time our students reach the middle school years, they are really ready to begin taking a more active role in managing their own time....
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If you are homeschooling a middle schooler and you hit a roadblock, take a look at his or her thought processes. It is possible that allowing your child a few months of cognitive development before tackling a subject could save you both a lot of headaches!...
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In these years, when serious subjects replace fun and games, take joy in the ways that your student puts all the pieces together into a puzzle....
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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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Just as the nickname suggests, children in the middle school and junior high school years are “in between” childhood and the teenage years. These in-between years are full of developmental and cognitive milestones. ...
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Every morning found Mom at the kitchen table with her coffee and her Bible. She kept the coffee that I preferred on hand and invited me to join her at the kitchen table after waking up in the morning. Sometimes we had deep, serious conversations, and sometimes we just chatted...
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I’m not saying you should never buy a textbook, but it shouldn’t be the lifeblood of your program. Use it more to sort of pull concepts together. Reading about science is okay for some of the time. For the other 95% of the time, just have a blast doing science....
Continue readingSometimes it can be hard to know just how much to research or teach about something like the presidency. Here are some suggestions for teaching through each learning stage....
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